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Kevin Harvick blows chance at fourth straight win
Kevin Harvick's bid to win his fourth straight race of the young 2018 cup season came to adrupt end last week at California Speedway and it was all his fault. Let's not call him stupid, but there's not a more appropriate description of a driver trying to bully another 20 laps into a race. Harvick got upset with the way he thought Kyle Larson was racing him, and when he tried to send a message by driving down onto Larson's car, it was Harvick who ended up hitting the way. He'd finish 35th, nine laps down.
The thing that makes Harvick's poor decision even more stupid is that he had a car that was passing several good cars in front of him after starting 10th. His battle with Larson, who had won the past four races on 2-mile tracks, was for fourth-place. The chassis he was using was the one that led 292 laps at Atlanta last season before getting penalized late while leading. It might have been the best car on the track once again. It might have put Harvick in elite company in NASCAR history, but we'll have to just speculate on might have been had Harvick made better choices.
The NASCAR west coast swing is over and now the series moves onto Martinsville Speedway for the sixth race of the season and first on a short track. Martinsville has a flat-half-mile layout and it's a track where other than the two road courses, has the driver being almost an equal component to the car. The car is everything at most tracks with the driver being maybe 30 percent of the equation, but Martinsville is tough
The thing that makes Harvick's poor decision even more stupid is that he had a car that was passing several good cars in front of him after starting 10th. His battle with Larson, who had won the past four races on 2-mile tracks, was for fourth-place. The chassis he was using was the one that led 292 laps at Atlanta last season before getting penalized late while leading. It might have been the best car on the track once again. It might have put Harvick in elite company in NASCAR history, but we'll have to just speculate on might have been had Harvick made better choices.
The NASCAR west coast swing is over and now the series moves onto Martinsville Speedway for the sixth race of the season and first on a short track. Martinsville has a flat-half-mile layout and it's a track where other than the two road courses, has the driver being almost an equal component to the car. The car is everything at most tracks with the driver being maybe 30 percent of the equation, but Martinsville is tough
More on Martinsville to come.......
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