Kevin Harvick Didn’t Take the Chase Elliott-Hendrick Motorsports Route in Bristol – NASCAR Rookie Is the Reason Why

While many NASCAR drivers over the last few weeks have chosen to take part in the Truck Series races ahead of the Cup race in order to understand the track better, Kevin Harvick decided to go the other way. The veteran decided to not take part in the Truck race this weekend, the reason for which he recently explained.

Simply put, the reason he’s not getting inside a truck this weekend is because of Harrison Burton, the Cup series rookie.

Journalist Bob Pockrass reported, “One of the sponsors his management team works with will sponsor a truck ride for KHI driver Harrison Burton, a rookie in the Cup Series.”

“I haven’t felt the need to do any of that stuff this year because there’s so many differences,” Harvick said. “The last thing I want to do is stuff that thing into third gear…in my car, I still have to think through it.”

“I need to be concentrating on what I’m doing in the Cup car just because the younger ones can adapt faster to the memory and doing the things they need to do.”

Kevin Harvick wants NASCAR to shorten the duration of the races

The Stewart Haas Racing driver recently put his thoughts on the table about the long duration of races after the back-to-back lackluster races at Richmond and Martinsville.

“I think the Daytona 500, obviously, needs to be 500 miles. And the Coke 600 could be debated. But the rest of these races, they shouldn’t even allow them to have 500 mile races. They to me seem like a thing of the past,” Harvick said.

Kevin Harvick believes a 500-mile race is “a long time.”

“I think with the stage racing and the things that we have going now and the attention spans of what people want to watch, I think that there should be the Coke 600, the Daytona 500, the Southern 500, the crown jewel events should have those distances,” he said.

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