Harvick wins wild one in Montreal

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08/05/2007 - Montreal, QC Canada (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Kevin Harvick captured Saturday afternoon's inaugural NAPA Auto Parts 200 at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in wild fashion after Robby Gordon spun out the race leader. The No.21 Chevrolet crossed the finish line 0.338 seconds ahead of Canadian Patrick Carpentier.

The victory was Harvick's fourth of the season and 30th of his Busch Series career.

Carpentier brought the field to the green flag for a scheduled 74 laps for road-course racing. But on lap six Boris Said successfully moved around both Ron Fellows and Carpentier for the lead.

Many of the leaders made an early stop, but Carpentier stayed out, using a slightly different pit strategy. When everyone had cycled through, Scott Pruett owned the lead just ahead of Said. He did it with a quicker stop, but while Said had four new tires, Pruett got fuel only.

Marcos Ambrose was third, but not for long. He went around Said for second place on lap 21 and was less than one second behind Pruett. Ambrose closed onto Pruett's back bumper.

In the series championship, Carl Edwards came in to the pits on lap 25 and a mechanical problem sent him to the garage for repairs to the rear suspension.

Meanwhile, on lap 27 Ambrose finally got by Pruett as he appeared to let Ambrose go past.

After 30 laps it was Ambrose, who got his start in road-course racing in Australia, and four "road-course specialists" - Pruett, Fellows, Said and Carpentier. Not far behind them were "Mad" Max Papis and Gordon.

When Alex Garcia blew oil on the track on lap 32, it brought out the first caution flag of the race and sent many of the leaders to the pit, excluding Ambrose and Fellows, who stayed out.

Said and Pruett were part of the group that pitted and they returned in 12th and 13th-place, respectively. They both took four tires and it was likely that on the final stop of the day.

Shortly after the restart, Steven Wallace blew his engine and put down a lot of fluid on the track that took a while to clean up. The field passed the halfway point still under caution and it gave some teams a chance to gamble on reaching the checkered flag by stopping on lap 39.

Ambrose and Fellows came in, but needed fuel and tires, while the other leaders took fuel only. Carpentier and Said stayed out to inherit the lead. Harvick and Jeff Burton took fuel only and gained more than eight positions. Pruett restarted in ninth place and Ambrose from 12th. Ambrose punched the gas pedal on the restart and by lap 42 was around Pruett and into seventh place, just behind Harvick. If he could get around Harvick he would be the leader of those who stopped.

Ambrose got around Harvick on lap 43 and though he was sixth overall, he was the de facto leader of the race. As the race leaders peeled off to go to pit lane, Ambrose moved up the charts. He also held more than a one-second lead on Harvick and five seconds on Pruett.

Finally, on lap 48 all those in front of him pitted and Ambrose retook the race lead.

Twenty-five laps to go and Ambrose's lead was 1.731 seconds over Harvick. Harvick was beginning to push and both Pruett and Fellows got past him, but they were five seconds behind Ambrose.

Caution flag number three came out on lap 57 as Jorge Goeters hit the tire wall. The flag erased Ambrose's big lead, but also assured that Ambrose and the other leaders could reach the checkered flag without stopping.

The green flag dropped to restart the race on lap 60 and Ambrose took off. He was the fastest car on the track and his lead was 0.934 seconds with 10 laps remaining. Gordon got around both Fellows and Pruett for second place and then another caution flag, for oil on the track, slowed Ambrose's charge to his first career Busch Series win.

The race would come down to the rookie, Ambrose, and one of NASCAR's best off- road and road course racers, Gordon.

The race restarted with four laps to go and Ambrose got a great jump on Gordon. But Fellows and Pruett didn't make it through turn two and they spun around blocking the track and forcing a caution flag. Meanwhile, Ambrose had spun Gordon out after the caution flags were displayed

NASCAR determined that Gordon should restart in 14th place, but Gordon refused to move from behind Ambrose. NASCAR should have red-flagged the race at that point to force Gordon to move, but instead began the race with Gordon right behind the leader.

Gordon, of course, took out his frustration on Ambrose spinning him out in the second corner. Harvick inherited the lead and after holding off Carpentier was declared the winner.

Gordon continued to claimed he won the race, but Harvick was the actual winner as Gordon had been black-flagged and his final laps weren't counted by the scoring computer.

Carl Edwards finished 30th, but still maintains a stranglehold on the championship.

Next week will be another road-course event, this time at Watkins Glen International in New York.

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