NASCAR: Kevin Harvick Wins Real Heroes 400 at Darlington Raceway

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NASCAR was back on Sunday, and Kevin Harvick was also back on top.

Harvick won the Real Heroes 400 at Darlington Raceway -- marking his 50th Cup Series win of his career.

Harvick won comfortably, finishing ahead Alex Bowman. Kyle Busch finished third.

Sunday's race at Darlington marked NASCAR joining UFC as among the first sports to return amid the coronavirus pandemic, which are currently being held without fans.

"I want to thank everybody at NASCAR and all the teams for doing what we do," Harvick said. "I didn't think it would be that different but then we crossed the finish line and it was dead silent. So we miss the fans."

Brad Keselowski won Stage 2 of the race, holding off Bowman and Martin Truex Jr. to give Team Penske their second stage win for 2020.

William Byron won Stage 1 after an incident coming off Turn 2 of the last lap of the stage took Jimmie Johnson out of the lead. Byron busted a tire coming off of Turn 3 on Lap 111 that set him back in Stage 2.

The race was the first to be held on an altered, short-term schedule for NASCAR and teams had limited amount of personnel in order to create a safe public health environment.

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