It isn’t stunning that issues NASCAR Cup Collection champion Kevin Harvick’s family.
Simply a short time after his son Keelan grew to become bored throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and requested Kevin to take him to journey go-karts, Keelan is already racing on a number of the similar tracks the place his father ran.
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Keelan, who turned 13 in the summertime, was on the on Nov. 8, making his debut on the 0.58-mile monitor within the Tour All American 100, which was scheduled to start out round 9 p.m.
“When COVID hit I had nothing to take action I requested my dad if I may go to the go-kart monitor and I’ve beloved it ever since,” Keelan stated. “I acquired hooked on racing and my dad has supported me since then. I did not know I would be this far alongside in just some years, however I am actually comfortable to be right here.”
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Keelan Harvick likes racing the place his father Kevin raced
Keelan was on the identical monitor on Nov. 8 the place his father raced which finally included 60 NASCAR Cup wins, the 2007 Daytona 500 championship, and three Brickyard 400 victories.
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Kevin Harvick, who retired after the 2023 season and joined the Fox broadcast crew, raced at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway within the NASCAR Truck Collection in 1997 and 1998. In 2000 he ran within the final NASCAR occasion on the historic monitor within the Busch Collection (now Xfinity Collection) BellSouth Mobility 320. He completed fourth.
Keelan stated the tracks he likes to run probably the most are these like Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway the place his father ran for a few causes.
Keelan Harvick, proper, and his father, Kevin, a former NASCAR Cup Collection champion and present Fox Sports activities broadcaster, had been at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway on Nov. 8, the place Keelan raced within the All America 100.
“One, I simply suppose it is neat to be on the identical monitor he was on, and likewise as a result of he is aware of the monitor and may inform me what to look out for,” Keelan stated.
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Kevin Harvick and son Keelan’s motto: ‘How snug are you able to be being uncomfortable?’
What Kevin Harvick instructed his son concerning the distinctive Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway paved oval with 18-degree banking was that it may be difficult.
“It is a very tough monitor,” Keelan stated. “However I like that. I like being uncomfortable. It pushes you to the sting. And I like a monitor the place it’s important to save tires, and also you positively have to avoid wasting tires on this monitor. I am fairly good at saving tires, typically.”
Since his son confirmed an curiosity in racing, Kevin Harvick has tried to place him on various kinds of tracks, and the asphalt oval on the Superspeedway suits that invoice.
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“From the go-karts to the Legend vehicles to the place we at the moment are, we all the time attempt to go to totally different racetracks to find a way simply to have one thing that’s totally different to cross, drive, no matter it’s, to have the ability to get these totally different seems to be and have to determine a brand new racetrack,” Kevin Harvick stated. “Our motto has all the time been, ‘How snug are you able to be being uncomfortable?'”
Keelan Harvick, the son of former NASCAR Cup champion Kevin Harvick, climbs into his race automobile on the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway.
Kevin Harvick hopes Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway survives
An effort to deliver NASCAR racing again to Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway is being made by Sand Kevin Harvick want to see it occur.
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However extra importantly he needs to see brief tracks just like the one at Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway survive in order that his son and different younger drivers could have locations to race.
“It is essential to maintain the short-track system wholesome to have the ability to have services for younger drivers,” Kevin Harvick stated. “And this one is fairly versatile from the quarter-mile (monitor) standpoint to the 0.58-mile. It is acquired a longstanding historical past in short-track racing normally. It is essential to protect stuff like this. It isn’t like they’re constructing them new on a constant foundation.”
