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NASCAR: Looking back at Kasey Kahne’s six victories at Hendrick Motorsports

By Asher Fair

INDIANAPOLIS, IN - JULY 23: Kasey Kahne, driver of the #5 Farmers Insurance Chevrolet, celebrates with the trophy after winning the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motorspeedway on July 23, 2017 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Brian Lawdermilk/Getty Images)
INDIANAPOLIS, IN - JULY 23: Kasey Kahne, driver of the #5 Farmers Insurance Chevrolet, celebrates with the trophy after winning the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motorspeedway on July 23, 2017 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Brian Lawdermilk/Getty Images) /
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CONCORD, NC – MAY 27: Kasey Kahne, driver of the #5 Quaker State Chevrolet, celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 27, 2012 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
CONCORD, NC – MAY 27: Kasey Kahne, driver of the #5 Quaker State Chevrolet, celebrates in Victory Lane after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 27, 2012 in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images) /

Charlotte, 2012

Kasey Kahne’s first carer victory for Hendrick Motorsports was a big one. In fact, it could not have been bigger, as it came at NASCAR’s longest race, the Coca-Cola 600, just hours after Dario Franchitti won his third career Indianapolis 500 in epic fashion. Kahne started the race in 7th place.

On lap 333 of 400 of the race, Kahne passed Denny Hamlin on the high side and never looked back. After that, he only ever lost the lead of the race during pit stops, when Brad Keselowski, Kevin Harvick and Jeff Gordon all led one lap apiece.

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The race was dominated by Greg Biffle, who led 204 of the race’s laps and maintained his lead in the championship standings. But it was Kahne who led the last 44 laps of the race, including the all-important lap 400, as well as all but three of the final 68 laps to claim his 13th career Cup Series victory and his first ever as the driver of the #5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet.

The win ended a relatively small 12-race win drought, and it was Kahne’s first since he won the second Phoenix race in the 2011 season, which was his second-to-last race with Team Red Bull as the driver of the #4 Toyota.

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