Kevin won the Toyota/Save Mart 250 on Sunday at Sonoma Raceway, scoring his first win of the season and also the first of his career on the tricky, demanding 1.99-mile road course.
With five laps to go, Harvick held an 8.5-second lead on Clint Bowyer, his Stewart-Haas Racing teammate who was coming fast behind him.
And Harvick already was in fuel-conservation mode, just in case he was going to come up short in his No. 4 SHR Ford.
He didn’t — enabling Harvick to score the 36th victory of his Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series career.