Kevin Harvick fought from back after starting off last in the track of Bristol, to take to its GM Goodwrench Chevrolet, to the first victory of the season of the Nextel series.
In spite of to have obtained 13º put in the session of qualification of Friday, Harvick was forced to begin the race of Sunday in the last position, when its equipment detected lost of a fluid one in the conduits of the attended direction of the Chevy #29. Since the new rules of NASCAR prevent to the equipment to work on their cars after the qualification, Harvick was penalized with the acquittal of its registry of Friday.
But Harvick, disputing his second race without group leader (Todd Berrier was suspended by four races), made a great scaling located that it in the leadership in turn 433, right after escaping to Greg Biffle. Thence, the pilot of Bakersfield, California, held the pressure of Elliot Sadler, author of pole, until completing the 500 returns to the tiny oval of 0,5 miles of extension.
“How great race! ”, Harvick exclaimed, “Todd spends to long time and effort to give the best possible car me, and I feel sad that it only can see the race by TV.”
The triumph of Harvick, broke its personal mark of 55 races without victories, and in addition it gave to the first triumph to the equipment Richard him Childress, from the victory of Robby Gordon in Watkins Glen of 2003. The last victory of Richard Childress in Bristol, had been in 1999, of the hand of the “Intimidador” Dale Earnhardt.
Tony Stewart, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Dale Jarrett completed best the five classified.
For the champion of the series Kurt Busch, this has been a race for the forgetfulness, after colliding front with the Chevrolet de Jeff Burton. The accident happened in turn 360, when Jimmie Johnson and Jeff Burton was close. The car of Burton was to contramano, and it hit it to Busch completely. Both machines were destroyed after so violent impact.
“It was a very hard blow, it took me by surprise”, it said Busch. “I felt a horrible sensation, never I have had a blow as hard as this.”
Burton underwent slight traumatisms, but in any case, it hoped to Johnson in means of the track and it did signs making responsible it by the shock. Soon one went in ambulance.
“Jimmie is a great conductor, and I know that he did not do it with intention”, Burton said. “We are responsible to drive these cars of races, and when something happens behind the steering wheel, it is our fault.”
The race was stopped during 14 minutes after another spectacular shock in chain, that involved 14 cars. Bobby Hamilton was the person in charge after hitting with the tail of the car of Ken Schrader. The Busch champion, who soon would hit more fort, also became jumbled in the accident.
The nine winning times of Bristol, Rusty Wallace and Jeff Gordon, damaged their cars in this accident, but they managed to make repairs and to follow in race. Finally they arrived 13º and 15º respectively.
Series NASCAR now travels to the track of Martinsville race, to dispute to the Advance Car Parts 500.

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