Dale Jarrett used a final-lap pass of Kevin Harvick and a hefty push fromಌ Dale Earnhardt, Jr. to win his third Budweiser Shootout Saturday night at Daytona International Spe🤡edway.

Jarrett's last-lap pass capped a thrilling six-lap sprint to the finish after a red-flag period stopped 🃏theꩵ action for approximately 15 minutes to repair a gate that had been damaged in a multi-car crash.

Reflecting on that pass, DJ, said: "I saw as we took off I was able to get by a few cars and I saw the outside line was really going. Once Rusty pulled down that left me out there, but I knew I had Junior behind me and I knew he was wanting to go to the front so he wasn't gonna leave me. He didn't really 🅰have anywhere to go, so I just decided to stay there. I knew I could run wide open.

"The places that Junior was hitting me were the right places to really give me that push. The young man can drive and, again, he had a fast car but we had aꦛ fast car too. It's fun to get bꦰack to Victory Lane."

Dale Jr. and the #8 Budweiser team finished second, while Har🦩v🐓ick was third.

"I did all I could to push him [Jarrett] to the front," added Dale Jr. "I pushed as hard as I could, and then once he was in the lead, it wa💎s his job to hold me off. He's been a good friend to me on and off the track, so if I can't win, I'm happy he could win it, and that I could help him win. You don't win these races alone, and at least I played a role, ya know?

"The top line was where it's at. If you were on the inside lane, you were really crowded with no room for error, but the outside was good. You have a lotta room to work up there. I was in the outside line at the end, but I just wasn't lea൩ding. Maybe one more lap and we couldᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚa had him.

"There was a lot of pushing and shoving and a lot of blocking and weaving around, so it was pretty exciting out there. Some of the guys ended up in the fence, and 🌠some of them crashed their cars up a little bit. Once you weed theꦇm guys out, you could get up there and have some pretty civilized racing."

Jarrett has now won the Budweiser Shoot⛄out three times, more than any driver except the late Dale Earnhardt, who won the season-opening all-star race six times✱.

Dale Jr., who earned $113,000 for the second-place finish, has now finished sixt✨h, second, first and second⛄ in four Shootout starts.