“I think it is terrible for our sport,” Kevin Harvick despises racing on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Follow Us
Kevin Harvick
Kevin Harvick who drives the No.4 Ford Mustang for Stewart-Haas Racing as a full-time Cup Series driver was recently questioned on his thoughts about NASCAR possibly returning to the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway after achieving to showcase exceptional racing at the other tracks like Charlotte Motor Speedway, Auto Club Speedway, and Las Vegas Motor Speedway but will be racing on the road course and not on the speedway which is not to the liking of Harvick.
With NASCAR probably eyeing racing at the road course of Indianapolis Motor Speedway, it looks like Kevin Harvick is not on the same page as the organization when it comes to that decision, what supposedly triggered this thought from NASCAR could be extremely positive reviews they’ve received after the All-Star Race at Texas Motor Speedway and the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, however, there is a whole weekend scheduled at the Brickyard this year in August.
“I hate driving into the Brickyard and driving backward down the straightaway,” says Kevin Harvick talks about racing at the IMS road course
Kevin Harvick aka ‘Happy Harvick’ is not so happy when he gets to race on the road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and he says that he doesn’t enjoy it at all he also added that it is dishonorable to the sport which is admired all over the world and yet deciding to race the road course on one of the world’s most iconic tracks instead of the speedway.
“I hate driving into the Brickyard and driving backward down the straightaway and driving the road course, I think it is terrible for our sport and almost degrading to a certain degree that you take the best racing series in the country and take it to what most would consider one of the greatest race tracks in the world but race on the road course,” said Kevin Harvick.
He further added by saying that he is not a huge fan of racing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s road course and that he has no idea what made the Coca-Cola 600 so appealing to everyone and that the IMS would also do the same and they just have to go with it and also since he’ll be racing on a road course, he doesn’t even want to know how his car will perform because he thinks it’s of no use.
“It could be the greatest race on earth. What is the real ingredient that made Charlotte so much better than Texas? I don’t know. I don’t think anybody knows. You just have to do it, then all of a sudden we are running up on a part of the race track that we haven’t run in five or six years. I have quit trying to guess what my car is going to drive like because there is no rhyme or reason to it,” said Kevin Harvick.
He concluded by saying that the decision making isn’t in his reach, if it was it would’ve been a totally different schedule probably, and he tells his son to probably buy it one day and make the schedule as he likes it because he knows that his expertise lies in racing and he also values the decisions of those who are in the power of making them.
“If it was mine, I would do things probably in a different way, but it is not mine, I just drive, It is like I tell my son, make a couple of billion dollars and then you can buy it and decide what the schedule looks like. I think you have to respect that part of it – other people’s decisions that are running businesses to what they think is appropriate,” concluded Kevin Harvick.
With Kevin Harvick standing 11th in the points table with no win, there are chances for him to still get into the playoffs.
Stay Updated!
Sai Karteek Kompally
(240 Articles Published)