FORT WORTH -- Kevin Harvick will start where he often finishes when the green flag waves for Saturday's O'Reilly 300 Nationwide Series race (2:30 p.m. ET, ESPN2) at Texas Motor Speedway. He can thank Mother Nature, Cale Gale and his entire Kevin Harvick Inc. organization for that.

With qualifying rained out for the fourth time in seven races (Fontana, Atlanta and Bristol also saw the field set by owner's points), Harvick's Chevrolet starts first as the No. 33 team sits atop the owner standings. Harvick had the car in the top spot after the first five races and Gale's eighth-place finish at Nashville two weeks ago allowed the team to maintain that spot.

Finishing first at TMS is certainly nothing new for Harvick, who is looking for what would be a record fifth win at the 1.5-mile facility. Harvick won this race in 2001 and has won the November Nationwide Series event the last three years.

Mark Martin has three Nationwide wins and a Cup win at the track, while Brendan Gaughan has four Craftsman Truck Series victories here. Harvick would like to make history in more ways than one this weekend, as all four of his wins came while driving Richard Childress Racing entries.

Harvick is driving the car he co-owns with wife DeLana in the Nationwide Series this year in an effort to bolster his operation. Tony Stewart and Bobby Labonte have won for KHI in years past, but Harvick has never won in his own car in this series.

"Any time you win a race it is always exciting, but going for a fifth win at the same track means a lot," Harvick said. "To get my first win for KHI and my fifth Nationwide Series win at TMS on the same weekend would be tremendous."

Among the drivers he'll be battling are Stewart and Labonte, not to mention Kyle Busch, Clint Bowyer, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and the rest of a star-studded field that includes 16 Sprint Cup regulars in all. Four of them -- Bowyer, Carl Edwards, David Reutimann and David Ragan -- are running the entire Nationwide schedule and occupy the top four spots in the drivers' standings.

Richard Childress Racing has won the last two races, with Bowyer taking the top spot at Bristol and Scott Wimmer doing so a week later at Nashville. Wimmer, though, will be on the sidelines for this one as Jeff Burton will be in the No. 29 Chevy.

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