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
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.
I love restrictor plate racing. It reminds me of going to the go-kart track with your buddy's and just running wide open. But this year has not been much fun. We have had a top-five car at both Daytona and Talladega. We have stayed up front and put ourselves around good cars. It has been very frustrating to be honest. Hopefully we can avoid the wreck this Sunday. I know the (fabrication) shop feels the same way.
I love restrictor plate racing, ... It reminds me of going to the go-kart track with your buddy's and just running wide open. But this year has not been much fun. We have had a top-five car at both Daytona and Talladega. We have stayed up front and put ourselves around good cars. It has been very frustrating to be honest. Hopefully we can avoid the wreck this Sunday. I know the (fabrication) shop feels the same way.
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.
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.