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Can anyone stop NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Kevin Harvick from winning this weekend at Phoenix International Raceway?<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n
When it comes to racing and winning at Phoenix, no driver is as dominate as Harvick on the Arizona oval.<\/p>\n
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Kevin Harvick, driver of the #4 Jimmy John’s Chevrolet, speaks to the media during a press conference prior to practice for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Good Sam 500 at Phoenix International Raceway on March 11, 2016 in Avondale, Arizona. Photo by Daniel Shirey\/Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n
The driver of the No. 4 Chevrolet has won five of the last seven races, including four of the last five at the one-mile track.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s obviously been a great race track for me personally, but really for the last two years at Stewart-Haas Racing it\u2019s been phenomenal,\u201d said Harvick during a news conference on Friday at PIR.\u00a0 \u201cWe have won three of the four races and got beat by the rain in the last one.\u00a0 All-in-all it\u2019s been a lot of fun to come here.\u00a0 For me personally, this is a fun place to come just for the fact that I started racing here in the mid-90\u2019s and you still see a lot of the same fans and people that followed your career up through the ranks.\u00a0 I love coming out here and look forward to getting another weekend started.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Kevin Harvick, driver of the #4 Jimmy John’s Chevrolet, aims for his eighth victory at Phoenix International Raceway this weekend. (Photo by Jeff Zelevansky\/Getty Images)<\/p><\/div>\n
Harvick has a record seven victories at Phoenix and he will compete for number eight in Sunday\u2019s Good Sam 500 (3:30 p.m. ET on FOX).\u00a0 In addition, he has 1,345 career laps led and his 264 laps led in a single race (Nov. 2014) are both track records.<\/p>\n
Since PIR was repaved in 2011, Harvick has led all drivers with five wins, a 4.6 average finish, 1,028 laps led and a 130.1 driver rating.\u00a0 He is off to a fast start in 2016, posting finishes of fourth (Daytona), sixth (Atlanta) and seventh (Las Vegas).<\/p>\n
I am predicting Harvick will score another victory at PIR on Sunday and he will become the fourth different winner in as many races to score a victory so far this year.<\/p>\n
Kevin Harvick graphic and photos courtesy of NASCAR.<\/em><\/p>\n NASCAR Sprint Cup Series<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Next Race: Good Sam 500<\/strong><\/p>\n The Place: Phoenix International Raceway<\/strong><\/p>\n The Date: Sunday, March 13<\/strong><\/p>\n The Time: 3:30 p.m. ET<\/strong><\/p>\n TV: FOX, 3 p.m. ET<\/strong><\/p>\n Radio: MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio<\/strong><\/p>\n Distance: 312 miles (312 laps)<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Can anyone stop NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Kevin Harvick from winning this weekend at Phoenix International Raceway? I don\u2019t think so. When it comes to racing and winning at Phoenix, no driver is as dominate as Harvick on the Arizona oval. The driver of the No. 4 Chevrolet has won five of the last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[95,16,94],"class_list":["post-718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nascar","tag-kevin-harvick","tag-nascar","tag-phoenix-international-raceway"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racedaysa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Harvick_Kevin2_NSCS_Car_2016.jpg?fit=2952%2C1968","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7hzTZ-bA","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/718\/revisions\/722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}