LOUDON, N.H. -- Kevin Harvick has thrived as NASCARs version of a Game 7 master, steeling his nerves and flourishing in those win-or-else races that kept a championship push alive.His Chase off to a rocky start, Harvick injected the Chase again with a rousing finish that eliminated a must-win race for him and parked him in the next playoff round.Harvick won Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway to earn a spot in the second round of the NASCAR Sprint Cup playoffs, pulling away off a restart a year after a late loss at the track.Its kind of like an addiction, Harvick said. You just love the rush of being able to be behind and be able to perform and make that happen.Harvick finished 20th in the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship opener which stuck him 15th in the standings. With another weak finish at New Hampshire, Harvick would have faced yet another race at Dover he may have had to win to advance.His lap times in the No. 4 Chevrolet only got faster deeper into the race and he was soon nipping at Martin Truex Jr. and Matt Kenseth at the front of the field. Kenseth dominated the second half of the race and seemed poised to win the New Hampshire race for the third straight time.Harvick, the 2014 Sprint Cup champion, had enough juice in the Chevy to zip past Kenseth with five laps left and join Truex as the drivers locked in the next round. Truex won the Chase opener at Chicagoland and he led a race-high 141 laps at New Hampshire.Harvick ran out of fuel late last year at New Hampshire to lose and faced a win-or-elimination race the next week at Dover. Harvick, who won for the third time this season, rallied for one of the biggest wins of his career to survive another round.He won in a similar situation in 2014 at Phoenix when he needed a victory to advance to the championship race. Harvick won the finale and the championship at Homestead.The last two years weve kind of just worn ourselves out and really stressed out over trying to perform at this level, he said.At Dover, its up to 14 other drivers to worry about a win.Chase drivers took the top eight spots. The 16-driver Chase for the Sprint Cup championship field will be cut to 12 after Dover.Kenseth led 105 of 300 laps and would have clinched with the win, just as he did last season at New Hampshire when he was in perfect position to take advantage of Harvicks fuel foul up. Kenseth appeared to slow down just a bit off the last restart with five laps left, allowing Harvick to race side-by-side before he took off for his 11th win in 100 career starts at Stewart-Haas Racing.It was just a smooth restart. I just didnt want to spin the tires, Harvick said. I dont know what happened to him, or if I just timed it right.Kenseth won the May race at Dover and appears in solid shape to reach the second round.I let Kevin lay back on me, which were supposed to be side-by-side. I should have known better, Kenseth said. I should have just went really late in the zone and wait until he had to get up to my nose because he anticipated it just right and laid back. Plus, I spun the tires and I got beat through one and two and then it was over.Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Kenseth and Kyle Busch were second and third. They were followed by Chase drivers Brad Keselowski, Kurt Busch, Carl Edwards, Truex and Jimmie Johnson.Other Chase results: Kyle Larson was 10th, Joey Logano 11th, Chase Elliott 13th, Denny Hamlin 15th, Austin Dillon 16th, Jamie McMurray 19th, Tony Stewart 23rd, and Chris Buescher 30th.McMurray, Dillon, Stewart and Buescher are the bottom four drivers in the standings.WARNING: Good news for the NASCAR PR machine -- no Chase driver failed post-race inspection.NASCAR issued a stern warning to the Sprint Cup garage before the race not to circumvent what happens with postrace inspection.The sanctioning body decided not to penalize race winner Truex Jr. and Johnson for failing inspection after the opening Chase for the Sprint Cup championship race at Chicagoland Speedway. Both cars failed the laser inspection with infractions that should have drawn 10-point penalties.NASCAR spent the week talking lasers -- after spending a chunk of the season on lug nuts -- instead of celebrating the playoffs.We ask all of you not to put it in our hands because we will react if we have to, NASCAR executive vice president Steve ODonnell said. I think everybody knows what that means. We want to concentrate on the race.All remaining Chase cars will go through laser inspection after only nine were picked after the Chase opener.BELIEVE IT: Danica Patrick finished 18th and actually led nine laps. Her 30 laps led this season are three more than her combined total the last three seasons.WHATS NEXTThe first Chase elimination race takes place at Dover International Speedway. 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"It just felt like it was my time to move on," she said in a phone interview from her hometown of Burlington, Ont. From the moment he arrived in the big leagues as a hard-throwing 20-year-old with an effortless delivery and a devastating curveball , Jose Fernandez was special.The shock and heartache will linger for a while after Fernandez died early Sunday in a boating accident at age 24. The Miami ace was one of the games brightest young stars, his precocious talent matched by an infectious, fun-loving personality.My first impression of Jose was, `This rookie is way too comfortable. The first time that he pitched against us, it kind of caught you off guard because he was so animated, Colorado manager Walt Weiss said. The unwritten baseball rule is thats unacceptable, but it didnt take long before I realized that this guy just had a tremendous joy for playing the game. I was all-in shortly after that first time I saw him pitch.The future seemed limitless for Fernandez, who won National League Rookie of the Year honors in 2013. He missed much of 2014 and 2015 because of Tommy John surgery, but even that didnt appear to be that much of a setback, the way the right-hander was pitching this year.He was the guy for the Marlins who was their face. He was beloved, said Oakland first baseman Yonder Alonso, who went to college at Miami and like Fernandez was born in Cuba.Its a blow to the team, to the city, to everyone. Its a shocking thing, because hes 24 years old. A big-time shock, for sure.Amid the pain of this loss, Fernandezs career is worth celebrating. Here are some of the most illustrious stats and facts from his dazzling four years in the majors:THAT ROOKIE SEASON: Less than two years after being drafted in the first round -- and with no minor league experience above Classs A -- Fernandez made his big league debut in April 2013.dddddddddddd He would go 12-6 with a 2.19 ERA, beating out fellow Cuban Yasiel Puig for Rookie of the Year honors.According to Baseball-Reference.com, Fernandezs pitching was worth 6.3 wins above replacement that year, the fifth-highest total for a pitcher in his age 20 season. Only Dwight Gooden (1985), Bob Feller (1939), Christy Mathewson (1901) and Bert Blyleven (1971) have ranked higher.COMFORT ZONE: Fernandezs starts in his home ballpark were not to be missed. He made 42 of them, going an almost unfathomable 29-2 with a 1.49 ERA. His final two home starts this month were reflective of his career. Against the Dodgers and Nationals -- two division champions -- he pitched 15 scoreless innings, striking out 26.SLUGGING WITH SWAGGER: Fernandez hit .213 in 136 career at-bats with two home runs, the first of which touched off a bench-clearing incident against Atlanta in 2013 when the youngster flipped his bat and admired his prodigious shot to left field. Against the Braves this July, Fernandez came up as a pinch-hitter in the top of the 12th and hit a two-run double to lift the Marlins to a 7-5 win.RARE COMPANY: In his first full season since surgery, Fernandez was an All-Star this year, going 16-8 with a 2.86 ERA and 253 strikeouts. He averaged 12.49 strikeouts per nine innings, the fifth-best single-season mark for a qualifying pitcher. 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