WATCH: “They just think I’m crazy”- Rodney Childers names his favorite race win with Kevin Harvick

Rodney Childers and Kevin Harvick shared a lot of good old stories on recent podcast appearance.

WATCH: “They just think I’m crazy”- Rodney Childers names his favorite race win with Kevin Harvick

Rodney Childers and Kevin Harvick (Via IMAGO)

Rodney Childers is arguably one of the biggest crew chiefs in the modern history of the sport and is considered among the best minds in the current grid. Most of his accomplishment came with future Hall of Famer Kevin Harvick, who retired from Stewart Haas Racing at the end of the 2023 Cup season.

They won the Cup championship in 2014, the first season they duo had at SHR after the move from RCR. They went on to be consistent championship contenders till the Next-Gen ear started in 2021, where they failed to match previous performances. But still, they got the best out of the cars and remained as the best SHR team.

Recently Kevin Harvick hosted Rodney Childers in his Happy Hours Podcast and discussed about the success they have had together. The No:4 Ford team crew chief was asked to name his best race win ever and he pin-pointed the 2019 Brickyard 400 triumph. They won the race again in 2020. While doing so, he snubbed the 2014 season finale win at Homestead that got him the title.

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Yeah, the boys ask me that all the time, and I still tell them the first Brickyard 400 and they just think I’m crazy. They said it was not Homestead when you won the championship. I said that doesn’t count as winning the race, like that not winning the race. That’s winning the championship.
Rodney Childers said via Happy Hour Podcast.
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Rodney Childers explains why the win is significant

He further discussed why the win is so close to his heart. It has always been in his bucket list to win a race at Indy and when he did win it for the first time in 2019, it was a dominant win. They started on the pole and almost lead all of the laps before kissing the bricks with the trophy on their hands.

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Rodney Childers and Kevin Harvick 
Going to the Brickyard and qualifying on the pole and like leading the whole race and just being dominant. And kissing the bricks and climbing the fence, that’s the biggest race I’ve ever won.
Rodney Childers said.

Childers is getting ready to a new chapter of his life in the 2025 season. He would join Spire Motorsports as the crew chief of the No:7 team and would start from a clean slate with the Chevy team with a new driver.

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