{"id":94178,"date":"2025-08-19T11:30:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T11:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/94178\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T11:30:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T11:30:06","slug":"nascar-champions-kyle-larson-and-kevin-harvick-in-controversial-nascar-disagreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/94178\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR champions Kyle Larson and Kevin Harvick in controversial NASCAR disagreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                                                                                                Change your timezone:&#13;<br \/>\n                                                                                                &#13;<br \/>\n                                                &#13;\n                                            <\/p>\n<p>NASCAR Cup Series legend <a title=\"Kevin Harvick\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/us\/tags\/kevin-harvick\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Harvick<\/a> has publicly disagreed with <a title=\"Kyle Larson\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/us\/tags\/kyle-larson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Larson<\/a> over the box office smash movie \u2018Talladega Nights\u2019. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nDuring a recent podcast appearance, Larson claimed that \u2018The Ballad of Ricky Bobby\u2019 <a title=\"gave NASCAR a bad reputation\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/us\/f1-news\/1058187\/kyle-larson-talladega-nights-movie-turned-nascar-into-a-joke\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gave NASCAR a bad reputation<\/a> and turned the sport into a joke. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI liked the movie. I think it did not do anything good for our sport. I think it turned our sport into like a joke, unfortunately,\u201d he said on Julian Edelman\u2019s Games With Names podcast. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThat\u2019s gotta be one of the most popular racing movies. But I feel like the rest of the world, that\u2019s what they think of our sport now.\u201d&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nHowever, addressing Larson&#8217;s comments on the movie, former Cup Series champion Harvick disagreed with the Hendrick Motorsports star, making his opinion clear on his <a title=\"Happy Hour show\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V6hx-7CQgfU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Happy Hour show<\/a>. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI thought it was hilarious. I liked it,\u201d Harvick explained.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nHarvick&#8217;s co-host, Mamba Smith, then added: \u201cI think that it\u2019s time for us to have another serious movie. Days of Thunder 2 would be nice.\u201d&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nHarvick, however, suggested a sequel to Talladega Nights: \u201cTalladega Nights 2,&#8221;&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I know where we could re-enact the scene,\u201d Harvick continued, where it later transpired he was moving into the actual house that Ricky Bobby [Will Ferrell] lived in the movie.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nNASCAR HEADLINES: <a title=\"Cup Series star addresses latest beef as champion&#039;s retirement confirmed\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/us\/f1-news\/1059283\/nascar-today-cup-series-star-admits-confusion-as-champions-retirement-confirmed\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cup Series star addresses latest beef as champion&#8217;s retirement confirmed<\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Larson eyes movie appearance <\/p>\n<p>\nDuring the same podcast appearance where he discussed \u2018Talladega Nights\u2019, <a title=\"Larson\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/us\/tags\/kyle-larson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Larson<\/a> revealed he hopes to feature in a movie someday, particularly a sequel to 1990 Tom Cruise classic \u2018Days of Thunder\u2019.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nThe sports action film \u2013 produced by the same name behind the F1 Movie, Jerry Bruckheimer \u2013 follows fictional rookie racer Cole Trickle (Cruise) in the world of NASCAR. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n\u2018Days of Thunder\u2019 also features real life cameos from NASCAR stars such as Richard Petty and Rusty Wallace, with Larson hoping to emulate these names if a sequel is released. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI was with Jeff Gordon the other night and he\u2019s good friends with Tom, and he went to the premiere of \u2018Mission Impossible\u2019. \u201cHe\u2019s like, \u2018We\u2019re doing it. We\u2019ve got to do another \u2018Days of Thunder.\u2019 I hope they do it,\u201d he said. &#13;<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI would absolutely be in it. I would like to be in it.\u201d&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\nREAD MORE: <a title=\"NASCAR seizes three cars for further inspection post-Richmond\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gpfans.com\/us\/f1-news\/1059222\/nascar-seizes-three-cars-further-inspection-richmond-raceway\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASCAR seizes three cars for further inspection post-Richmond<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Change your timezone:&#13; &#13; &#13; NASCAR Cup Series legend Kevin Harvick has publicly disagreed with Kyle Larson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1707,1080,1706,1961,5263,425,3,25320,99],"class_list":["post-94178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-gpfans","tag-kevin-harvick","tag-kyle-larson","tag-nascar","tag-news","tag-sheona-mountford","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}