Biography

Harvick began racing a way virtually all drivers present clean, within cartage. For decade years until around 1992, Harvick was extremely successful. He raced within NASCAR's AutoZone Elite Division, Southwest Series a portion-half-time around 1992 & until 1995, when completing highschool. He became the good-whale driver inside 1995, becoming "Rookie of the Year" in this series that season.

He so moved as much as NASCAR's Gr& National Section, West Series inside 1997, and within 1998 became champion of that series.

Inside 1999, he raced within a NASCAR Craftsman Truck series, & in 2000, joined the NASCAR Busch Series, camping for Richard Childress and winning three times. Around 2001 Kevin became the Busch Series Champion when too camping good-whale in the Winston Ventral suction cup Series & finishing in the top Ten, a 1st for any driver. Kevaround likewise was a 2002 IROC Champion within his foremost endeavor in a series, winning in dominating fashion at the California Speedway & finishing heavy in the more Iii cases.

For 2001, Childress planned to acquire Harvick into Ventral suction cup by using as much as septenary races around an America Online sponsored third car, number Thirty, within the period of the 2001 year by using plans to dog a fully schedule in 2002. People plans changed & Kevin's career was greatly accelerated, albeit under super tragical circumstances. Dale Earnhardt, world health organization got been Childress's flagship driver as much as that point, was flushed when you took a final lap of the 2001 Daytona 500. It wwhen rumored that the names of drivers were considered as replacements for Earnhardt like Earnhardt's boy Dale Earnhardt Jr., Canadian CART driver Paul Tracy, and NASCAR driver Jeff Burton, who in mid-2004 eventually joined Richard Childress Racing after being unable to find sponsorship at Roush Racing. Within a somewhat controversial move, Childress tabbed Harvick when the replacement. For a total one 2 races subsequently, a cars ran a reverse whiten & blacken scheme (what was melanise became white, & what was white became black), & a pit crew bore generic uniforms, however starting sustaining a third race, it were painted white & red, & Harvick got a white & red uniform, when the pit crew saved the traditional GM Goodwrench Service + uniforms, & the number changed from either Three to 29.

inside March 11, 2001, Harvick won, in his third Nextel Ventral suction cup event, by narrowly edging Jeff Gordon at Atlanta Motor Speedway by only six 1-thousandths of another (.006), proving to exist as one of a nighest ends around NASCAR history since a introduction of electronic scoring within 1993. That finish resulted inside one of a classic turn television, & ironically established a Mutt broadcast team's hang for calling thrilling ends, which ostensibly has been the a share of their coverage.

Harvick would score his 2nd Nextel Ventral suctiin cup triumph on July 15, 2001 at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Illinois. Altogether, he enjoyed one of the virtually all successful campaigns by a cub inside recent memory by scoring Two triumph, Vi top fives & Xvi top tens. He as well went in to score Cub of the Season honors when securing the Ninth place finish in the 2001 points standings, & score the Busch Series championship.

Finally, 2002 was a year of disappointment for Harvick & a entire Richard Childress organization. Harvick was fined for the post race incident by having Greg Biffle at Bristol Motor Speedway and would late exist as suspended for rough out camping resulting the Craftsman Truck race at Martinsville, Virginia. Nevertheless, Harvick scored his number one Nextel Cup pole position at the Daytona International Speedway and scored his third Nextel Cup triumph at a Chicagoland Speedway. He finished 21st in the 2002 points standings sustaining Single triumph, Quintet top fives & Octet top tens.

Inside 2003, Harvick managed to pay his virtually all successful bid for the championship title, and then far. By owning a addition of crew chief Todd Berrier, Harvick managed to come from either 21st in the points standings to 2d, coming in 234 points of Matt Kenseth by October. Additionally, he scored his quaternary triumph by winning a Brickyard 400 at a noted Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Unluckily, late year wrecks foiled what stand been the conceivable championship. All the same, Harvick finished the firm fifth in the standings by having One triumph, Xi top fives & Eighteen top tens.

Yet, he besides became known for aggressiveness & hard camping. Though he has experienced his part of redo-wrangle by using more drivers, Harvick is non forswearing his feel of humor & charity. This is possibly better exemplified by his 2004 auctioning of the far-famed Matt Kenseth T-shirt, which Harvick wore about a week fallowing an in-track encounter by having the 2003 Winston Ventral suction cup Champion at Pocono Raceway. Takings from either a auction attend Kyle Petty's Victory Junction Gang Camp, a medical camp for tykes & their families accept chronic and/or life-serious unwellness.

Kevaround did non keep around a month he would use liked in 2004, however is searching send on to the 2005 year fallowing expanding his operations to more cars. Besides camping for Richard Childress Racing around two a Ventral suction Ventral suction cup & Busch series, Kevin & his married woman, DeLana, develop ventured into ownership of their have racing operation, starting their have Busch series team by having 2002 Winston Cup Champion Tony Stewart & Tony Raines sharing a camping duties. Fallowing a super successful year within a NASCAR Craftsman Truck series in 2004 by owning the #Sextuplet GM Goodwrench Silverado, Kevin has besides hired fellow Californian Ron Hornaday to pilot the dull 6 GM Goodwrench Chevrolet Silverado for 2005.

Hornaday processed his newly creator lofty around Atlanta over agawithin, when Bobby Labonte was ironically foiled at a finish line of a second NASCAR race in Atlanta Motor Speedway in March 18, 2005. Hornaday, within Harvick's truck, defeated Labonte, around the Morgan-Dollar truck, in the both-lap dash to the finish.

In April Three, 2005, Harvick won the Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway despite starting towards the tail of the field. Harvick won while forgoing a assistance of crew chief Todd Berrier, world health organization was serving the quaternity-week suspension for getting lone quatern gallons of fuel instead of the standard Twenty-two gallons, violating the rule requiring cars qualify using a fully batch of fuel at the UAW-DaimlerChrysler 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. It was Harvick's fifth wwithin in Nextel Ventral suction cup competition, Scott Miller's 2nd win as a crew chief, & Richard Childress Racing's 77th triumph within Nextel Ventral suction cup competition.

Interesting Facts
Harvick is among an elite of drivers to keep around won the race all told trio of NASCAR's premier racing series: Truck, Busch & Ventral suction Ventral suction cup, & has won races as an creator inside Busch & Cup, sustaining the waround within every series in 2005.

Harvick finished third in the virtually all popular driver balloting endure season, by owning sole Jeff Gordon & Dale Earnhardt Jr. getting other votes

Harvick was a handle driver for Electronic Arts' video game "NASCAR 2005:Chase for the Cup".

He is every now and again referred to as "Happy Harvick" & "Harvey." To his critics he is the "Bakersfield Basher."

He became a foremost driver to win Cub of a Month in the NASCAR Nextel Ventral suction cup series & win the Busch Series title in the equivalent month.

Won inside his third run in the Nextel Ventral suction cup series at Atlanta Motor Speedway.

Harvick however races in the Busch Series & on occasion in the Craftsman Truck series, helping in the 2003 Creator's Championship withinside the Busch Series in the cooperative effort using Johnny Sauter in Childress' Reese's #21.

Two Kevin & Delana come from either racing backgrounds. Delana's father John Linville was the short-track driver around Northerly Carolina world health organization as well raced in the Busch Series in the 1980's. A select few of Sarah Fisher's NASCAR regional races use at times been start inside cars co-owned by Harvick & Linville.

Wins in NASCAR Winston/Nextel Cup Competition

2005 - Food City 500 (Bristol) 2004 - None 2003 - Brickyard 400 (Indianapolis) 2002 - Tropicana 400 (Chicago) 2001 - Cracker Barrel Old Country Store 500 (Atlanta), Tropicana 400 (Chicago)