Yes, the best car won Sunday’s CampingWorld.com 500 at Phoenix International Raceway — but one-man juggernaut Kevin Harvick had to hold off charging Jamie McMurray on the final restart with 12 laps left to notch his fourth straight victory at the one-mile track.
KEVIN HARVICK, NO. 4 JIMMY JOHN’S/BUDWEISER CHEVROLET SS – RACE WINNER
“The restarts were just really slippery and I learned that in the race yesterday. You had to really maintain your entrance speed and really slide the thing through the center of the corner to try to help keep it pointed up off. But I just want to thank the fans. This is a really special place of all these West Coast race for us to win. I want to thank everybody who helps us on this car and everybody at SHR for uh, man. These things are incredible and really fun to drive.”
Carl Edwards (13th) was the highest-finishing Toyota driver in Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race at Phoenix International Raceway, an event won by Kevin Harvick.
JOEY LOGANO, No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Ford Fusion (Finished 8th) – “That is not quite where we wanted to be there at the end. Todd made a gutsy call there at the end to put four on it and we were back to 16th there with 12 to go and really at that point he was leaving it up to me to be aggressive and we were able to pass a lot of cars to get up to 8th."
KEVIN HARVICK, NO. 4 JIMMY JOHN’S/BUDWEISER CHEVROLET SS – RACE WINNER “The restarts were just really slippery and I learned that in the race yesterday. You had to really maintain your entrance speed and really slide the thing through the center of the corner to try to help keep it pointed up off."
MARTIN TRUEX, JR., NO. 78 FURNITURE ROW/VISSER PRECISION CHEVROLET SS AND GENERAL MANAGER OF FURNITURE ROW RACING JOE GARONE, met with members of the media at Phoenix International Raceway and discussed the teams season thus far, the importance of staying one step ahead of the competition and many other topics. Full Transcript:
"Finally!" Logano exclaimed after taking the checkered flag in Saturday’s Axalta Faster. Tougher. Brighter. 200 NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Phoenix International Raceway.
JOEY LOGANO POST RACE PRESS CONFERENCE – CONGRATULATIONS ON GETTING BACK IN THE WIN COLUMN. “Yeah, it felt good. When I came across the line I thought, finally! It took a long time to get to our next win. We have been finishing second the last four races before this one and we were so close to winning them.
Toyota driver Matt Kenseth (second) recorded the top-finish by a Camry in the NASCAR XFINITY Series (NXS) race at Phoenix International Raceway behind race-winner Joey Logano.
JOEY LOGANO, No. 22 Discount Tire Ford Mustang – VICTORY LANE INTERVIEW “We have been so close here the last four races or so, we have been so close to winning an XFINITY race and it is so great to get Discount Tire in victory lane in their home area. I have been driving this car for a few years but haven’t got Discount Tire in victory lane with me driving, so that is a big deal.”
The 2024 O'Reilly Auto Parts Series champion from Riverton, Illinois, rallied from a slow pit service prior to the final stage to notch his first O'Reilly victory of 2026 at Phoenix.
For the 33rd time in his NTT INDYCAR SERIES career, Josef Newgarden, the pilot of the No. 2 XPEL Team Penske Chevrolet, won a race with Chevrolet power, the most of any driver.
The two-time Indy 500 & IndyCar champion from Nashville, Tennessee, led eight of 250 laps and went from 10th to first through a 32-lap dash to achieve his first IndyCar victory of 2026 at Phoenix.
