Kevin Harvick
Kevin Harvick
Kevin Michael Harvickis an American professional stock car racing driver. He currently drives the No. 4 Chevrolet SS for Stewart-Haas Racing in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series full-time and the No. 88 Chevrolet Camaro for JR Motorsports in the NASCAR Xfinity Series on a limited schedule. Harvick is the former owner of Kevin Harvick Incorporated, a race team that fielded cars in the Xfinity and Camping World Truck Series between 2004 and 2011. He is the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup...
ProfessionRace Car Driver
Date of Birth8 December 1975
CityBakersfield, CA
You go in there trying to be aggressive and trying to be the one who makes something happen instead of being in the middle of somebody else's mess. You have to try and be at the forefront of what's going on. Usually the aggressor comes out at the good end.
Everyone wants to perform. It's just that there are a lot of things going on that are not going to happen overnight at RCR. They are going to take 6-8 months to a year to reap the benefits of it.
I think when he died it got us into so many different areas of the world that people started to recognize NASCAR. And then it stayed in the mainstream of the press and the people and things just kind of took off from there. The sport was growing and with the massive outlets the media had, when everything happened with his death, I think it just continued after that.
We live that from the day that it happened until right now. Everybody wants to forget, but you can't. You go out and try to do the best you can and carry the legacy forward.
Dover is a tough track to repeat success on. It's so fast. Just the fact that the track is concrete, and you are constantly being thrown towards the wall coming out of the corners, makes this a difficult track for everyone. You have to be aware of everything going on, because things happen quickly and sometimes there's just nowhere to go.
You understand that things can't just happen overnight. They laid out a plan and explained it to us and just said, 'Here is what we want to do, here is where we need to get better,' and we have been chipping away at it ever since.
We would never be at the point we're at if his accident had never happened. Safety is incredible how fast it advanced.
We just have to put 10 more weeks together and get it going for next year. Everybody wanted to be in it, but we gave it everything we had and we'll just keep trying.
We just have to put 10 more weeks together and get it going for next year.
We feel really good coming in here, but you still have to have a little bit of luck.
Everybody wanted to be in it. We gave it everything we had and we'll just keep trying.
Everybody wanted to be in it, but we gave it everything we had and we'll just keep trying,
We had a really good car the first half of the race,
We just had one run today where we got off, we got really tight all of a sudden. Once we got back there in bad track position, it just really killed us because it was really hard to pass. It was a great day for our Chevrolet. We were good all day, just that one run got us back a little bit.