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If you thought last Sunday’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race at Atlanta was an aberration on old asphalt, think again.
Kevin Harvick was every bit as dominant on the newer asphalt at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, racking up impressive numbers in winning Sunday’s Pennzoil 400, the third event of the season.
In winning his second straight race and his second at the 1.5-mile track, Harvick finished 2.906 seconds ahead of runner-up and Las Vegas native Kyle Busch. Third-place finisher Kyle Larson was more than 13 seconds back. Paul Menard in ninth-place was the last driver on the lead lap.
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Harvick won for the 39th time in the Monster Energy Series and the 100th time over all three of NASCAR’s national touring series combined. He is tied with Tim Flock and Matt Kenseth for 19th on the all-time Cup victory list and third among active drivers.
The driver of the No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford also took the series lead by three points over second-place Joey Logano and four over third-place Ryan Blaney, who started from the pole on Sunday and led one lap—the first.
“As you look at the last two weeks and our 1.5-mile program in general, it has been really good since I started here at SHR,” said Harvick, a Bakersfield, California, native. “They put a lot of effort into everything we do from every standpoint to get these cars going like they are. It’s great to win on the West Coast for me.”
Harvick led 214 of 267 laps, most ever by a Las Vegas winner. His fastest lap was more than .4 seconds better than the quickest circuit posted by anyone else. Harvick won the first two stages of the race with relative ease, picking up two Playoff points in the process.
With all that, the outcome wasn’t a foregone conclusion after Harvick lost three spots on pit road under caution at the end of Stage 2. He restarted fourth on Lap 167, fell back to fifth and didn’t regain fourth-place until he passed Chase Elliott on Lap 172.
“We had some trouble getting through traffic there,” Harvick said. “That was our worst run, as far as where the car was. I don’t know if it was just the car, tire set, handling, whatever it was. We were just stuck in traffic and needed to come make an adjustment.”
After two more cautions — the first for Jamie McMurray’s brush with the backstretch wallon Lap 176, the second for a hard crash off Turn 4 that eliminated Kurt Busch and Elliotton Lap 183 — Harvick lined up beside eventual seventh-place finisher Logano for a restart on Lap 195 and rocketed into the lead through the first corner.
At that point, it was game over. Kyle Busch led laps 225-230 after Harvick made a green-flag pit stop on Lap 225, but that was Busch’s last glimpse of the lead. Harvick reclaimed first place after Busch came to pit road on Lap 230 and stayed there the rest of the way.
“There was no catching that 4,” Kyle Busch said. “They were on rails today… Certainly would have liked to have been able to run down the 4 or catch the 4 and put on a race, but they were just so far out there and so far the class of the field all day long, I don’t think anybody was really keeping up with them.”
It may be hard to imagine it’s February after this week’s record-breaking high temperatures and rainfall in the Lower Peninsula.
In Grand Rapids, it peaked at 63 degrees — breaking the previous record of 61 degrees set in 1930.
West Michigan isn’t the only warm spot in the region. The remarkable warmth has been felt across the eastern half of the country. In Zanesville, Ohio, temperatures hit a record 78 degrees.
Photo: High temperatures recorded on Feb. 20, 2018.
The warm February temperatures didn’t last long in West Michigan. As of 8 a.m. Wednesday, the 24-hour temperature signals the return of a colder air mass.
Photo: The 24 hour temperature change as of 8 a.m. Wednesday.
As West Michigan bids farewell to the warm temperatures, many communities will be coping with aftermath of record rainfall. In Grand Rapids, 27 of 31 hours recorded measurable rain. It broke the previous record of 2.53 inches of rain set back in 1898.
Photo: The two-day estimated rainfall in West Michigan.Photo: The two-day rainfall totals for the major cities across West Michigan.
West Michigan wasn’t the only place to experience heavy rainfall. Northern Indiana received as much as four to six inches of rain.
Photo: The 48 hour rainfall estimates throughout the Midwest and Mississippi River Valley.
Flood advisories and warnings have been issued for all West Michigan until Thursday morning.
Map: Flood warnings and advisories across the eastern portion of the United States as of Wednesday morning.Map: Flood warnings continues across West Michigan until 7 a.m. Thursday.
More than 30 individual flood warnings have been issued for rivers across West Michigan.
Map: River flood warnings throughout southern Michigan.
As of Wednesday morning, the only location along the Grand River projected to go into the “major flooding” category is Comstock Park, which will likely peak Saturday.
Photo: The forecasted levels of the Grand River in Comstock Park.
It appears Wednesday and Thursday will be dry with the next chance of rain coming Friday. In most cases, the rain should be light.
Map: The European model rainfall forecast for Friday.
There is another chance of rain this weekend when a storm system possible moving through West Michigan, but the track is still uncertain.
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