NASCAR Update: Harvick Wins At Fontana

Five races, five different winners and five different point leaders in the Sprint Cup Series so far this season.  Kevin Harvick passed Jimmie Johnson on the final turn to win yesterday’s race at Fontana, California for his 15^th career win. 

Harvick started 24^th and led only one lap all day.

Johnson settled for second and Kyle Busch who won the Nationwide race on Saturday and had the dominant car yesterday came in third spoiling his chance for weekend sweeps two weeks in a row.

Amazing that Busch was able to put himself in such good shape.  He crashed on his first practice lap Friday forcing him to go to a back-up car, but managed to qualify 8^th anyway.  22 laps into yesterday’s race he was in the lead and led a race-high 151 laps.

Pole sitter Juan Montoya led the first six laps but faded to finish 10^th. 

Carl Edwards came in 6^th and moves up to take over the points lead 9 points up on Ryan Newman.

Martinsville is up on the schedule next Sunday.