Tonight Kevin Harvick is racing within the Late Mannequin Inventory race for the CARS Tour at North Wilkesboro Speedway. It will be a late night time with a delay of about half an hour because of climate, however the future NASCAR Corridor of Famer is able to race.
With all the NASCAR drivers utilizing this time to go on trip and relaxation, Kevin Harvick was kind of pressured into this race. It’s a make-up race from All-Star Weekend that in the end obtained rained out.
Earlier than tonight’s races, Harvick caught up with FloRacing and talked about his expectations. Harvick begins P20 of 33 drivers.
“I realized that I’m sluggish. That’s what I realized probably the most and you understand it’s onerous to return in right here and compete with these guys after they race on a regular basis,” Kevin Harvick advised FloRacing’s Rob Blount. “The observe is clearly quite a bit completely different but it surely’s nonetheless North Wilkesboro and for us, we’re very lucky to have a race observe like this that believes in what we do on the CARS Tour.
“You see that, it is a powerful weekend to return and have a make-up race with a rain date and to have this many automobiles present up it says quite a bit about our rivals and we admire that. So, I’m wanting ahead to tonight and studying and I’ve been in a position to be across the automobiles quite a bit since I obtained executed with my yearly job at FOX and have been in a position to be aside of the groups and be at lots of the races and trying to have some enjoyable.”
At this level, I’m certain Kevin Harvick is simply comfortable to be racing. That rain and lightning was not what anybody wished to see.
Kevin Harvick and CARS Tour wait out the rain
The lightning maintain that had tonight’s occasions stalled was lifted at 8:15 PM EST. The CARS Tour then went by way of pre-race ceremonies. Now we are going to hope that the rain stays out for good tonight so we will take pleasure in racing.
Kevin Harvick will fireplace off P20. He’s beginning one spot again from Connor Zilisch. In actual fact, Harvick was the NASCAR driver who found Zilisch. Whereas Harvick’s son was racing karts, he noticed Zilisch tearing it up in his personal races. Now, the child is on the quick observe to the Cup Sequence.
Harvick and the CARS Tour possession group have executed an important job with the sequence. It seems like it’s a sequence that’s taken severely. The expertise degree is excessive and it’s not straightforward to get a checkered flag in that sequence, particularly as a one-off driver or part-timer.
Tonight, The Nearer might be out of his consolation zone. Nonetheless, he’s nonetheless The Nearer. Kevin Harvick can have enjoyable on the market and it’s going to be an important night time of CARS Tour racing.
