Kevin Harvick using same Michigan chassis from June race

Harvick's chassis this week has won three poles.

Chassis No. 4-929: 

Kevin Harvick will pilot the No. 4 Busch Light/Mobil 1 Ford Fusion built on Chassis No. 4-929 in the Consumers Energy 400 Sunday at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn. Built new in 2016, Chassis No. 4-929 made its debut at Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway in October, when it won the pole with lap of 27.547 seconds at 196.029 mph, led 12 laps in the race, but failed to finish due to a mechanical issue. It made its second appearance in the 2016 season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway, where it won a second consecutive pole with a lap of 30.399 seconds at 177.637 mph. In 2017, Chassis 4-929 made five starts, scoring one pole, two top-five finishes, three top-10s and a lowest finish of 14th at Michigan in June. It won its third consecutive pole with a lap of 29.118 seconds at 190.398 mph in the final round of qualifying in March at Atlanta Motor Speedway, where it dominated the majority of the race, leading 292 of 325 laps before suffering a pit-road penalty that led to a ninth-place finish. It started ninth and finished fourth in the 2017 season finale at Homestead. Its first appearance of 2018, Harvick started 10th and finished 35th at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California after an early race incident with Kyle Larson resulted in extensive damage. In its most recent appearance came at Michigan in June, where Harvick started second, led 49 laps and finished runner-up to teammate Clint Bowyer in a rain-shortened event.

KEVIN HARVICK, Driver of the No. 4 Busch Light/Mobil 1 Ford Fusion: 

What does it take to have a good finish at Michigan? 

“How you finish at Michigan depends on how your day is going. If you’re having a good day, it’s not really hard to tell your guys what you need and everyone is in a good mood. If you’re having a bad day, you can get behind at Michigan really fast. Usually, when you’re hooked up at Michigan, the leaders have clean air and move through traffic pretty well. But, if you’re in the middle of the pack, you find yourself getting behind and going a lap down pretty quickly. You’re going to end up with a green-flag pit stop and a whole bunch of green-flag laps. You just have to be going from the time the green flag drops and keep yourself in position at the end.” 

Do you enjoy racing at Michigan International Speedway? 

“I think we’ve finished really well there over the last couple of years and scored a lot of second-place finishes and top-fives. I learned a long time ago that sometimes those things happen, so it’s better to be on a top-five streak than a 10th -place streak. The good thing about the racetrack is that it has definitely aged and the groove has spread out over the last couple of races, so you have a lot more options than you did a few years ago when they repaved it. Every time we go back there, it gets a little more racey. When we go back this time, there should be lots of room to race and you’ll see lots of speed. As we go through the restarts and traffic and different things, we’ll have to see how it all goes, but it should be interesting.”