Kevin Harvick had a singular perspective for the 2024 Daytona 500, because it was his first one within the FOX broadcast sales space, fairly than behind the wheel.
The previous NASCAR Cup Collection champion watched as William Byron survived to win The Nice American Race, however he turned his consideration to the wreck that took out a few of the prime contenders, together with Joey Logano, Brad Keselowski and Denny Hamlin, throughout his Harvick’s Completely satisfied Hour present.
“That’s how these speedway races at the moment are. Joey Logano managed the race all day. I felt like he was in management a lot of the day, of doing what he wanted to do for his specific crew, and Ford. Irrespective of the place they had been, he discovered his method again to the entrance. They had been capable of place themselves to save lots of gasoline. That every one modified like that. He was working P2, P3. We noticed it occur all through the duels. We noticed it occur all through the start of the race. We noticed it in numerous conditions, and once you get all the way down to the tip of the Daytona 500, there isn’t anyone who cares about something,” Harvick defined. “They’re all going to do no matter they must do to attempt to win, and so they don’t care about wiping their automobile out, they don’t care about wiping the following man out.
“The pushes simply saved getting more durable and more durable and exhausting, and as quickly as these vehicles turn out to be misaligned just a little bit, when these massive pushes shove them off.”
Moreover, Harvick elaborated on his ideas, relaying his perception that if the wreck didn’t come when it did, it was going to occur regardless, as you can inform by the way in which the sector was racing for a majority of the third stage.
“On the finish, you positively might really feel it. It was only a matter of when it was going to occur,” Harvick added. “They had been three-wide. Pushing and shoving. You simply didn’t know when it was truly going to occur. They tried a number of instances as we led as much as the precise wreck itself. I feel it worn out 18 vehicles. A variety of the nice vehicles that had been up within the entrance. There have been truly — 18 was most likely a decrease quantity than it appeared like on tv, as a result of we had a number of in-car cameras, and a number of massive pictures.
“If you have a look at these in-car pictures, and also you see the driving force’s head begin to wiggle ahead. A variety of the larger pictures come from getting hit behind the automobile, and the whiplash that really comes with the rear influence. However man, there have been some massive, massive hits.”
Alas, Kevin Harvick is aware of “The Massive One” is inevitable at Daytona, and it ended the evening of lots of the sport’s prime contenders, however William Byron survived lengthy sufficient to get the win, and the previous Daytona 500 champion himself is aware of that’s what it takes to win the race.
