CONCORD, North Carolina — Closing a bizarre night in NASCAR’s longest event, Kevin Harvick pulled away from Kasey Kahne on a restart with 11 laps left to win the Coca-Cola 600 Sunday at Charlotte Motor Speedway.



The race was stopped for nearly 30 minutes at one point when a TV camera support rope snapped and landed on the track and in the grandstands. There were 10 people hurt, according to Charlotte Motor Speedway. Three were taken to hospitals, and have been treated and released.



It’s Harvick’s final season at Richard Childress Racing — the only team he’s known since filling the seat of the late Dale Earnhardt in 2001 — before he switches to Stewart-Haas Racing in 2014.



Harvick’s already shown with a victory at Richmond this year he wouldn’t coast through the year and proved that again as he made it through the broken rope, several crashes and Kahne’s dominant machine that led a race-high 156 laps.



There was no other course for Harvick than giving his all, saying he and Childress “have really focused on what’s most important for our sponsors and the guys on this team and this organization.”



Harvick’s pulled off an unlikely win here in 2011, sweeping past an out-of-fuel Dale Earnhardt Jr. on the final lap. “Last race (2011) we came off turn two in third and by the time we got to the start-finish line we had won the race,” he said.



“It was one of those nights,” he said, “where you have to grind it out and keep Kahne finished second, Kurt Busch third and polesitter Denny Hamlin was fourth in his second full race since returning from injury.



Kahne had the strongest car, quickly moving back to the front each time he fell back. He had a large lead and lots of open track when the final caution flag came out with 16 laps remaining.



But Kahne remained on the track while Harvick pitted for two fresh tires. On the restart, Harvick quickly took control and Kahne couldn’t catch up. Ryan Newman was sixth followed by Tony Steward, Clint Bowyer, Martin Truex Jr. and Marcos Ambrose. — AP