Kevin Harvick Biography
Kevin Harvick ( born Kevin Michael Harvick) nicknamed “The Closer”, “The Bridesmaid”, and “Happy Harvick,”is an American professional stock car racing driver. He currently competes full-time in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 4 Ford Mustang for Stewart-Haas Racing. He is the former owner of Kevin Harvick Incorporated, a race team that fielded cars in the Xfinity and Camping World Truck Series between 2004 and 2011. He is the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion and a two-time Xfinity Series champion. He holds the all-time record for Cup Series wins at Phoenix International Raceway with nine wins. Harvick is also the third-winningest driver in Xfinity Series history with 47 wins.
Kevin Harvick Age
Kevin Harvick an American professional stock car racing driver was born December 8th, 1975 in Bakersfield, CA. He is 43 years old as of 2018.
Kevin Harvick Height
Have you been wondering how tall is the American professional stock car racing driver, well according to our research, he stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches.
Kevin Harvick Family
He was born on December 8, 1975, in Bakersfield, California, United States. He is of American nationality and North American ethnicity. His name by birth is Kevin Michael Harvick. He is the second child of American parents, Mike Harvick and JoNell Harvick. He has an elder brother named Clayton Harvick and a younger sister named Amber Harvick. He had an interest in racing from an early age.
Kevin Harvick Wife
He is married to DeLana Lynn who he first met with in 2000during a race at Michigan International Speedway. At the time she was working in public relations for driver Randy LaJoie. He married her on February 28, 2001, in Las Vegas, Nevada, shortly after Harvick made his Cup debut. Unlike many NASCAR wives, she can often be seen during a race on top of the pit box wearing a custom-made fire-suit The couple have sold their home in Kernersville, North Carolina and moved to Charlotte with their son, Keelan Paul Harvick (born July 8, 2012), their daughter Piper Harvick born on December 28th, 2017, three dogs and two cats. The Harvicks recently sold their vacation home in Kiawah Island, South Carolina.
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Kevin Harvick Education
He schooled at North High School. In his school, he played baseball, basketball, football, and soccer. Later, he attended Bakersfield College to study architecture but he found his heart was in racing and dropped out to continue his racing career full-time. He attended several race competitions during his high school time.
Kevin Harvick Career
He began his racing career in 1992 by racing late models part-time in the NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Series and he competed there while still in high school. He made his debut at the Mesa Marin Raceway in 1995. In 1997, he signed a contract with Spears Motorsports. The same year, he raced for NASCAR Grand National Division, AutoZone West Series. After a year, he won five races in Winston West Series championship. Harvick made his first NASCAR Busch Series debut on October 23, 1999. In 2001, he made his Winston Cup Seriesdebut. They planned to race Harvick for a full schedule in 2002.
He became “2001 Nascar Winston Cup Series Rookie of the Year”. The same year, he became Nascar Busch Series Champion. After that, he became the Busch Series Champion in 2006. He had won the same championship for the first time in 2001. He is the former owner of Kevin Harvick Incorporated. His race team ran in the Xfinity Seriesand the Camping World Truck Seriesbetween 2004 and 2011. He became the NASCAR Sprint Cup champion in 2014. He is one of the highest paid racers of America.
Kevin Harvick Net Worth
He is also a philanthropist and has established the Kevin Harvick Foundation in 2010 in order to support programs which enrich the lives of children from the U.S. You go, mister! he has an estimated net worth of $ 70 million dollars.
Kevin Harvick Baby
Kevin and DeLana Harvick announced on Saturday the birth of daughter Piper Grace on Thursday night. The 2014 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion sent out this photo featuring the proud papa and equally ecstatic big brother Keelan.
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Kevin Harvick Fast Facts
- Wrestled during the (non-racing) winter months in high school, winning a section title in his weight class as a senior.
- Established himself early as an aggressive, hard-nosed and temperamental driver, earning the nicknames “Bakersfield Burner” and “Happy.” Named NASCAR Busch Series Rookie of the Year in 2001.
- Took over as a Cup Series driver for Richard Childress Racing the week after Dale Earnhardt’s tragic death at the 2001 Daytona 500, finishing 14th in the No. 29 car (Earnhardt’s No. 3 was retired) in Rockingham, N.C.
- Married wife DeLana in Las Vegas two days after his Cup Series debut.
- Drove to victory (by only six-thousandths of a second over Jeff Gordon) in just his third Cup Series start (in Atlanta), faster than any driver in the history of NASCAR’s top level.
- Captured the Busch Series title in 2002 while also driving a full schedule on the Cup Series circuit, where he won Rookie of the Year. The 69 total races set a NASCAR record. Harvick added another Busch Series title in 2006, then won the prestigious Daytona 500 in 2007.
- Owns three NASCAR race teams: the Nos. 2 and 33 in Camping World Truck Series and No. 33 in the Nationwide Series. Team headquarters for Kevin Harvick Inc. (KHI) are in Kernersville, N.C
Kevin Harvick News
Harvick on the First wreck at Talladega: Many driving ‘ ways above their head’
The first major wreck of Sunday’s GEICO 500 at Talladega Superspeedway occurred on Lap 11 of the scheduled 188-lap event.
Drivers involved included Denny Hamlin, Stewart-Haas Racing teammates Clint Bowyerand Kevin Harvick, Michael McDowell, Ryan Newman, Matt Tifft, Jimmie Johnson, and Bubba Wallace. The incident began when Wallace attempted to bump draft Blaney, who moved to his left at about the same time. Wallace’s car wiggled, got loose and shot up the track, right into the side of McDowell’s Ford. The others were collected in the resulting pileup.“All I was trying to do was wreck avoidance,” Wallace told Fox Sports. “I had such a big run on (Blaney), the 22 (Joey Logano) and he checked up a little bit.
“I went to the bottom to where I was safe. I don’t know if I crossed his bumper, but it got him wiggled and shoved me further down than I wanted to go. I went up back up to stay off the apron and it just unloaded. It was unfortunate, but I tried not to wreck my buddy Ryan and it cost us our day and others. So I apologize. I was just trying to ride and not wreck somebody, and wrecked myself.”Harvick told NBC Sports’ Dustin Long, “There are a lot of people that are way above their head and I think that obviously proved it.” Harvick also said “can’t push” to Wallace when the Richard Petty Motorsports driver approached him.
Wallace, McDowell’s and Tifft’s cars were all knocked out of the race. McDowell told Fox Sports, “It was just pretty early on and being that aggressive, and unfortunately for us, we were just in the wrong place at the wrong time. I didn’t really see what happen, just saw the 43 (Wallace) coming up the race track. That was about it.“We were really hoping for today and to be out so early on is very disappointing. But it’s out of our control. That’s part of superspeedway racing.
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