Kevin Harvick breaks silence on Rodney Childers’ Spire Motorsports move 

Kevin Harvick shares his opinion on Rodney Childers’ move to Spire.

Kevin Harvick breaks silence on Rodney Childers’ Spire Motorsports move 

Rodney Childers and Kevin Harvick (Via IMAGO)

The 2024 season has witnessed some major driver and crew moves in the garage after Stewart Haas Racing announced they are ceasing their operations at the end of the year. The team’s biggest asset, Rodney Childers‘ move has been a big talking point in the garage. 

Recently it was announced that the 2014 Cup championship-winning Crew Chief will join Spire Motorsports in 2025 to lead Corey LaJoei’s No:7 team. Now Kevin Harvick, who made an iconic duo with Rodney Childers till retirement in 2023, has shared his take on the move.

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He isn’t surprised like many in the NASCAR nation regarding the move. Harvick has been following Spire Motorsports’ impressive rise and investment over the last few seasons and believes they have a really good project for the future if they are able to convince Childers, one of the modern-day greats, to join them.

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You can’t build towards the future without the right people, and the experience and pedigree that Rodney brings to that scenario is really going to benefit everything that they do at Spire. I think with — I don’t know all the inner workings of everything that shook out, but obviously Rodney liked what they told him, and he’s going to be the crew chief of the No. 7 car.
Kevin Harvick said via Happy Hour Podcast.
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Kevin Harvick explains why Rodney Childers didn’t take a management role 

The future Hall of Fame crew chief had the opportunity to get into a management role with a team after the SHR. Exit, but Harvick pointed out the Childres wasn’t yet ready to do it and knew that once he stepped up from the competition side, there was no coming back for him. 

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Rodney Childers and Kevin Harvick 
Rodney and I have had this conversation. You better — if you take that next step into a management role, and I had this advice given to me, as well. Once you take that step out the door, you better be willing to be done, because you’re not coming back through that door.
Kevin Harvick said. 

With Corey LaJoei, Childers will have the opportunity to prove himself again to the garage in the Next-Gen era and elevate Spire to the next level. It would be interesting to see how the new journey will pan out for the legendary crew chief. 

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