{"id":133504,"date":"2025-09-10T10:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/133504\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T10:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T10:28:07","slug":"kevin-harvick-predicts-winner-for-nascar-bristol-night-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/133504\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Harvick predicts winner for NASCAR Bristol Night Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/pro\/category\/nascar\/news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR<\/a> Cup Series playoffs are in full swing, with Bristol the final race before the Round of 12. A winner there could cement his way into the next round.<\/p>\n<p>So who are some of the NASCAR experts picking to win? Kevin Harvick and his crew on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=41uBhCYpMCA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Harvick\u2019s Happy Hour<\/a> podcast made their picks for this weekend. There was good variety in the picks.<\/p>\n<p>Trailing in the points standings on the podcast\u2019s picks, co-host Kaitlyn Vincie announced her pick first. It\u2019s someone likely already going through to the next round.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s Joey Logano,\u201d Vincie said. \u201cI would love to be right just once.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Logano is currently +21 over the cut line, so while he\u2019s not 100% safe, he\u2019s in a good position heading into the final race prior to the Round of 12. But if he could become a winner, the math gets a whole lot easier. He\u2019d be in.<\/p>\n<p>So who did Mamba Smith, another co-host on the podcast, pick as his winner? Well, that one might surprise you.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we\u2019re going to get our first winner from outside of the playoffs,\u201d Smith said. \u201cI think he is going to get his first win of his Cup Series career. Give me 54, Ty Gibbs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gibbs has had the occasional good race at Bristol, though he has not yet been a winner. He finished P5 two years ago in 2023, then finished P15 in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>A win would certainly take some folks by surprise. That said, it wouldn\u2019t necessarily add to the drama in the Cup Series playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>Harvick\u2019s winner would. The veteran driver turned broadcaster made his pick on the show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think you guys left all the winners on the table there,\u201d Harvick sasid. \u201c(Kyle Larson, Denny Hamlin) or (Christopher) Bell. The 5 popped up last week with some speed that I haven\u2019t seen and Bristol has always been his place. So I\u2019m going to go with Larson.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NASCAR Cup Series playoffs are in full swing, with Bristol the final race before the Round of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-133504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}