The weather hasn't been very good this weekend for NASCAR racing in Bristol, TN. Yesterday's Nextel Cup qualifying was rained out. Then this afternoon's qualifying for the Busch Series was...ahem...snowed out. So the cars for the Sharpie Mini 300 lined up by owner's points and that put Kevin Harvick-#21 Coast Guard Chevy on the pole. Then it started snowing again 32 laps into the race and the race was stopped for an hour and a half.
When the race finally got restarted Kevin Harvick dominated for the first half of the race. But he thought he had a flat tire so he pitted during a caution on lap 148. It turned out he had a windshield tearoff on one of his tires. So Harvick had to go to the back. He had a fast car but could he get through traffic. He's have to avoid the usual Bristol bumping and grinding to do that.
Carl Edwards-#60 Ameriquest Ford used pit strategy to get the lead but he eventually wore out his tires and lost the lead to teammate Greg Biffle-#16 Free Credit Report.com Ford. Matt Kenseth-#17 Ameriquest Ford & Kyle Busch-#5 Lowe's/Shop-Vac Chevy were right behind him and Kevin Harvick was coming fast. Biffle had a loose wheel with 12 laps left and finished 28th. Busch took over the lead and was able to hold off Harvick & Kenseth for the win. So that windshield tearoff on his tire cost Harvick the race.
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