After a large portion of the field was collected in a wreck when Jeff Gordon got into the back of Greg Biffle and spun him sideways, Kevin Harvick was in the lead and scored a back-to-back victory in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Budweiser Shootout at Daytona International Speedway.

The win makes Harvick only the fourth person in NASCAR history to win it in back-to-back years.

“I was sick on Thursday and didn’t even get to see a lap in this thing,” Harvick, who was suffering from the flu this week, said in Victory Lane. “This thing was a rocket.”

Before the caution flag flew securing Harvick’s victory, Biffle was running second when Gordon bumped him and he spun sideways into two of his Roush Fenway Racing teammates Matt Kenseth and Carl Edwards. Bobby Labonte, Ken Schrader, Ryan Newman and Mark Martin were also caught up in the melee.

The late race incident was especially heartbreaking for Edwards who dominated the first 25 lap segment.

The final 50 laps of the 75-lap event was fairly caution filled with Michael Waltrip bringing out a pair of cautions during the race as did Kurt Busch and a handful of others who were caught in the various on-track incidents. Martin suffered a strange problem when his car randomly seemed to shut off under green. He got it going again and was moving back up through the field when he got caught in the final, big wreck.

Kasey Kahne finished 2nd followed by Jamie McMurray and Kyle Busch. Denny Hamlin rounded out the top-5.

BUDWEISER SHOOTOUT RESULTS

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