Harvick OnLine: Harvick's RCR Team On Rise Again

Harvick's RCR team on the rise again

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - Kevin Harvick, currently eighth in the NASCAR Nextel Cup standings, thinks his Richard Childress Racing team is getting stronger every week. That could make them even more of a threat when the Chase For The Nextel Cup begins.

Harvick returns to Daytona International Speedway after winning the season-opening Daytona 500 at the track. Although he hasn't won a points race since - Harvick did win the all-star race at Lowe's Motor Speedway in May - he brings a streak of three consecutive top-10 finishes into Saturday night's race.

So how does he assess his season to date and his chances to turn it into a championship effort?

"We've run very strong through the whole year, and we've had a couple hiccups along the way at a couple race tracks, but nothing crazy bad," he said. "For the most part, we've been really good, performance-wise, and we've just had a lot of things go wrong. Hopefully, we've gotten all those things out of the way. Our engines keep getting better every week, and I know we have a plan getting to the Chase of our engines being better and having different packages and things like that to choose from.

"So, it seems like we keep gaining momentum."

Harvick says that it's been tough to keep up with everything this year, a season in which teams have switched between the standard car and NASCAR's new car of tomorrow week to week. Teams are testing more in an effort to explore the new model and discover how to make it run fast.

While that's been tough to maintain, Harvick says things are heading in the right direction with his team.

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