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
It was a good race for us. We got behind here the first four races and we just needed to have a good run. We put ourselves in the position to win and we just came up one spot short.
I told him, I didn't have to prepare for anything like a normal rookie, because I never prepared, never had to think about it. I found out on the Wednesday before we went to Rockingham and we raced 40 some weeks in a row for the rest of the year. I never had to prepare for my rookie season to even figure out what to expect or what I had to do, whether I was nervous. I didn't know how much money I was making. I didn't know how many races I had to go to, I didn't have a contract. I didn't care.
Our chances are slim to none. There's always a chance several guys will have problems. But we decided to go for broke, try to win races and not care about anything else.
The car needed to be loosened up and Shane has been here for a lot of races and knows what he's doing.
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.
First off, it's a great way to get some race practice in before qualifying and the big one the next weekend,
There's something different between having a little bit of beef with somebody and taking the chance of letting someone get hurt.
Right now the main focus is on getting off to a good start. That obviously has to be addressed at some point during the season, but I'm pretty much staying firm on the April date, myself and Richard.
We didn't have the best car all day, but we had the best car when it counted. We led the right (lap) . . . the last one.
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,
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.
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.
We feel really good coming in here, but you still have to have a little bit of luck.