Lap 160: There's a huge wreck at the checkered flag, with then-leader Kyle Busch spinning across the finish line. Harvick finishes 27th.

Lap 156: The green flag comes back with five laps to go. Harvick is 25th in the running order.

Lap 154: Harvick is on pit road, hopefully for the last time tonight. He doesn't need gas to make it to the end, but takes some any way in order to have the weight at the back of the car.

Lap 153: Harvick says the "moron" Scott Speed is still driving his damaged car on the track. Harvick is going to pit, take on tires and see what he can get when the race goes back to green.

Lap 152: Scott Speed slaps the wall coming off turn four, to eventually bring out the yellow flag again.

Lap 149: The caution ends with Harvick in 28th place, but he's back on the lead lap.

Lap 148: Harvick feels that his only real shot at gaining positions is for cars in front of him to wreck.

Lap 146: Harvick won't pit, hoping to get a wave around the track to get back on the lead lap.

Lap 145: The caution is out for debris.

Lap 140: Crew chief Gil Martin asks if the car is tighter, and Harvick says that it's about the same.

Lap 134: The car's handling problem has evidently not been fixed.

Lap 127: On the restart, Harvick is 29th. He's still a lap down.

Lap 124: Harvick makes another stop. This is the 11th time he's been in tonight.

Lap 123: Harvick drops onto pit road for tires, fuel and more repairs.

Lap 121: David Ragan spins on the backstretch to bring out another yellow flag.

Lap 114: The car is still tight. "You can't hold it down," Harvick says.

Lap 112: There's a "big metal bar right past the start-finish line." Harvick says it's "freakin' huge."

Lap 110: With 50 laps remaining the race, Harvick has made up a couple of spots from the restart.

Lap 107: On the restart, Harvick is 29th, one lap down.

Lap 105: For the third time during this caution period, Harvick steers his car onto pit road for further repair.

Lap 104: Harvick is back on pit road.

Lap 103: Harvick pits. The stop is a lengthy one, as the crew continues to repair damage sustained in the earlier mishap.

Lap 101: David Reutimann blows a tire, bringing out the caution.

Lap 100: Harvick asks if the crew did anything to fix the car, or if the damaged parts of the splitter were simply cut off. He insists the car may blow a tire because it's so tight.

Lap 99: There might be debris in turn four.

Lap 96: Harvick is, to put it bluntly, still very livid. The car is very tight.

Lap 94: Leader Denny Hamlin catches Harvick between turns three and four, putting him a lap down.

Lap 88: Harvick is 30th, 39.59 seconds behind leader Denny Hamlin.

Lap 87: According to Harvick, the debris in turn one is one. There's more -- or the same piece, maybe -- on the backstretch. Could Harvick possibly be wanting a caution in order to catch up to the pack?

Lap 86: Harvick says there's debris in turn one. He evidently thinks it could be from his own car.

Lap 83: Harvick is still angry. He thinks the crew should've known where the pace car was on the track.

Lap 82: The green flag comes out. Harvick makes it off pit road in time to stay on the track, but when the green flag is shown, he's between turns one and two. Harvick is not happy, and crew chief Gil Martin replies that the car was torn up, that the crew was trying to fix it.

Lap 81: Harvick stops for a third time. He takes on right-side tires this time, but no gas.

Lap 80: The race is now half over. Harvick pits again, his crew still making repairs to the splitter.

Lap 78: Harvick is on pit road for repairs, although pit road is still closed. TNT's coverage of the race focuses on Harvick's crew working on the left front of the car.

Lap 77: Crew chief Gil Martin is on the radio giving instructions on what they'll do to make repairs. The crew will bolt on left-side tires during this stop.

Lap 76: There's a big crash on the backstretch, and Harvick has to drive to the grass to avoid it. He may have a bent splitter. Harvick is immediately critical of drivers who insist on driving the high line, which he says burns their tires off.

Lap 72: Harvick has dropped to 18th, but again, it may be a strategy move on his part to not unnecessarily abuse his tires.

Lap 61: Harvick is ninth on the restart.

Lap 60: Harvicks asks how his tires look. They looked good, and weren't down to the cord.

Lap 59: Harvick comes in for another round of work on his car. It takes 16.2 seconds to cycle through the stop. After the stop, Harvick and Martin discuss the need to take care of the car's tires at the beginning of the run.

Lap 58: Team owner Richard Childress asks what the weather looks like on the radio, and Martin replies that there's some "small stuff" popping up around the track and that a serious storm is remaining to the north. Later, Harvick remarks that David Stremme is lucky, that one of his tires is very nearly flat.

Lap 57: Crew chief Gil Martin says the green-flag run helped because the team has only one fresh set of tires in the pits.

Lap 56: Just before the caution caution comes out for Sam Hornish Jr.'s blown tire, Harvick moves into the top 10.

Lap 55: Harvick's spotter tells him to watch out for Sam Hornish Jr., who's "all over the place."

Lap 50: Now 15th, Harvick is just 3.15 seconds behind leader Tony Stewart.

Lap 48: Harvick has picked his way through traffic, and is now 20th in the running order.

Lap 41: When Harvick is asked if the car is better this run, he replies, "It was good the first two."

Lap 36: Harvick's spotter tells him to "Go low ... go low ... go low," after two cars get together right in front of him. Harvick responds by saying he's got to get away from the "squirrels."

Lap 31: Harvick holds down 27th when the green flag comes back out.

Lap 29: The lead pack rolls onto pit road for the second time. Harvick's four-tire stop lasts 15 seconds flat.

Lap 27: Casey Mears spins in front of Harvick, his Richard Childress Racing teammate, coming off turn two. Harvick wants to undo the changes made on the last stop.

Lap 21: Harvick is on the bottom of the track, with no one behind him in the draft.

Lap 19: Harvick moves to the low side to get around Reed Sorenson.

Lap 18: Harvick has moved to 21st, just 2.44 seconds behind leader Tony Stewart. He's been running the high groove most of the night.

Lap 16: The first double-file restart in a Sprint Cup points-paying race comes with Harvick running 24th.

Lap 14: Harvick brings his car onto pit road for its first stop of the night. He takes on four tires and fuel. The stop lasts 16.8 seconds, after Harvick apparently stalled the car exiting the stall.

Lap 12: Mark Martin spins off turn two, which brings out the night's first caution. Harvick says that he's decent getting into the turns, and just a bit tight in the center and up off. He wants to be fairly cautious on this stop.

Lap 9: Harvick has moved up a few spots, to 36th. It's interesting listening to his scanner on this restrictor-plate track, where traffic is a near-constant. His spotter has been busy, helping Harvick to know where he is in traffic.

Lap 6: Harvick says that his car is tight off the turns. He's now 40th.

Lap 4: Harvick has dropped dramatically through the field, and is now running 39th, 4.44 seconds behind leader Denny Hamlin. Often, though, such a move is made in hopes of staying out of "The Big One."

8:20 p.m.: The green flag is out, and we're racing.

8:19 p.m.: One lap to go to green.

8:13 p.m.: The field makes its way onto the track. Tonight's race is 160 laps, 400 miles.

8:08 p.m.: Kyle Petty gives the command to start engines.

Pre-Race: The car Kevin Harvick will drive in the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway was previously driven by Casey Mears this year in the Daytona 500 and at Talladega. It was also raced seven times last year by Clint Bowyer.

For the second consecutive week, the field was set via the car owner standings. As a result, Harvick will roll off the starting grid 27th.

In 16 Sprint Cup races at Daytona, Harvick has one win (the 2007 Daytona 500), one pole, four top-five and six top-10 finishes.

Richard Childress Racing has a total of 24 wins at Daytona, including the 1998 and 2007 Daytona 500s with Earnhardt and Harvick, respectively, and Earnhardt's 10 straight qualifying-race victories between 1990 and 1999. In 111 points-paying events, the organization has four wins, 10 poles, 27 top-five and 48 top-10 finishes.