Harvick made a gutsy fuel mileage gamble, staying out on the track during the race's final caution with 25 laps to go -- despite having already exhausted 42 laps of that tank of fuel.

That decision pushed him from ninth to first -- and effectively to Victory Lane.

What might have been most surprising was that Harvick was even around at the finish, because with 70 laps to go, he got down onto the apron in Turns 1 and 2, lost control of his Chevrolet and shot wildly around back out into oncoming traffic. More