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Delana Harvick has been selected as one of the Top Woman in Business award winners from The Business Journal. Delana is the co-owner of Kevin Harvick Incorporated and runs the day to day operation of the business. KHI has two Truck Series championships to their credit as well as many wins in that series as well as the Nationwide Series.

The Wild-Card Chase slot seemed like an interesting idea, and now we are seeing it play out. Remember that win the Jeff Gordon got back at Phoenix, the second race of the season, it’s looking pretty crucial now as Jeff sits 16th in points but would make the chase with his 1 win. Still a ton of racing to go, but that’s just an example of why winning will become more and more important.

You may remember this past weekend Martin Truex Jr. led a bunch of laps at Richmond, even ran in the top 5 for most of the evening with a solid race car. Unfortunately for the 56 team, they finished 27th…why? A couple of mistakes on pit road, a furious Truex came over the radio threatening to fire the pit crew, and 4 members found that reality yesterday. The new over the wall crew debuts this weekend at Darlington.