Kevin Harvick scored his fifth win of the season, pulling away in overtime to win Saturday’s Cup race at Michigan International Speedway.
Brad Keselowski finished second in the Saturday Michigan Cup results and was followed by Martin Truex Jr., Ryan Blaney and Kyle Busch.
The victory was the 54th of Harvick’s career, tying him with Lee Petty for 11th on the all-time wins list.
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William Byron continues to hold the final playoff spot with five races left in the regular season. He leads Erik Jones by 16 points, Tyler Reddick by 19 points and Jimmie Johnson by 22 points heading into Sunday’s Cup race at Michigan to compete the weekend doubleheader.
The Cup Series completes its weekend doubleheader with Sunday’s race at Michigan International Speedway.
Kevin Harvick seeks to sweep the weekend after his victory Saturday. Michigan native Brad Keselowski, who finished second on Saturday, continues in search of his first career Cup win at his home track.
The top-20 finishers from Saturday’s race will be inverted for the start of the Sunday Cup race at Michigan. That puts Chris Buescher on the pole.
Here’s all the info for the Sunday Cup race at Michigan:
(All times are Eastern)
START: The command to start engines will be given at 4:38 p.m. The green flag is scheduled to wave at 4:47 p.m.
PRERACE: Garage access health screening begins at 8:30 a.m. Drivers report to their cars at 4:20 p.m. The invocation will be given at 4:30 p.m. by Father Geoff Rose, OSFS President St. Francis De Sales School in Toledo, Ohio. The national anthem will be performed by Season 17 winner of “American Idol” at 4:31 p.m.
DISTANCE: The race is 156 laps (312 miles) around the 2-mile speedway.
STAGES: Stage 1 ends on Lap 40. Stage 2 ends on Lap 85.
TV/RADIO: NBCSN will televise the race. Coverage begins at 4 p.m. with Countdown to Green. Motor Racing Network’s radio coverage will begin at 3:30 p.m. and also can be heard at mrn.com. SiriusXM NASCAR Radio will carry the broadcast.
STREAMING: Watch the race on the NBC Sports App. Click here for the link.
FORECAST: The wunderground.com forecast calls for mostly sunny skies with a high of 87 degrees and no chance of rain at the start of the race.
LAST RACE: Kevin Harvick led 92 of 161 laps to win Saturday’s race at Michigan. Brad Keselowski was second. Martin Truex Jr. finished third.
TO THE REAR: Brennan Poole (engine change), Josh Bilicki (driver change), Austin Dillon (backup car), Ryan Newman (backup car), Chris Buescher (backup car), Michael McDowell (backup car), Tyler Reddick (backup car), Aric Almirola (backup car), Ryan Preece (backup car), John Hunter Nemechek (backup car) and Cole Custer (backup car).
STARTING LINEUP: Click here for lineup
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Chris Buescher, who was to have started on the pole for Sunday’s cup race at Michigan (4:30 p.m. ET on NBCSN), will move to the rear because he is going to a backup car.
Eleven cars will go to the rear for the start.
MORE: Sunday Cup race at Michigan: Start time, TV channel, lineup
Those that will move to the rear because of backup cars: Buescher, Austin Dillon, Ryan Newman, Michael McDowell, Tyler Reddick, Aric Almirola, Ryan Preece, John Hunter Nemechek and Cole Custer.
Brennan Poole will go to the rear because of an engine change.
Josh Bilicki will go to the rear because of a driver change (Joey Gase drove the car Saturday) and a transmission change.
Reddick was to have started third. Almirola was to have started fifth.
Once the cars go to the rear, the cars in those lanes will move up. With first, third and fifth (spots on the inside row), it means William Byron, who is seventh on the lineup, will move up to the front row and start next to Clint Bowyer.
Former IndyCar racer Alex Tagliani will drive for Kyle Busch Motorsports in the Aug. 16 Truck race on the 3.57-mile Daytona road course, the team announced Sunday.
Tagliani has made five Truck starts. All five starts have been at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. He finished second in last year’s road course race there for Kyle Busch Motorsports.
“We finished second last year with the No. 51 Tundra at Mosport (CTMP) and now Kyle and everyone at KBM has provided me with an amazing opportunity to go to the road course at Daytona and try to finish one position better and add another banner to the rafters in their shop,” Tagliani said in a statement from the team.
“There are a lot of guys in the Truck Series that have been able to make a lot of laps around Mosport (CTMP) the last few years, which is a challenging road course, so the laps they’ve made there in practice and the race are going to pay dividends at a track like Daytona and it’s not going to be a walk in the park. I love the track and it’s going to be a good battle and exciting for the fans in attendance and watching on television.”
Tagliani will drive the No. 51 truck for KBM.
Tagliani ran in 131 CART races from 2000-07 and in 74 IndyCar races from 2008-16. He drove in the Rolex 24 in 2007 and 2014 at Daytona. He also has eight starts in the Xfinity Series, the last in 2016.
Michigan winners and losers after Saturday’s Cup race:
WINNERS
Kevin Harvick — That’s five wins this season, two in a row at Michigan and eight consecutive top-five finishes this season. He also won both stages Saturday, sweeping the day. He’s ready for the playoffs now.
Choose rule — Good rule change and that added some intrigue before each restart on what lanes drivers would pick. At one point, it made a big impact in helping Chase Elliott take the lead late in the race.
Brad Keselowski — His runner-up finish marked his third consecutive finish of first or second but he still has yet to win at Michigan, his home track. He gets another chance Sunday.
Chris Buescher — He finished 20th but benefits because the top-20 finishers are inverted for Sunday’s race, putting him on the pole for the race.
Martin Truex Jr. — His third-place finish marked his fourth top-three finish in the last five races. He made a nice recovery from making contact with Tyler Reddick early and cutting a tire that forced him to pit under green and lose a lap.
LOSERS
John Hunter Nemechek — Tough day. Had contact with Chris Buescher that spun him and then had tires go down twice, leading to him causing three cautions.
Cole Custer — Crash led to a 34th-place finish and the need for his team to prepare a backup car for Sunday’s race.
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