Las Vegas, NV (My Sportsbook) - Kevin Harvick overcame two pit road blunders to win Saturday's Sam's Town 300 Nationwide Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Harvick led the most laps with 82, but lengthy pit stops early and midway through the 300-mile race shuffled him back in the field. After charging his way to the front, Harvick passed Denny Hamlin and reclaimed the lead for good with 25 laps remaining.

"The car was really fast, but we definitely got some work to do on pit road," Harvick said.

Harvick had a difficult time keeping his composure following the two bad stops when he radioed back to the crew his displeasure.

"I get mad, and they know how I am and what I expect of them," he said. "I learned a long time ago that you can only gripe about for so long, then you got to go back to driving the car."

Harvick, who drives and owns his Nationwide car, picked up his second victory at Las Vegas and the 35th of his career, which is second to Mark Martin's 48 on the series' all-time race winners list. Harvick's first win here came in 2004.

Hamlin finished second, while Carl Edwards, Brad Keselowski and Brian Vickers completed the top-five. Edwards holds a 41-point lead over Keselowski, as the series takes a two-week break before returning to action on March 20 at Bristol.

Trevor Bayne, Justin Allgaier, Paul Menard, Greg Biffle, who won last year's race at Las Vegas, and Steve Wallace finished sixth through 10th, respectively.

Danica Patrick's day came to an end early when she wrecked just before the halfway point. Patrick bumped into Michael McDowell and then slammed into the wall coming out of turn two. McDowell slid up the track and made contact with her again when he hit the wall.

Patrick headed to the garage with heavy damage to the front end of her car. She ended up finishing 36th.

"The car in front of me was going really slow, and I caught him down the front straight," Patrick said "He was just going slow, so I went to go underneath him as he drifted up to the wall, and then he turned down in. I guess I probably should have seen all the tape on the left rear bumper and said, 'I probably shouldn't be on the left rear bumper.' Sure enough, he turned down and then took us both out."

McDowell damaged his car early in the race when he suffered a flat tire and crashed. He admitted his slow car was to blame for the incident.

"I guess she was coming out on new tires, and the closing rate was so much that I tried to give her the outside," McDowell said. "I sort of committed to it. She drove to the bottom, and I closed the door. It's 100 percent my fault."

Patrick made her last Nationwide start before taking a four-month hiatus to focus on her full-time IndyCar Series schedule. She returns to NASCAR's second-tier series the last weekend in June at New Hampshire.

Last week, Patrick completed the 300-mile race at California, but finished three laps behind in 31st. She was 35th in the February 13 season-opener at Daytona after getting caught up in a 12-car crash during the mid-stages there.

Kyle Busch, who was looking to win his first Nationwide race at his hometrack, ran in the third spot in the closing laps, but Busch brushed the wall and faded from there. He wound up finishing 16th.