‘They to me seem like a thing of the past,’ Veteran Kevin Harvick demands NASCAR to shorten the 500-mile races

‘They to me seem like a thing of the past,’ Veteran Kevin Harvick demands NASCAR to shorten the 500-mile races

Kevin Harvick

NASCAR has been bombarded with suggestions to shorten its 500 miles races to reduce the time fans need to invest in watching the whole bay fans and drivers. With the ever-growing safety features and checks, the number of cautions in every race is increasing dragging the race too long.

last month’s race at Atlanta Motor speedway lasted nearly 4 hours, and this past weekend’s Martinsville Speedway race was shortened by 100 laps for the first time owing to the cautions and increased race times. Now the 2014 Cup Series Champion, Kevin Harvick has come forth demanding NASCAR to reduce the age-old 500 miles races.

Find out what Kevin Harvick said

Kevin Harvick
Kevin Harvick

Kevin Harvick said that people have to realize how long the races have been dragged out by the increasing number of cautions put out over the past several years. He went on to say the number of cautions is only going to increase and from a driver’s standpoint, he doesn’t see them wanting to race 500-mile. Kevin Harvick pointed out to the 500 Mile Atlanta race to say how tiring it was for the drivers driving 500 miles with restrictive plates.

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“The thing that people have to realize is that there’s going to be a lot more cautions. It’s not the racing that we’ve had for the past several years with a limited amount of cautions,” Kevin Harvick said.

“There’s going to be a ton of cautions as we’ve seen through all these races. I don’t think, from a driver’s standpoint, that any of us want to race 500-mile races anyway. 500 miles at Atlanta with the restrictor plate, that was a long day. It felt like we were in there forever,” Kevin Harvick added.

Kevin Harvick suggested that the iconic Daytona 500 on the other hand should be having the whole 500 miles but stood on his opinion that the rest of the tracks should see the total distance shortened.

“I think the Daytona 500 needs to be 500 miles. And the Coke 600 could be debated. But the rest of these races, they shouldn’t even allow them to have 500-mile races. They to me seem like a thing of the past,” says Kevin Harvick.

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