{"id":246166,"date":"2025-10-28T18:29:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/246166\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T18:29:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T18:29:08","slug":"kevin-harvick-reacts-to-kyle-larson-comments-on-nascar-championship-experience-ahead-of-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/246166\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Harvick reacts to Kyle Larson comments on NASCAR championship experience ahead of Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kevin Harvick doesn\u2019t agree with one thing Kyle Larson said about competing in the NASCAR Cup Series Championship. On Kevin Harvick\u2019s Happy Hour<\/a>, Harvick was asked if he agreed with Larson saying that his previous championship experience wouldn\u2019t be an advantage for him when he competes in the race on Sunday. <\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think so,\u201d Kevin Harick said. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot to navigate as far as the week and the weekend and things that are going to be annoying. You\u2019re going to have more people around you. \u2026You got to have a plan if you\u2019re going to do it well. If you just go in there and wing it, I don\u2019t think you\u2019re going to get the most out of it. I think you got to have a structured plan.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you look a the Hendrick organization, I think that they\u2019re going to keep [William] Byron in line and help him manage his time because that\u2019s what they do as a company anyway. I think the pressure of the weekend is high. But I think the biggest thing in navigating the weekend is all the things that are not in your normal routine.\u201d <\/p>\n

Kyle Larson says his NASCAR title experinece \u201cmatters\u201d for this year\u2019s Championship 4 race<\/p>\n

Harvick went on to say that the \u201cracing part is actually easier to navigate\u201d because the drivers have worked all season to get there. Kyle Larson knows all about this as he won the NASCAR Cup Series title in 2021. He clinched a spot in this year\u2019s Championship 4 despite being on a 23-race winless streak.<\/p>\n

Larson made it to the championship race because he has finished no worse than seventh in five of the last six races. On Sunday, Larson finished fifth, which was the highest of the four drivers who are competing in the championship race. The other three who made the Championship 4 <\/a>are Byron, Denny Hamlin, and Chase Briscoe.<\/p>\n

One reason Larson believes his championship experience won\u2019t be an advantage is that fact that Hamlin and Byron have competed in the race before. \u201cI really don\u2019t think [my title matters],\u201d Larson said, per Bob Pockrass of Fox Sports<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s been so long, and we all have [experience]. Chase doesn\u2019t have any Championship 4 experience, but I don\u2019t even think that matters either.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll see. I would like to win a championship and not have a new champion next week, but it\u2019s going to be tough, for sure. It always is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Harvick doesn\u2019t agree with one thing Kyle Larson said about competing in the NASCAR Cup Series Championship.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246167,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,4386,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-246166","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-kyle-larson","11":"tag-nascar","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246166","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=246166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}