Harvick has now won five of the first 12 races of the season including two in a row after he dominated at Dover last week.

This one didn’t come so easy though as he trailed Ryan Blaney and Kyle Larson for much of the race. Even after the race was cleared out by a massive wreck late he was behind Martin Truex Jr. for the lead in the final 14 laps.

NASCAR AT KANSAS: SN’s live blog of the race

But he closed it out with a fast final lap and achieved a pass on the final lap in a win for the first time in Kansas history. It’s kind of amazing considering he was very unhappy with the car for much of the race.

“I still wasn’t really happy with it,” Harvick told FS1 after the race. “I think we can make it a lot better when we come back, but it came down to restarts there at the end and finally got Busch Light into victory lane.”

Blaney won the first stage while Larson won the second, but the two drivers collided with less than 25 laps to go, which cost both of them a chance at their first victories of the season. There were zero cautions through the first 237 laps of the race and then there were three in the span of about five minutes.

Seven cars were taken out in a crash almost immediately after the Larson-Blaney incident. William Byron went hard into the wall, but got out of his car on his own power.

NASCAR results KC Masterpiece 400

  1. Kevin Harvick 2. Martin Truex Jr. 3. Joey Logano 4. Kyle Larson 5. Denny Hamlin 6. Paul Menard 7. Erik Jones 8. Kurt Busch 9. Aric Almirola 10. Kyle Busch 11. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 12. Chase Elliott 13. David Ragan 14. Brad Keselowski 15. Clint Bowyer 16. AJ Allmendinger 17. Austin Dillon 18. Alex Bowman 19. Jimmie Johnson 20. Michael McDowell 21. Kasey Kahne 22. Matt DiBenedetto 23. Darrell Wallace Jr. 24. Corey Lajoie 25. Landon Cassill 26. Ross Chastain 27. Reed Sorenson 28. Daniel Suarez 29. Gray Gaulding 30. Ryan Newman 31. Jamie McMurray 32. Timmy Hill 33. William Byron 34. Chris Buescher 35. BJ McLeod 36. Matt Kenseth 37. Ryan Blaney 38. Ty Dillon