Harvick took home the checkered flag at the Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 and led for the final 41 laps.
“It’s been a minute,” Harvick said after the race. “I didn’t think we had the best chance to win today. …
“We had a good car all day, we just never could get track position and stayed out there, ran a couple of good laps. I didn’t want to see that traffic there at the end. It made my car tight.”
Denny Hamlin gave Harvick the most trouble and had a final-lap charge to try and beat Harvick around the turn.
“I at least wanted to give him a fair shot there,” Hamlin said. “Down the backstretch, I kind of let off and I’m like, ‘Well, I’m just gonna pass him on the outside and kind of do this thing the right way,’ and once I had that big run, he just turned right. I would do the same thing. It was a fun race.”
Hamlin, who led 113 laps, ended up finishing second.
Erik Jones claimed third place, Ryan Blaney fourth and Matt DiBenedetto rounded out the top five.
NASCAR results from Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 at New Hampshire:
- Kevin Harvick 2. Denny Hamlin 3. Erik Jones 4. Ryan Blaney 5. Matt DiBenedetto 6. Martin Truex Jr. 7. Ryan Newman 8. Kyle Busch 9. Joey Logano 10. Brad Keselowski 11. Aric Almirola 12. William Byron 13. Paul Menard 14. Alex Bowman 15. Chris Buescher 16. Ty Dillon 17. Michael McDowell 18. Kurt Busch 19. Daniel Suarez 20. Clint Bowyer 21. Ryan Preece 22. Bubba Wallace 23. Corey LaJoie 24. Matt Tifft 25. Ross Chastain 26. Landon Cassill 27. Reed Sorenson 28. Andy Seuss 29. Chase Elliott 30. Jimmie Johnson 31. Quin Houff 32. Austin Dillon 33. Kyle Larson 34. David Ragan 35. Austin Theriault 36. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. 37. Daniel Hemric
