After its debut in the non-championship Busch Light Clash at the LA Coliseum on February 6, the Next Gen car has now seen full-blooded Cup Series competition at Daytona and Fontana.
This weekend’s race, at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, is the first for the car on a 1.5-mile oval – the kind of track that makes up the majority of the schedule.
Harvick says his Stewart-Haas Racing team is ploughing through its workload nicely, having scored a Top 5 finish with Aric Almirola at Daytona and a sixth and seventh at Fontana with Almirola and Harvick respectively.
“We’re learning how to work on the car efficiently, at the track and at the shop, and that’s what I like about where we are as a group,” said Harvick. “Our group is filled with hardcore racers, and this first six weeks of racing is going to be really hardcore.”
Speaking ahead of the second race in NASCAR’s early-season West Coast swing in Sin City, Harvick believes that engineers are quickly working out which…
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