NASCAR Cup Series

Mistakes. They happen. You just have to learn to overcome them, hopefully not to be repeated. On Sunday I made a mistake, and I know that it will never happen again.

LOUDON, N.H -- Kevin Harvick had a perfect restart with six laps to go and outlasted Matt Kenseth to win the Bad Boy Off Road 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

Surging ahead of Matt Kenseth after a restart with six laps left in the 300-lap event at the 1.058-mile track, Harvick pulled away to win by .442 seconds and joined Chicagoland winner Martin Truex Jr. in the Chase's Round of 12.

Brad Keselowski and the No. 2 Miller Lite Ford Fusion team bounced back from an average performance early in the Bad Boy Off Road 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) to record a fourth-place finish on Sunday afternoon, their second-consecutive top-five finish to start the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup.

Camry driver Matt Kenseth (second) was the top-finishing Toyota driver in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, the second race of the Chase for the Sprint Cup.

Last week a late-race caution helped propel Martin Truex Jr. to victory at Chicagoland Speedway. But on Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway the Furniture Row Racing driver suffered the opposite effect when two cautions in the final 15 laps took him out of contention for the win.

“We struggled this weekend,” Stenhouse said. “At times our Fastenal Ford handled great but we just lacked speed. It’s definitely not the performance we wanted but we will go back and look at everything and bring something different next year. We need to take the next eight races and build off them going into the off season.”

Greg Biffle suffered left-front fender damage in a late-race caution which contributed to his 33rd-place finish. Biffle started 32nd and worked on his No. 16 Performance Plus Motor Oil Ford Fusion all race and just when the handling improved, an incident unfolded on track in front of him. Biffle was able to pit for repairs and earn a 33rd-place finish.

Trevor Bayne, driver of the No. 6 AdvoCare Ford Fusion, was involved in a late-race incident with under 20 laps to go in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) event at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Sunday afternoon, relegating the Roush Fenway Racing driver to a 38th-place finish.

But I think everybody on this team knows that when we get to Chase time, it's time to put everything else aside. It's a balance. I talk about balance all the time, and you have to have that circle of life and balance, and for 10 weeks you have to have the circle of life balances enough to be ready to perform at the top level and give everything that you have and make sure you get all the details because this is about organization, detail and people.