Kevin Harvick’s remarkably consistent year continues as the 2014 Sprint Cup Series champion rolls on in defense of his crown, entering the final three months of the season. With his tenth runner-up finish of the year, last weekend at Bristol, Harvick became the first driver with double-digit second-place finishes in a single season since Bobby Allison in 1972 … Harvick has twenty-one top tens this year in his twenty-four starts, including victories at Las Vegas and Phoenix International Raceway.

Joey Logano is second with eighteen top-ten finishes … With just two races remaining in the regular season, Harvick is actually ahead of his championship pace of a year ago. At this point in 2014, he was seventh in the standings – 124 points behind leader Jeff Gordon on his way to earning the Number-6 seed on The Chase Grid … Next stop on the Sprint Cup schedule is the September 6th Bojangles’ Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. Harvick is the defending winner.