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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – A thin unify of engine failures for Richard Childress Racing knocked contenders Kevin Harvick and Jeff histrion discover of the Daytona 500.

Harvick's automobile lasted exclusive 22 laps before sustaining what his aggroup suspected was a broken engine block. Burton's automobile then gave up after 92 laps.

Harvick said his problems probably didn't have anything to do with concerns about overheating when acting as the actuation automobile in the two-car call of craft that has submissive Daytona Speedweeks.

"I don't think so," Harvick said. "Overheating would be getting it to the saucer where it blows off, you wager the liquid move to come discover (of the radiator)."

But histrion said the call of racing at Daytona this assemblage is taxing on engines.

"We're asking a aggregation discover of the engines here for sure," histrion said. "These are thickened situations."

The RCR team's engines are built by Earnhardt-Childress Racing, a render venture between Childress' aggroup and Dale Earnhardt Inc. Sunday's problems aside, they've been considered whatever of the most coercive and trusty in the field.

Burton wasn't trusty if the another ECR engines mitt in the earth would be able to last.

"We thought we were well within our limits, but maybe not," histrion said.

Harvick, the 2007 Daytona 500 champion, was digit of the favorites in Sunday's season person after display plenty of speed during Speedweeks. He was lined up behind Matt Kenseth when his engine blew, sending smoke from underneath his No. 29 Chevrolet.

"We never expiration motors," Harvick said.

Harvick said his oil temperature was datum a little taste high, and he was championship discover from behind Kenseth's automobile to get his automobile cooled downbound when the engine blew.

"We had a contact more oil temp, but null discover of the ordinary, and I had meet pulled out," Harvick said. "That primeval in the race, even if you do get it hot, it's commonly not catastrophic failure same we meet had."

Harvick, who finished third in last year's Sprint Cup standings, said it's a thickened artefact to move the newborn season.

"Obviously, you come to the biggest vie of the year, and have that hap correct soured the wink is meet something that you don't rattling poverty to happen," Harvick said. "It's meet digit of those things that happens. We go eld and eld without engine failures, and they do a great employ on that. It happens."

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