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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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HAMPTON, GA – AUGUST 31: Kasey Kahne, driver of the #5 Farmers Insurance Chevrolet, poses in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Oral-B USA 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway on August 31, 2014 in Hampton, Georgia. (Photo by Jonathan Moore/Getty Images)
HAMPTON, GA – AUGUST 31: Kasey Kahne, driver of the #5 Farmers Insurance Chevrolet, poses in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Oral-B USA 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway on August 31, 2014 in Hampton, Georgia. (Photo by Jonathan Moore/Getty Images) /

Atlanta, 2014

After going over a year without a victory, Kasey Kahne got the job done late at Atlanta in a great battle with Matt Kenseth during a green-white-checkered finish. While he led only 25 of the race’s 335 laps, he muscled his way to the front of the field to end a 39-race win drought.

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Kahne was anything but dominant at Atlanta, but he got the job done when it mattered most. Race polesitter Kevin Harvick, who dominated the race by leading 195 of the 335 laps, ended up as a non-factor for the victory, finishing in 19th place. So Kahne had as good of a chance as any other driver to win the race, and win the race is exactly what he did.

The win was the 17th of his Cup Series career and fifth as the driver of the #5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet. Little did Kahne know at the time, however, that he would wait nearly three years and over 100 races until the next race during which he would take the checkered flag in front of the field before driving to Victory Lane, essentially making the 39-race win drought that he ended with this victory at Atlanta seem like nothing.

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