Kevin Harvick News

It would be hard to blame Kevin Harvick if he wanted the NASCAR Busch Series season to go on forever. Harvick dominated the field again Saturday in the O'Reilly Challenge 300 at Texas Motor Speedway, winning for the second straight week and third time in his last four starts. It was the ninth Busch victory of what is already a championship season for the Nextel Cup star. To cap another great day for Harvick, after being told ...

Kevin Harvick has been trying to form his own identity on the racetrack since the first day he sat in the driver's seat previously occupied by Dale Earnhardt. When Earnhardt, NASCAR's most famous driver, died in a crash during the season-opening Daytona 500 in 2001, Harvick was suddenly thrust into the spotlight. Instead of spending that season learning his trade in the Busch Series, with a few Cup races mixed in for experience, the youngster wound up ...

Thirty-one points, and five races left to earn them. Yeah, Kevin Harvick can probably manage that. Not much more than a few formalities stand between Harvick and his second Busch Series championship, after he held off Matt Kenseth in a green-white-checkered shootout on Saturday at Kansas Speedway. Harvick's victory in a caution-filled Yellow Transportation 300 also made him the first Busch driver to win seven races in a season since ...

Kevin Harvick is so hot right now that the competition clearly is concerned _ so much so that Harvick believes a rival intentionally spread false allegations of cheating to rattle his team. After Harvick's win last week in New Hampshire, a Speed TV report claimed that Harvick and teammate Jeff Burton were manipulating their wheels to gain a performance advantage. NASCAR and Richard Childress Racing strongly denied the accusation, but ...

Kevin Harvick turned New Hampshire International Speedway into his personal playground, dominating Sunday's race to take the early lead in NASCAR's Chase for the championship. Harvick, who started from the pole and paced almost every practice session, led 196 of the 300 laps to run away with the first round of the 10-race Chase. He moved to the top of the points standings for the first time in his career, ...

It seems the pressure is definitely off now that NASCAR's Chase for the Nextel Cup championship is ready to begin. Kevin Harvick's main objective Friday was to gain a little revenge on rookie Denny Hamlin, who hit the veteran in the face with a pie during a TV appearance 24 hours earlier. And winning the pole for Sunday's Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire International Speedway was nice, too. ``The biggest goal I had was to get Denny Hamlin,'' ...

ADJUSTED CHASE POINTS: 5,040 TEAM: Richard Childress Racing HOMETOWN: Bakersfield, Calif. AGE: 30 CAR: No. 29 GM Goodwrench Chevrolet CREW CHIEF: Todd Berrier BEST CHAMPIONSHIP FINISH: 5th (2003) OUTLOOK: Harvick is the dark horse of this championship Chase. He's running away with the Busch Series title and will get extra track time running both schedules. A championship would be the first for Richard Childress Racing since Dale Earnhardt's 2001 death. ...

Nothing was easy for Kevin Harvick from his first day at NASCAR's highest level. Thrust into a ride he wasn't ready for and forced to replace the sport's biggest icon, Harvick embarked on a bumpy five-year path pocked with problems he was ill-prepared to handle. He fought with rivals, bickered with teammates and jeopardized his career by challenging NASCAR one too many times. Somewhere along the way, he grew up, became a leader and helped turn around Richard ...

Kevin Harvick made it three straight Busch Series victories on the Richmond track, and moved closer to clinching his second series championship. Harvick led five times for 154 laps in his sixth victory of the season, and will leave Richmond International Raceway with a 619-point lead and just seven races left on the schedule. That means he could skip three of them entirely and still have the lead. The victory in the Emerson 250 was the 23rd ...

Kevin Harvick doesn't particularly look forward to visiting California Speedway twice a year, even though its only 119 miles from his hometown of Bakersfield. The NASCAR Nextel Cup star loves visiting family and friends and having them watch him race, but the two-mile Fontana oval is far from Harvick's favourite place. ``This is probably our worst track and so we haven't been too excited about coming here in the position we've been in,'' said Harvick, who has two ...