page_title: Kevin Harvick
section_title: 2013
hierarchical_section_title: Kevin Harvick / NASCAR career / 2013
caption_attribution_description: English: Harvick's 2013 Cup Car at Texas Motor Speedway on April 12, 2013
context_page_description: Kevin Michael Harvick, nicknamed "The Closer" and "Happy Harvick," is an American professional stock car racing driver. He currently competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 4 Ford Mustang for Stewart-Haas Racing. Harvick is the former owner of Kevin Harvick Incorporated, a race team that fielded cars in the Xfinity and Camping World Truck Series between 2004 and 2011. He is the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion and a two-time Xfinity Series champion. Harvick holds the all-time record for Cup Series wins at Phoenix Raceway with nine wins. Harvick is also the third winningest driver in Xfinity Series history with 47 wins. Harvick's 117 combined national series wins currently rank him third all-time in NASCAR history, behind Richard Petty and Kyle Busch respectively.
  Harvick, who began his NASCAR career in 1995, is the third of only five drivers that have won a championship in both the Cup Series and the Xfinity Series, and the fifth of only thirty-three drivers to win a race in each of NASCAR's three national series with over 100 race wins across three national divisions. Harvick also won the 1998 Winston West Series title with five wins that season.
context_section_description: In 2013 at Daytona, Harvick dodged a practice wreck in the last session of practice, and the same in the Sprint Unlimited. Later, he would go on and tie Tony Stewart's and Dale Jarrett's record for wins in the Sprint Unlimited. In his victory burnout, moments after he won his car shut down and Harvick said, "I don't care!". The year 2013 was his last season with RCR, and he said, "I'm gonna finish better than I started!". He also won his Budweiser Duel, and though it seemed as if he would be the first driver to sweep the Sprint Cup events at Speedweeks, he was caught up in a crash on lap 35 of the Daytona 500 and finished 41st. Harvick won his first race of the season at the 2013 Toyota Owners 400, which ended Kyle Busch's four-year winning streak in the spring Richmond race. At Talladega, Harvick was wiped out in the Big One on lap 43 and finished 40th. At the Coca-Cola 600, Harvick took the lead on the last cycle of pit stops and held off Kasey Kahne to win his 2nd 600. In qualifying for the 2013 Hollywood Casino 400, Harvick had a lap speed of 187.480 mph (301.720 km/h) for his first pole position since September 2006. He dominated the race, leading 138 laps, and survived a wreck-filled event to take his third win of the season. Harvick won his fourth race of the year at the Phoenix race, taking the lead at the white flag when Carl Edwards ran out of gas. His tenure at RCR came to an end the following week at Homestead-Miami with a 10th-place finish. Harvick finished the season third in points again, with four wins, nine Top 5s, 21 Top 10 finishes, and one pole position.
caption: Harvick's car at Texas in 2013.
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