Kevin Harvick claims “there’s politics in everything” in the NASCAR garage amidst race manipulation controversies
Ex-NASCAR Cup Series champion Kevin Harvick explained that the extend of politics in the stock car racing series garage.
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The NASCAR Cup Series playoff race at Martinsville last Sunday was marred with controversies surrounding race manipulation. Bubba Wallace, Ross Chastain and Austin Dillon were alleged of employing moves with the motives of helping their respective manufacturers teammates Christopher Bell and William Byron.
Before NASCAR announced the penalties for the trio, Kevin Harvick came in the defense of the drivers explaining what they did was pretty normal as such kind of alliances on the track is part of the garage politics. He admitted that there is politics to everything that is happening on the garage and there is no way to stay away from it.
We openly talk about (race manipulation) at the Superspeedways all the time, right? It’s definitely a manufacturer race. There’s a plan that goes along with it, and the rest of the races are no different. hate to tell you, but if you’re not into the politics of whatever you’re doing, you’re in big trouble, because there’s politics in everything that we do.
Kevin Harvick said via Happy Hour podcast.
He explained that manufactures always talk about their teams helping each other during the briefings and give interactions on how to help each it other. So, Kevin Harvick feels that what happened at Martinsville was the same as what has been happening at every track.
I think, when you look at the things that the manufacturers talk about and the things that the teams talk about, the things that they need to execute and how you help the partners that are within the same brand, it’s not new.
Kevin Harvick added
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Kevin Harvick explains the grim reality of manufacturer politics
While further talking about the reality of garage politics, Kevin Harvick pointed out that the system forces drivers to do things on the track that they might not be comfortable with. But they don’t have any other choices but to oblige to the demands.
This system makes you do things that are uncomfortable and you push them until you get to a point where you get in trouble, whether it’s, you know — have you been doing what you have to do on a restart, doing what you have to do during the race? I mean, there are just things that you have to do.
Kevin Harvick said.
The comments from Harvick explains why driver sometimes does things that seems odd on the track and the fact of the matter is that NASCAR can’t do much to prevent it. Only thing they can do is to prevent it from causing situations as blatant as the one at Martinsville.
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