LOUDON, N.H. – Kevin Harvick left Loudon with a chip on his shoulder – and justifiably so.
In Sunday’s race at the Magic Mile, Harvick would gain positions on the track, only to lose them on pit road.
On the opening run, he drove from eighth to fourth, only to have a glitch with a tire changer’s air gun drop him back to 11th for a restart on Lap 41.
On the long green-flag run that followed, Harvick advanced to fourth again but trouble with the left rear during a stop under caution on Lap 101 sent him back to 11th again for a restart on lap 109. During the balance of the race, Harvick ran as high as second but never led a lap.
At the finish, the 2014 series champion was fourth — and he was fuming.
“I’m disgusted, to tell you the truth,” Harvick said. “It’s the same thing every week. We just make mistake after mistake, and until we clean that up we don’t have a chance to win races, putting ourselves in a hole every time we make a mistake.
“It sucks, because the cars are plenty fast, but we are just not executing.”
Greg is the author of "The Nuts and Bolts of NASCAR: The Definitive Viewers' Guide to Big-Time Stock Car Auto Racing" and has been published in major publications across the country including the Los Angeles Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He was also a contributor to Chicken Soup for the NASCAR Soul, published in 2010, and the Christmas edition in 2016. He wrote as the NASCAR, Formula 1, Auto Reviews and National Veterans Affairs Examiner for Examiner.com and has appeared on Fox News. He holds a BS degree in communications, a Masters degree in psychology and is currently a PhD candidate majoring in psychology. He is currently the weekend Motorsports Editor for Autoweek.
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