Phoenix Notes-n-Nuggets:

‘ Kevin Harvick earned his 19th career win in his 429th start.
‘ Kevin Harvick’s last victory came at Richmond in September of 2011, 44 starts ago.
‘ Kevin Harvick won for the third time at Phoenix in his 20th-career start there.
‘ Kevin Harvick’s three victories at Phoenix tie him for second all-time among drivers.
‘ With Kevin Harvick’s triumph on Sunday six of the last eight Phoenix races have been won by drivers breaking winless streaks of 44 or more races.
‘ Kevin Harvick becomes the 15th different winner of 2012.
‘ Kevin Harvick captured his third career Chase victory.
‘ Kevin Harvick posted only his second top-10 finish of the Chase, including his first top-five showing.
‘ Kevin Harvick has now won in nine of his 12 seasons in NSCS.
‘ Kevin Harvick led once for the final 15 laps.
‘ Richard Childress Racing earned its 101st career win including its first victory this year.
‘ Richard Childress Racing won for the fourth time at Phoenix.
‘ Richard Childress Racing’s last win was at Talladega in 2011, 38 races ago.
‘ Richard Childress Racing captured its ninth all-time Chase victory.
‘ Chevrolet won for the 16th time at Phoenix and picked up its 14th victory of 2012.
‘ Denny Hamlin (second) notched his seventh top-five finish in 15 races at Phoenix, finished in the top-two in both races there this season.
‘ Kyle Busch (third) posted his sixth top-five finish of the 2012 Chase, tied with Johnson for the most; led 237 of 319 laps, the most of all drivers, but has now failed to win the last eight races after leading the most laps.
‘ Kasey Kahne (fourth) garnered only his third top-five finish in 17 races at Phoenix.
‘ Ryan Newman (fifth) picked up his first top-five finish since finishing fifth at Chicagoland in September.
‘ Brad Keselowski (sixth) has finished in the top-11 in every Chase race this season; leads the points by 20 over Johnson and will win the 2012 Championship with a finish of 15th or better at Homestead regardless of where Johnson finishes.
‘ Kurt Busch (seventh) has now posted top-10 finishes in consecutive races for the first time this season, finished eighth last week at Texas.
‘ Jimmie Johnson (32nd) had his worst finish of 2012 Chase, lost 27 points to Keselowski and is now 20 points out of the lead.(Racing Resources and Services ‘” Statistics Racing Recall / nascar.com)(11-11-2012)