Kevin said of his son\u2019s performance<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cI loved the fact that he won against a great field of cars, that\u2019s what we try to do, we try to go run the competitive races, because you learn more.\u201d<\/p>\n
Originally scheduled to begin at 6 pm on Saturday night, rain showers delayed the start time until 1:41 am on Sunday morning, with Harvick crossing the finish line at 3:24 am.<\/p>\n
Keelan embodied similar characteristics his father, who won a Cup Series title, Daytona 500 win, and recorded 60 career victories, used to become one of the most decorated NASCAR drivers of the 21st century.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Since retiring at the end of the 2023 season, Harvick has maintained a prominent role in his son\u2019s racing career while remembering being Keelan\u2019s father comes above all.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s never going to have to deal with me as he moves up the ranks to talk on the radio and talk to the crew chief,\u201d Kevin said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re father and son, so the coaching piece of it is much better coached through the coach. Me in there on him all the time is not going to work. We\u2019ve had a lot more success with that through the karting, through the Legend cars, and finding the right people and the right team to make sure the car is right so we can focus on the driver.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a constant evaluation behind the scenes of making sure that you have the right people and you have the right races.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI guess I\u2019m somewhat of a gatekeeper of how things get set up and then watch and make sure that the details of how we would expect things to go are happening.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keelan Harvick made history early Sunday morning by becoming the youngest ever driver to win the Snowflake 125.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":331812,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,146110,137783,25423,2332,634,146109,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-331811","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-five-flags-speedway","11":"tag-keelan-harvick","12":"tag-kevin-harvick","13":"tag-motorsport-section","14":"tag-nascar","15":"tag-snowflake-125","16":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331811","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=331811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}