 Although Denny Hamlin was leading the race near the end , Harvick passed him with eleven laps left . Hamlin , who finished second , said , " He would catch me getting into turn three , I would pull away in three and four . He was quite a bit better than me in one and two . So it was kind of split . It 's pretty much all we had . Obviously the fastest car won today . So it was at least good to see that . " In the subsequent press conference , Harvick stated , " A lot of the places we would classify as places we don 't run good , we 've ran as good at those places this year as we do at the short tracks , road courses , the places you can typically count on us running good . " Richard Childress , the owner of Richard Childress Racing , expressed his enjoyment of winning the race after reminiscing about one of his other victories at the track : 
