This weekend, Harvick will only add to his ironman image.

	Kevin Harvick will be a jack-of-all-trades this weekend at Richmond.

On Thursday night, Harvick was scheduled to race in the Kroger 200 on the Craftsman Truck Series, becoming the only driver to complete the tripleheader this weekend.

"I just like to race, man," Harvick said.

Harvick leads Jason Keller by 316 points for the Busch points lead and stands ninth in the Winston Cup race despite missing the season-opening Daytona 500.

His weekend got off to a rocky start Thursday when he crashed hard into the wall during practice for the Busch race. After a quick visit to the infield care center, he was cleared to race and in a hurry to get back to work.

"I'm pretty energetic, but if I hit the wall many more times like that, there won't be so much energy left in me," he said. "I just like being at the race track and being in the race car. I just enjoy what I do."

All three races this weekend will be run under the lights at Richmond International Raceway, and Harvick said that makes racing more fun.

"It seems like your senses are heightened" at night, he said. "We've all come from running under the lights on a Saturday night. Everything looks pretty cool, the colors, the sparks, the exhaust flames."

Harvick qualified fourth for the truck race and fifth in his backup car for Friday night's Autolite Fram 250 Busch race. Time trials for Saturday's Monte Carlo 400 Winston Cup event will be Friday afternoon.

Jeff Gordon is the defending Monte Carlo 400 champion and leads the points race by 342 over Ricky Rudd. Since last year's race, Gordon has finished in the top 10 in 26 of 36 races, putting him in line for his fourth series championship in seven years.

But Gordon has had enough bad luck since winning his last title in 1998 to know that no lead is big enough with 11 races still to run.

"It only takes a few bad finishes to even things up," he said.

At least one guy who wouldn't mind seeing Gordon stumble a bit is Tony Stewart, who is fifth in the points race -- 498 behind Gordon -- and entering a part of the schedule where he has had success in the past.

After Richmond, the series moves to Loudon, N.H., and Dover, Del., giving Stewart three tracks in a row where he has won in the past. He's also won at Martinsville, where the series heads in early October.

"To have three or four of them right there together, that could be a powerful month for us if we can get on a roll," Stewart said.

The race is the fourth of five Winston No Bull 5 events on the schedule, with five drivers having a chance to earn a $1 million bonus for themselves and a fan by winning.

The eligible drivers are Elliott Sadler, Ward Burton, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Michael Waltrip and Bobby Labonte.