Few could have predicted the success Kevin Harvick and Rodney Childers would have in their first season together at Stewart-Haas Racing. He’d won three races in his nine years as a Sprint Cup crew chief before he began working with Harvick. They clinched a berth in the winners-get-in-first Chase for the Sprint Cup, but Harvick finished outside the top 35 in four of seven races. Harvick made sure the team was fully motivated for the task at hand. “I told them at Phoenix that these are the moments you live for,” Harvick said. Harvick had to beat Logano, Denny Hamlin and Ryan Newman — from RCR, Harvick’s previous team — to win the title.

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