Kevin Harvick
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After a championship-winning career spanning 23 fulltime NASCAR Cup Series seasons, Kevin Harvick retired from driving at the conclusion of the 2023 season and joined FOX Sports as an analyst, calling NASCAR Cup Series races alongside Mike Joy and former teammate Clint Bowyer beginning with the 2024 season. Also, in his inaugural year with the network, Harvick began co-hosting FOX Sports original podcast KEVIN HARVICK’S HAPPY HOUR Presented by NASCAR on FOX, returning in 2025 for its second season, with Kaitlyn Vincie and Mamba Smith. Prior to retirement, Harvick served as a FOX NASCAR guest analyst for multiple NASCAR Xfinity Series and NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races, and during multiple NASCAR RACE HUB appearances. In 2015, he was the first of five active NASCAR Cup Series drivers selected by FOX Sports to be a guest driver analyst in the network’s inaugural year of Xfinity Series race coverage, making his debut in the season-opening race at Daytona. Harvick’s rotation in the FOX Sports booth eventually led to his annual stint as play-by-play announcer for FOX NASCAR’s “Drivers Only” Xfinity Series race telecast, commencing in 2017 and running through his final season in 2023. From 2015 to 2023, Harvick served as a FOX NASCAR guest driver analyst alongside play-by-play announcer Adam Alexander for nearly 30 NASCAR Xfinity Series races, in addition to several Truck Series races. In 2023, he joined the FS1 booth for four Xfinity and three Truck Series races. Behind the wheel, the 2014 NASCAR champion notched 60 NASCAR Cup Series wins, 251 top-five and 444 top-10 finishes, in addition to 31 pole positions. He earned the 2001 and 2006 Xfinity Series championships on the strength of 47 series wins, 186 top-five and 261 top-10 finishes, one of only three drivers to earn both a Cup and Xfinity Series championship. In 23 Cup Series seasons, Harvick finished in the top five in the point standings 13 times and in the top 10 a total of 17 times. Furthermore, he holds 14 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series victories. The 2007 Daytona 500 winner advanced to the Championship 4 five times, including a run of three consecutive years (2017-2019), sits ninth on the all-time Cup Series win list (60), and is one of only four drivers to win all four of NASCAR’s crown jewel events: the Daytona 500, the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. The height of Harvick’s success was realized at Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR), for whom he drove from 2014 through retirement. His tenure there produced a championship in his first season, a runner-up finish the next (2015), in which he finished one point behind the champion, third-place showings in 2017, 2018 and 2019, and a regular-season title in 2020. In 2015, Harvick became the first driver to lead more than 2,000 laps in back-to-back seasons since four-time champ Jeff Gordon in 1995 and 1996, in tandem with three wins, 23 top-five and 28 top-10 finishes. While he didn’t score a championship, 2020 was arguably his best season. Harvick, then 44 years old, earned a series-best nine wins, including his milestone 50th career NASCAR Cup Series victory at Darlington Raceway. He went on to earn the regular-season title prior to the Playoffs, in which he finished fifth. While he enjoyed the most success at SHR, Harvick first made a name for himself at Richard Childress Racing when he replaced the legendary Dale Earnhardt, who lost his life on the final lap of the season-opening 2001 Daytona 500. At the time, Harvick was set to compete fulltime in the Xfinity Series with select Cup Series starts in the No. 30 RCR entry after finishing third in the Xfinity Series championship with three wins and earning rookie-of-the-year awards in 2000.