NASCAR SPRINT CUP SERIES
QUICKEN LOANS RACE FOR HEROES 500
PHOENIX INTERNATIONAL RACEWAY
TEAM CHEVY DRIVER RACE NOTES & QUOTES
NOVEMBER 9, 2014
KEVIN HARVICK, NO. 4 BUDWEISER CHEVROLET SS – RACE WINNER
WHERE DOES THIS WIN RANK? “Wow, I guess that is what it feels like to hit a walk off in extra innings there. But just want to thank Sprint, all the fans, Budweiser, Jimmy John’s, Outback, Chevrolet, Hunt Brothers, Ditech a new sponsor on board, just everybody who helps us, Mobil 1, everybody at Stewart-Haas. This thing both races here has just been bad to the bone. Everybody on our Budweiser team has done a great job and here we come Homestead.”
YOU HAD THE DOMINATE CAR THROUGHOUT THE COURSE OF THE DAY, BUT HOW WERE THE NERVES IN THE FINAL LAPS OF THE RACE? “I could tell that we were probably going to have to win because everybody was running up in the front of the pack that we were racing against. That was our goal coming in here and that’s really the goal every time you come to Phoenix. This place has just been phenomenal for me personally and for this team this year. To do that in front of all your almost hometown fans and all these people who have been routing for me since the mid-‘90’s is pretty unbelievable. Man, I think this says a lot about our team. I think we have been through a lot this year. They put our backs against the wall; we put it in Victory Lane and get to go on.”
YOU KNEW THERE WAS ONE THING THAT WOULD GAURANTEE YOU A SPOT IN THE CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND AND YOU DID IT IN A BIG WAY
“Yeah, I just have to thank everybody on our Budweiser/Stewart Haas Racing team. We ran about the same way the first time here and came back and the cars have obviously gotten better but we put the same thing underneath it and it had the same amount of speed in practice in it. It’s been a nerve-wracking week you know because we have had the cars all year to get to where we needed to be. As we got out the gate in Martinsville we kind of had that incident there and got behind but you just never know how it’s going to go. You know, you want to go as far as you can and when you are having a season like this and doing the things that we have done this year you just want to finish it out. I am just really proud of everyone at Stewart-Haas Racing.”
TALK ABOUT THE INTENSITY ON THOSE LAST FEW RESTARTS AND WHAT WAS THE STRATEGY
“Well we had a little trouble on our transmission ratios here the time before and Rodney and everybody from Hendrick Engines just dialed everything in this time and we could get a really good launch. Our car’s strength was speed right off the bat. So we just tried to keep it in the same margin and it all worked out.”
WHERE DO YOU RANK THIS WIN IN YOUR CAREER?
“Well, I think you have to stack it up there in the top five for sure. Mostly for the fact that our backs were against the wall and there was really only one way in and that was to win the race. And for us we have been through a lot of moments this year whether they are good or bad. I think they have all been character-building moments to lead up to this point and we can’t take any more momentum going to Homestead than we have going right here. I am really excited for all these guys.”
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