Kevin Harvick

Kevin Harvick

status	active
NASCAR Cup Series statistics
Best placement	1. (2014)
Starts Victories Poles Top 10 686 50 31 367
NASCAR Xfinity Series Statistics
Best placement	1. - (2001, 2006)
Starts Victories Poles Top 10 346 47 25th 259
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series statistics
Best placement	12.- (1999)
Starts Victories Poles Top 10 123 14th 4th 62
Data status: May 18, 2020

Kevin Michael Harvick (born December 8, 1975 in Bakersfield , California ), also known as Happy Harvick, is an American racing driver and vehicle owner. He races year-round in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series with the # 4 Stewart-Haas Mustang and part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series with the # 21 AutoZone Chevrolet . In the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series , he drives the vehicles of his own team. He owns the # 33 Camping World Chevrolet Silverado and the # 33 Old Spice / The Outdoor Channel in the Camping World Truck Series and the # 77 Dollar General Chevrolet in the Xfinity Series. The starting number 33 of Ron Hornaday junior won the championship in the 2007 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season . It was Harvick's first title as a team owner. In 2014 he won the NASCAR Sprint Cup.

Career

Beginnings

In 1980, his parents Mike and JoNell bought him a go-kart to finish kindergarten. Shortly after becoming a successful young racing driver, Harvick began part-time driving in the NASCAR AutoZone Elite Division, Southwest Series in 1992 . After becoming a full-time driver in 1995, he rose to the NASCAR West Series in 1997 . In 1998 he became the champion of this series for the Spears Motorsports team .

NASCAR

He made his debut in the Craftsman Truck Series in 1995 at the Mesa Marin Raceway .

In the Nationwide Series , he drove for the first time on October 23, 1999 at the Kmart 200 at North Carolina Speedway . He started the race in 24th and finished 42nd after an engine failure. In the coming season he signed with Richard Childress Racing to drive the # 2 AC Delco car in his first year-round season. He started the 2007 season by winning the Orbitz 300 in Daytona . This was his first win for sponsor AutoZone in the NASCAR Busch Series . His next win was at the New Hampshire International Speedway by winning the Camping World 200 presented by RVs.com . He also won the NAPA Auto Parts 200 on the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve .

Kevin Harvick and Dale Earnhardt, Jr. accelerating out of the pit lane , 2006

In the 2001 Sprint Cup , Richard Childress scheduled him to drive a third car sponsored by American Online . Harvick was to drive the entire 2002 season in the # 30 car. Childress' plans were thwarted by the death of racing legend Dale Earnhardt and so he put Harvick as a substitute for Dale Earnhardt. Three weeks after Earnhardt's death on March 11th, Harvick won his first race in what was then the Winston Cup and now the Nextel Cup at Atlanta Motor Speedway . In the same year he won another race and was rookie of the year and ninth overall. The year 2007 began for Harvick with a relatively large number of changes in its major sponsors, for example it now has the Shell crest, a shell, on the bonnet. He won the first race of the season, the Daytona 500 , and received a prize of one million euros

Kevin Harvick won the 2007 NASCAR Nextel All-Star Challenge . In 2008 he was a good fourth in the Sprint Cup overall standings, but he could not win a race. He started the 2009 season with a win in the Budweiser Shootout . In 2011 he won the Coca-Cola 600 in Charlotte.

In 2014 , he won the overall classification in the NASCAR Sprint Cup in his 14th season.

In 2020, Harvick is overall leader of the NASCAR Cup Series after eight races.

Teams

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series

• Richard Childress Racing: # 4 Stewart-Haas Mustang

Xfinity Series

• Unknown: # 65 Invinca-Shield Chevrolet
• Richard Childress Racing: # 2 ACDelco Chevrolet, # 29 GM Goodwrench / Sonic Drive-In / Rockwell Automation / Powerade / Reese's / Hershey's Chevrolet, # 21 PayDay / Reese's / US Coast Guard / AutoZone Chevrolet
• Kevin Harvick Incorporated: # 33 Outdoor Channel / Dollar General / RoadLoans.com / Bounty Chevrolet, # 77 Dollar General Chevrolet

Camping World Truck Series

• Harvick Racing: # 72 Chevrolet
• Spears Motorsports: # 79 / # 75 Spears Manufacturing Chevrolet
• Liberty Racing: # 98 Porter-Cable Power Tools Chevrolet
• Morgan-Dollar Motorsports: # 47 Kiss (band) | KISS Chevrolet
• Kevin Harvick Incorporated: # 6 Sonic Drive-In Chevrolet, # 92 GM Goodwrench / Yard-Man Chevrolet, # 2 Camping World Chevrolet

Web links

• Official website of the driver
• Driver statistics on racing-reference.info