{"id":23737,"date":"2018-07-26T14:25:14","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T18:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=23737"},"modified":"2018-07-26T14:25:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T18:25:14","slug":"nascar-harvick-wins-in-new-hampshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2018\/07\/nascar-harvick-wins-in-new-hampshire\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR: Harvick Wins in New Hampshire"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"KEVIN HARVICK, No. 4 Busch Light Ford Fusion
\nFinishing Position: 1st<\/strong><\/p>\n

VICTORY LANE INTERVIEW \u2013 WALK ME THROUGH THE MOVE ON THE 18. \u201cI just didn\u2019t know if I was gonna get there at the end and I felt like that was my best opportunity to do what I had to do to win. I didn\u2019t want to wreck him, but I didn\u2019t want to waste a bunch of time behind him. I just got to thank everybody on this No. 4 Busch Beer\/Jimmy John\u2019s Ford for everything that they do \u2013 Mobil 1, Haas Automation, Hunt Brother\u2019s, everybody from Stewart-Haas Racing. What a great weekend.\u201d
\n<\/p>\n

WHEN YOU MAKE A MOVE LIKE THAT DO YOU WORRY ABOUT IT COMING BACK TO YOU IN THE FUTURE? \u201cYou do and you worry about that stuff later. It\u2019s not like I wrecked him. It\u2019s the same thing as Chicago.\u201d<\/p>\n

WHAT ABOUT THE FANS. \u201cI want to thank all the fans for sticking it out in the rain today and what a great race today. Thanks to everybody from Foxwood and everybody from New Hampshire Motor Speedway.\u201d<\/p>\n

WAS THAT AN INTIMIDATOR MOVE WITH THE 18? \u201cWe were just running out of laps and I knew that I might not get to him again. As hard as both of us were pushing, we were chattering the rear tires, front tires and I got to him. I knew that I needed to take my opportunity and felt like I needed to try and get him up out of the groove and I got him up out of the groove and was able to get by. I\u2019m just really proud of everybody on our No. 4 Busch Beer Ford. I\u2019ve got to thank Jimmy John\u2019s and Mobil 1, Outback, Hunt Brother\u2019s, Morton Buildings, Textron Off-Road, Liftmaster, everybody who helps from Stewart-Haas and Stewart-Haas Racing.\u201d<\/p>\n

IS THIS FLEXING THE MUSCLES? \u201cWinning is important and you\u2019ve got to try to take every opportunity you can. I felt like my car was better. He was in the lane that I needed to be and as you get to the end, as you saw at Chicago, you\u2019ve got to be aggressive and do what you\u2019ve got to do sometimes to win these races. It\u2019s one of those deals and we want to win. Points are everything and getting a \u201cW\u201d is what it\u2019s all about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ford Notes and Quotes<\/p>\n

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS)<\/p>\n

Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 (New Hampshire Motor Speedway; Loudon, NH)<\/p>\n

Sunday, July 22, 2018<\/p>\n

Page 2<\/p>\n

Ford Finishing Order:<\/p>\n

1st \u2013 Kevin Harvick<\/p>\n

3rd \u2013 Aric Almirola<\/p>\n

7th \u2013 Ryan Blaney<\/p>\n

8th \u2013 Kurt Busch<\/p>\n

9th \u2013 Joey Logano<\/p>\n

15th \u2013 Matt Kenseth<\/p>\n

17th \u2013 Paul Menard<\/p>\n

26th \u2013 Michael McDowell<\/p>\n

28th \u2013 Matt DiBenedetto<\/p>\n

29th \u2013 David Ragan<\/p>\n

30th \u2013 Ricky Stenhouse Jr.<\/p>\n

32nd \u2013 Brad Keselowski<\/p>\n

35th \u2013 Clint Bowyer<\/p>\n

ARIC ALMIROLA, No. 10 Smithfield Ford Fusion<\/p>\n

Finishing Position: 3rd<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m disappointed. You think I\u2019d be really excited to run top five and I\u2019m not. We had the best car hands-down. There\u2019s no doubt in my mind. We gave it away on pit road and then I gave it away again on the restart. I spun the tires on the restart and didn\u2019t even give myself a fighting chance, so I\u2019m just really frustrated. Chicago, we had a car capable of winning and we didn\u2019t execute today again with another car capable of winning, and we didn\u2019t get our Smithfield Ford Fusion in Victory Lane. It\u2019s just frustrating. They say you\u2019ve got to lose some before you win some and I feel like we\u2019ve lost some now and it\u2019s time to stop it and go to Victory Lane. I\u2019m really proud of everybody at Stewart-Haas Racing. They\u2019re giving me incredible race cars and we showed up with cars capable of running in the top five and challenging to win races these last seven weeks. I\u2019m really proud of everybody back at the shop. I\u2019m really proud of Johnny Klausmeier and all the guys on this 10 team. We\u2019re gonna get Smithfield and Ford Motor Company and Mobil 1 and everybody that helps us out to Victory Lane really soon.\u201d<\/p>\n

HOW MUCH HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MENTALITY THAT A TOP 5 IS DISAPPOINTING? \u201cIt\u2019s different from my past, but I\u2019m competitive. We played Candyland in the bus earlier during the rain delay and I don\u2019t like to lose to my kids playing Candyland. I\u2019m just competitive by nature and I want to win, especially for everybody that believes in me and support me \u2013 Tony Stewart, Gene Haas, everybody at Haas Automation and Stewart-Haas Racing and Ford Motor Company and Smithfield \u2013 everybody has put so much into believing in me and giving me this opportunity to come here and I feel like I owe it to them to win and to prove them right that they made the right choice. I\u2019m frustrated that I didn\u2019t get to Victory Lane today.\u201d<\/p>\n

KURT BUSCH, No. 41 Monster Energy\/Haas Automation Ford Fusion<\/p>\n

Finishing Position: 8th<\/p>\n

\u201cThe good news is we had good speed. We had good lap times most of the day. For 95 percent of the day we had pace to be a winner and to lead laps, so that\u2019s what I take away from a day like today, where sometimes we\u2019d be glued sixth to 10th and don\u2019t have the power to lead laps a lot, so I\u2019m happy with that. Pit road, once in 1,000 years that\u2019s gonna happen. We just shouldn\u2019t have pitted on that lap. Blaney is a good kid. He wanted to let me go, but then I would have blocked him in. I was like, \u2018No kid, go.\u2019 That just turned into a total disaster and then restart I just didn\u2019t\u2019 get a good restart behind Almirola when we fifth, so you mess up twice you\u2019re not gonna win the race. That\u2019s just how it works in Monster Energy Cup.\u201d<\/p>\n

WHAT DID YOU TALK TO WITH BILLY ABOUT? \u201cWe also have to do things to the car to find that right adjustment, to be able to tailor the car for speed for a win at the last 50 to 70 laps. Today, that last adjustment wasn\u2019t quite right, so that\u2019s what we were discussing. When the crew chief says pit, I\u2019ve got to pit. And then he says, \u2018he should be gone by the time you get there,\u2019 and sometimes wishful thinking won\u2019t carry you through. It\u2019s part of racing. Things like that happen. I\u2019ve just got to thank Monster Energy, Haas Automation, Ford, Doug Yates. We had the pole today and we had some good steam.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ford Notes and Quotes<\/p>\n

Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS)<\/p>\n

Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 (New Hampshire Motor Speedway; Loudon, NH)<\/p>\n

Sunday, July 22, 2018<\/p>\n

Page 3<\/p>\n

KURT BUSCH CONTINUED — WERE YOU DISAPPOINTED ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED ON THE PIT STOP? \u201cWe ended up on the same lap as Blaney. That\u2019s just bad luck or bad communication between two crew chiefs. And then the crew chief is like, \u2018he\u2019ll be gone by the time you get there.\u2019 And I initially thought that, and then they were still hanging left-side tires and I was like, \u2018Oh no, oh no. He\u2019s gonna be there.\u2019 If I would have come around him, I would have blocked him huge. I would have been at a bad angle and that was just one of those we\u2019re two guys walking down the hallway and we bumped into each other and had to hold each other up. That just kind of pushed us back too far on the final restart and I didn\u2019t get a good last restart. If we could have come off pit road in fourth, it might have been a whole different race. I think that might have been where Harvick might have been or the 78, but we were in the mix today. That\u2019s what counts. We had a Playoff type of day today.\u201d<\/p>\n

IS THE FIRST PIT STALL NOT AS BIG OF AN ADVANTAGE AS SOME OTHER PLACES? \u201cYou just aren\u2019t supposed to pit on the same lap they do under green. That was a fundamental mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n

MATT KENSETH, No. 6 Constantine Sealing Services Ford Fusion<\/p>\n

Finishing Position: 15th<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were just way off Friday and then in the race we got some decent track position with some good strategy by Matt. We were off on pit stop and something happened. We got in the back and got my fenders banged in, so we had to fix that. We were just behind the whole day after that, but our performance today was a whole lot better than Friday for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

CLINT BOWYER, No. 14 Haas 30 Years of the VF1 Ford Fusion<\/p>\n

Finishing Position: Retired on lap 256; Finished 35th<\/p>\n

\u201cIt just sucks. First and foremost, I hate that for my teammate. It was his first win and he was dominating the race. I was trying to nurse it around. Something in the left-rear was broke and no more than Brett (Griffin, spotter) told me, \u2018we\u2019re having trouble, let\u2019s just get off the track,\u2019 and I was kind of thinking the same thing. Literally, as he was saying that and I\u2019m thinking it, something broke on the right side and away it went. That sucks. I hate it for him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KEVIN HARVICK, No. 4 Busch Light Ford Fusion Finishing Position: 1st VICTORY LANE INTERVIEW \u2013 WALK ME THROUGH THE MOVE ON THE 18. \u201cI just didn\u2019t know if I was gonna get there at the end and I felt like that was my best opportunity to do what I had to do to win. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,33,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","category-new-hampshire","category-nhms","category-touring-series-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23738,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23737\/revisions\/23738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}