After giving one of the most heated interviews of the year after his untimely retirement from the race at Darlington, Kevin Harvick took to Twitter to rant out his frustrations some more. This time around, he even caught the attention of a big name from NASCAR, Dale Earnhardt Jr.
In the post-race interview, Harvick had slammed NASCAR and the Next Gen car left, right, and center for what happened to his car.
“I’m sure it’s just the crappy parts on the race car like we’ve seen so many times,” he said. “We haven’t fixed anything. It’s kinda like the safety stuff, we just let it keep going.”
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“What a disaster. For no reason! We didn’t touch the wall, we didn’t touch a car and here we are in the pits with a burned up car and can’t finish the race during the playoffs because of crappy a** parts.”
But hours after the race got over, Harvick made another point about his incident. This time, he pointed toward NASCAR not throwing the caution just in time.
Naturally, this caught the attention of the fans and some big names from the sport’s community as well.
— Dale Earnhardt Jr. (@DaleJr) September 5, 2022
This was certainly not a quick caution. Look at the bar on the upper left. Takes awhile to go yellow. https://t.co/zIxuRipaXV
— Jeff Gluck (@jeff_gluck) September 5, 2022
Speed of NASCAR putting that caution out while the 4 car was engulfed in flames https://t.co/c2cedHpbyZ pic.twitter.com/FQLkrSFBgJ
— Dawsonville Pool Room (@DawsonPoolRoom) September 5, 2022
It depends on who could be helped most- seems that’s how NASCAR determines exactly when to throw it 🙄
— ᗰᗩᘜIᑕᘜIᖇᒪ ꧁☮︎︎꧂ (@KicklighterTia) September 5, 2022
Glad to see the caution finally come out. pic.twitter.com/uQsmYhkfuC
— Travis Allen (@coachallenHMS) September 5, 2022
Is Nascar even watching the race???? Took way to long for the yellow
— Tyler Hess (@Tyler_Hess_) September 5, 2022
Nah but NASCAR’s leadership up in flames!
— Robyn 🇺🇸🏁 (@robynsracing) September 5, 2022
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Dale Earnhardt Jr’s belief in paranormal activity stems from a burning car
It was an incident from 2004 at Sonoma in which he was left trapped in a burning car that fueled Dale Earnhardt Jr’s belief in ghosts and paranormal beings.
“When I wrecked in the Corvette in 2004 at Sonoma — it caught fire — somebody pulled me out of that car. And I thought that it was a corner worker because I felt somebody put their hands under my armpits and pull me out of the car,” he recalled.
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“I know that when I got to the hospital, I was like, ‘Who pulled me out of the car? I gotta say thanks to this person,’ because it was a hand! It was physical hands grabbing me! I felt it. And there was nobody there.”
Reflecting on this incident, Earnhardt Jr emphasized how he believes in “paranoid activity”. “I do believe in that stuff,” he said.
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“I think that our personalities and our souls have so much — we’re so much more than just blood vessels and bones and muscle, ya know?”