• Kevin Harvick and the No. 29 Budweiser Folds of Honor Chevrolet team took home a 10th-place finish in Sunday’s rain-delayed Quicken Loans 400 at Michigan International Speedway.
• Rain delayed the start of Sunday’s race by approximately two hours and Harvick took the green flag in the second position.
• He dropped back several positions on the initial start and was running ninth when the competition caution waved at lap 25. He told the team that they were going to have to tighten the car up as it was extremely loose. Crew chief Shane Wilson called for major chassis adjustments and fuel when Harvick brought the No. 29 Budweiser Folds of Honor Chevrolet down pit road at lap 27.
• During the stop the team noticed that the dust cap was missing from the left-front hub, so Wilson called Harvick back down pit road again to replace it. While on pit road the team changed right-side tires and pulled a spring rubber. Harvick brought the car down pit road a third time at lap 29 to make sure the new dust cover was tight and the team changed left-side tires. Pitting multiple times to fix the dust cap left Harvick back in the 39th position when the field restarted at lap 30, but he was able to race his way into the top 20 by lap 57.
• The caution flag waved at lap 120 in the midst of green-flag pit stops, catching Harvick a lap down. He was able to take the wave around when the leaders pitted and got back onto the lead lap. The caution flag waved again soon after the field took the green flag and Harvick was scored in the 16th position. Wilson called him to pit road for a fuel-only stop at lap 128.
• Not long after the field took the green flag Harvick had a close call as the No. 11 car spun just below the No. 29 Budweiser Folds of Honor Chevrolet and he had to quickly cut hard to the left to avoid hitting the No. 56 car.
• The team stayed out under the caution and Harvick restarted in the 14th position at lap 140. He gained two spots after taking the green flag and radioed to the team that the car was loose off of the corner at the start of the run. Several laps later he reported that the car was good and getting better.
• Wilson called Harvick in for the No. 29 Budweiser Folds of Honor team’s final pit stop of the day at lap 163. The team changed right-side tires and added fuel. Once the green-flag pit stops cycled through, Harvick was scored in the 11th position. While he noted the car was loose over the course of the final run, Harvick was able to gain another spot and finished 10th.
• Dale Earnhardt Jr. scored the win in Sunday’s race, breaking a 143-race winless streak. Tony Stewart, Matt Kenseth, Greg Biffle and Jimmie Johnson completed the top-five finishing positions.
• Kenseth continues to lead the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver point standings. He holds a four-point margin over Earnhardt Jr. Biffle, Johnson and Denny Hamlin round out the top-five spots. Harvick remains sixth in the standings following the race at Michigan International Speedway. He’s currently 61 points out of first and just 10 markers back from fifth.
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series teams travel to Sonoma, Calif., next weekend for the Toyota/SaveMart 350 at Sonoma. SPEED will have live coverage of Friday’s 90-minute practice at 3 p.m. ET, while qualifying will air tape-delayed at 11 p.m. ET. The teams have two practice sessions on Saturday and SPEED will air final practice tape-delayed at 11 p.m. ET. On Sunday, TNT will provide the live race broadcast starting with the pre-race show at 2 p.m. ET. PRN affiliates and Sirius XM NASCAR Radio will carry the radio broadcast of the event.