For this week’s throwback, of course, we are going to 2014 when Kevin Harvick won the NASCAR Cup Series championship. This weekend, the Homestead-Miami race is named after Harvick, the 4EVER 400.
Kevin Harvick is returning to Homestead-Miami for the race named after him and with a familiar paint scheme. Before all of that, let’s talk about that 2014 race. It was down to Harvick, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano, and Ryan Newman in the first winner-take-all championship race.
Harvick and his competitors were running 1-4 at one point during the race. It looked like any of the four could get the job done. Jeff Gordon led 160 laps in this race. Harvick and Newman fought it out to the end.
Hamlin faded to seventh. Logano, after a botched pit stop, fell to 16th. It led the way for The Closer, in his first season with Stewart-Haas Racing, to win the NASCAR Cup Series championship.