Kevin Harvick preposes “byes” to fix the playoff format
Ex-NASCAR Cup champion Kevin Harvick has made his suggestion to fix the playoff format, to give regular season performance more importance.
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The 2024 NASCAR Cup season saw Joey Logano winning his third championship in an impressive fashion, peaking at the right time during the post-season. But his poor performance in the regular season raised some eyebrows with many in community that believes the consistent performance isn’t rewarded by the current format.
2014 NASCAR Cup series champion Kevin Harvick has shared his proposal to make the post-season better. He wants the regular season champion to get a bye in the post-season instead of the 15 bonus points, till the round of 8. The ex-SHR driver feels the regular season champion can be even put in the final four but doesn’t think it’s right.
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I wish the regular season, first, second, and third place guys, I wish the champ of the regular season was, he was automatically had a bye until the final eight. But he could still, he still had to collect points and do that. Originally, I thought maybe he should be put into the Championship 4 but I don’t think that’s right.
Kevin Harvick said via Title 24 podcast.
The champion driver also suggested byes to be given to the drivers who finishes P2 and P3 in the championship tables. He pointed out that the P2 driver should get direct entry into the R-12 and the P3 driver to get direct entry to R-18. Harvick sees this as an important change to make sure non-playoff races counts in the Chase.
I think he needs to be able to race his way in and still have to gain points and things. And I think the second-place guy should be in the Round of 12 and [third place] automatically in the [Round of] 16. Because at some point we’re going to have more winners than we do spots. We came close to that a couple times over the last few years.
Kevin Harvick added.
Kevin Harvick wants changes to the season finale venue
In the same podcast, the ex-SHR driver also shared some changes that needs to be made to the season finale venue. He pointed out that the final race should be rotated between Homestead, Las Vegas, and Phoenix. This would help to negate the advantage some teams have at the finale venue, Phoenix.
I wish we would rotate the last race. You know, I think Homestead, Las Vegas, Phoenix. I wish there was some sort of three-year rotation that you got to mix that up so it wasn’t, ‘Hey we ran this track last year, we’ve got really good notes. We’re going to be good if we can get there again.’ And it kind of mixes that up so that you can’t just prepare for one track.
Kevin Harvick said.
The comments from Kevin Harvick are something that needs to be looked into and many drivers would agree with the suggestions. It would be interesting to see if NASCAR will try to implement the suggestions made by the future Hall of Famer.
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