Harvick triumphed over 2015 Indianapolis 500 champion Juan Pablo Montoya, 2014
IndyCar champion Will Power, 2014 Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton and 2014
NHRA champion Erica Enders-Stevens for the win.
Last season, Harvick
earned five victories, six runner-up finishes and 14 top-five finishes en route
to his first Cup title, clinched in walk-off fashion in the
season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway with one of his five wins. Harvick also set six track qualifying
records and earned a series-best eight poles.
Harvick’s career
includes 90 wins across NASCAR’s top three series – Cup, Xfinity and Trucks. Now in his 13th year,
Harvick joins a list of stock car drivers who have won the title of ‘Best
Driver’ since the awards began in 1993 including Tony Stewart, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff
Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Bobby Labonte and Dale Jarett.
