The ultimate 10 laps of the Cup occasion won by Tyler Reddick took virtually an hour to finish, with a trio of time beyond regulation restarts required following a collection of Flip 1 multi-car pileups after restarts, which resulted in automotive and tyre harm inflicting cautions for particles.
In whole, there have been 5 restarts within the last 15 laps. Harvick, who was within the thick of the motion in his Stewart-Haas Racing Ford Mustang and ended the race 13th, retires from full-time NASCAR competition at the end of the season.
He mentioned that issues had modified so much since his inventory automotive racing profession started within the mid-1990s.
“Nicely, the driving force code will not be what it was after I first began – while you would run into the again of someone on a restart and raise their tyres up off the bottom, as a result of the nostril was solely eight, 9, 10 inches off the bottom,” mentioned Harvick.
“It was a lot completely different then as a result of there was a race etiquette that Ken Schrader, Bobby Hamilton, Dale Earnhardt and Mark Martin made certain that you just understood.
“Normally, it got here in methods of not having the ability to get your lap again when the warning got here out. They might race you again to the yellow [flag] for those who weren’t doing issues appropriately on the racetrack.”
Harvick believes that these roughhouse ways run proper by means of motorsport within the trendy period – and he’s skilled it whereas guiding his son Keelan by means of the karting ranks in current instances.
“Immediately, I actually see it on the go-kart tracks,” mentioned Harvick. “The belongings you at present see on the racetrack are precisely how all of them are taught to race.
Kevin Harvick, Stewart-Haas Racing, Mobil 1 Ford Mustang
Picture by: Nigel Kinrade / NKP / Motorsport Images
“They’re taught to dam, they’re taught to race within the rain, they’re taught to run into you and so they’re taught to gouge on the restarts, and that’s simply the best way it’s.
“It’s only a completely different upbringing so far as the way you educate them to race, in comparison with how I used to be taught to race, and there are much more conditions the place everyone has the sources and vehicles to get to the racetrack than placing your automotive collectively on a week-to-week foundation the place for those who didn’t end, you didn’t get to go for just a few weeks.
“It’s a a lot completely different period of racing than what it was.”
