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November 17, 2014 | By John Schwarb
The finale of NASCAR's new Chase for the Sprint Cup delivered everything its creators could have hoped for. Title contenders Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick, Joey Logano and Ryan Newman battled near the front virtually all afternoon on Sunday at Homestead, and Harvick took the Sprint Cup not by just finishing the highest of the four – but by winning the race. Harvick, driving the Stewart-Haas Racing No. 4 Chevrolet, capped a dominant Chase that included three wins and 951 laps led in the 10-race playoff. "These are the moments that you live for," Harvick said. "As you go back in time and you just really think about everything that's led up to this point, this is what we race for." Harvick won five times during the season with his new team and new crew chief, Rodney Childers. At Homestead he survived a three-lap sprint to the finish to top Ryan Newman, who drives for Harvick's old team, Richard Childress Racing. Newman entered the finale without having won a race all year, but the No. 31 Chevrolet was strong all day on the 1.5-mile oval and his runner-up effort outpaced Hamlin (seventh) and Logano (16th). "It was fun from my standpoint to come from where we came from this year," Newman said. "We started the season in Daytona getting spun out in the last five laps to being the runner up for the championship. It was a good rebound for us." Hamlin passed on a final pit stop when other leaders pitted on Lap 249 and didn’t have tires capable of battling for the win in his Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. Joey Logano, who entered the finale with five wins on the season in his Team Penske Ford, saw his hopes end on a Lap 249 pit stop when the car fell off the jack while the team serviced the left side. He restarted in 29th after the disastrous stop. "It's hard to be proud right now after coming home wherever we finished in this race," said Logano, who was bidding to be the third-youngest champion in Sprint Cup history. "This car had a lot of wins and a lot of Top 5s and it doesn't mean a thing." NASCAR Nationwide Series: Kenseth wins finale With a second chance to redeem himself on a restart, Matt Kenseth closed out the Nationwide season with a win at Homestead. Kenseth had not won any NASCAR race since a Nationwide win last October at Kansas, but prevailed on a second green-white-checkered restart by .713 of a second over Kyle Busch and Kyle Larson. On a Lap 199 restart of the scheduled 200, Kenseth lost the lead to Larson but a crash just before Larson took the white flag sent the race into "overtime." "I just had to do a better job than I did the time before, so luckily we got that one last chance to redeem ourselves," said Kenseth, of Joe Gibbs Racing. Chase Elliott, the 18-year-old rookie crowned series champion last week at Phoenix, finished 17th. Kenseth’s win was the sixth consecutive and ninth in 10 races for Sprint Cup regulars. Kenseth’s crew chief, Kevin Kidd, is moving from JGR to Roush Fenway Racing next year to be its director of competition in Sprint Cup. Homestead also marked the last race under the Nationwide banner. Next year the NASCAR XFINITY Series will begin, including the Lilly Diabetes 250 on July 25, 2015, at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.