Team notes: Cup tour's engines idle for off weekend
USA Today | March 19, 2007
 Kevin
Harvick, No. 29 Chevrolet, Richard Childress Racing
This week: Harvick has no wins in the first five races but has two
top-five and four top-10 finishes. While his Kevin Harvick Inc. team will be
racing in Saturday's Nationwide race at Nashville, Harvick and his wife,
DeLana, are taking the Easter weekend off. "They will keep us informed as to
what going on," Harvick said. "We will be at home, relaxing and just kind of
taking it all in. This year on the Cup side, we have had so much work to do
as far as testing and other things, this off week is timed at a really good
point for not only myself but the race teams and everybody involved in our
sport to really relax and take advantage of the off week. Before, the third
week of the season, you weren't really ready for an off week. With all the
stuff we have had going on this year, it comes at a perfect time."
Last week: Harvick finished second at Bristol but after bumping the
leader, Tony Stewart, out of the way at the end, he spent much of the
post-race fending off questions about the incident. "I just lost it getting
into Tony," Harvick said. "They can take it for what it is worth and move on.
I got down on the apron, lost the car, got inside of Tony and that was pretty
much the end of it. It was mine to lose at that point and I lost it. I got up
under there with one or two laps to go; got up on the apron and lost the
thing. I was trying to get all I could."
Etc.: While there is so much talk about whether NASCAR has lost its
core fan, Harvick doesn't believe that is the case. "There are still a lot of
people here that have watched these races for a long time," he said. "There
are a lot of owners here that have watched these races for a long time. Right
now, I think everybody is doing a good job. The consistency of the product
that we have on the race track and around the garage are pretty stable, and I
think that is what everybody is looking for."
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