TC Daily Pit Stop: Kevin Harvick Recalls First Dale Earnhardt Ass-Chewing; Richard Childress Optimistic for 2025
TC Daily Pit Stop: Friday, October 4, 2024
It’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Race Day at Talladega: The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series takes to the 2.66-mile superspeedway for a Friday evening event. Coverage of the race will be at 4:30pm ET on FS1.
Kevin Harvick Recalls First Ass-Chewing From Dale Earnhardt After Testing His Car
On this week’s edition of Kevin Harvick’s Happy Hour Podcast, Harvick was joined by Richard Childress, who he drove for from 2000 to 2013. During the interview, Harvick brought up a lot of details from the beginning of his Richard Childress Racing tenure, and even the moments and decisions that led to him joining Richard Childress Racing in 2000.
One of the most endearing memories Harvick brought up on the show was the first time he got his ass chewed out by Earnhardt.
“Yeah, he was mad at us because he didn’t know we were testing his car and we wound up being fast. And then at Phoenix, he got there and had to answer all the retirement questions because I was out driving his car,” Harvick recalled. “And that was the first time that I really was able to kind of be a smart ass to Dale in a way where he was kind of like, yeah, who is this kid? But you know, it was just one of those things that you had to get to know Dale, and I had just kind of started to get to know him over the testing piece of it.”
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Richard Childress: 2024 Has 'Been a Tough Year' Encouraged for 2025
To say it's been a struggle for Richard Childress Racing in 2024 would be an understatement. The two-car NASCAR Cup Series team failed to land either of its drivers -- Kyle Busch and Austin Dillon -- into the Playoffs, and Busch is still looking for his first win of the season, 30 races into the year.
This week, team owner Richard Childress stopped by Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour Podcast, where he talked about the trying season, and the team owner chalked up a lot of the team's misfortune to being swept up in accidents on track.
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Josh Bilicki Back Behind the Wheel of Joe Gibbs Racing Xfinity Car at ROVAL
Josh Bilicki, a road racing expert and veteran of the NASCAR National Series, will make his second start behind the wheel of a Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota GR Supra in next weekend’s NASCAR Xfinity Series event at the Charlotte Motor Speedway ROVAL.
Bilicki, 29, will pilot the team’s No. 19 entry with primary sponsorship from longtime sponsorship partner Insurance King and Trim-Tex Drywall Products. Bilicki’s car will feature a patriotic red, white, and blue paint scheme for the event.
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NASCAR TRIVIA:
NEED A HINT?
The finish happened in 2011.
The runner-up (not the winner) won the Fall event at Talladega.
The winner does NOT have a car number matching the record-high number of lead changes.
DID YOU GET OUR LAST QUESTION CORRECT?
Q: Who won the first-ever NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega?
A: Richard Brickhouse. 58% got it right! Brickhouse won his only NASCAR Cup Series event in the inaugural race at Talladega Superspeedway in 1996, after a number of drivers went on strike.
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