NCWTS Recap: Harvick roars past Peters in overtime finish

Ron Hornaday Jr. celebrates winning his fourth NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship after the Ford 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway. (Photo credit: CIA Stock Photo)

By Reid Spencer, Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service
(November 20, 2009)

HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Kevin Harvick roared past Timothy Peters moments after a Lap 135 restart and pulled away to win Friday night’s Ford 200 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race in a green-white-checkered-flag finish at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

The victory was Harvick’s second in a row, his third in six starts this year and the sixth of his career. Matt Crafton finished second and Colin Braun third, as both drivers also passed Peters, who ran fourth, on the final two-lap dash.

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1 48 Jimmie Johnson
2 82 Scott Speed #
3 47 Marcos Ambrose
4 5 Mark Martin
5 14 Tony Stewart
6 29 Kevin Harvick
7 39 Ryan Newman
8 16 Greg Biffle
9 21 Bill Elliott
10 33 Clint Bowyer
11 26 Jamie McMurray
12 2 Kurt Busch
13 44 A J Allmendinger
14 1 Martin Truex Jr.
15 07 Casey Mears
16 78 Regan Smith
17 02 David Gilliland
18 36 Michael McDowell
19 71 Bobby Labonte
20 24 Jeff Gordon

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Jimmie Johnson and Lowe’s extend with Hendrick Motorsports

CONCORD, N.C. (Nov. 20, 2009) – Lowe’s Companies Inc. will continue its successful relationship with Hendrick Motorsports after signing a three-year agreement that secures primary sponsorship of the No. 48 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team in 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Driving the No. 48 Lowe’s Chevrolets will be current points leader and three-time defending Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson, who has signed a five-year contract extension with Hendrick Motorsports that will keep him with the organization through 2015.

Johnson and Lowe’s previously were signed through the 2010 season.

The new pacts build upon a partnership launched in 2001 when Johnson was selected by Hendrick Motorsports to drive for the new Lowe’s-sponsored No. 48 team. After nearly eight full seasons, the driver-sponsor relationship has become one of the most successful in NASCAR.

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Carl Edwards, No. 99 AFLAC Ford: “A Roush Fenway car has won (at Homestead) almost every year that I’ve been doing this at this level. I have real high hopes going in there. We’re just going to go until the last lap and give it a hundred percent with guns blazing. We’re going for the win. Hopefully we’ll get a shot at it.” With three victories, Roush Fenway Racing is suffering its leanest year since 2001 when the team won just twice. The team won 11 races a year ago. Roush Fenway drivers have won six of the past seven races at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Homestead-Miami Speedway is the only active NASCAR Sprint Cup track at which Jeff Gordon has failed to win. Gordon marked Texas Motor Speedway off his to-do list in the spring leaving just the 1.5-mile South Florida speedway in the way of a noteworthy sweep. “A win, you know, is huge, especially at Homestead, because it is the final race. It would be huge for us. We’ve never won there before. I think that everybody feels that way,” said Gordon.

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