Harvick not planning to race his own Cup team
By Kenny Bruce
Friday, March 24, 2006
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BRISTOL, Tenn. -- While rumored to be the top choice of Toyota when that auto maker ventures into NASCAR Nextel Cup Series competition in 2007, driver Kevin Harvick says none of the future moves he makes will entail the role of owner/driver.
In fact, Harvick's comments Friday at Bristol Motor Speedway sounded more like the five-year Cup veteran would rather remain with current car owner Richard Childress than either exit to start his own Cup program - he already fields Busch and Truck entries through Kevin Harvick Inc. - or leave to drive for another owner.
"If I had to decide today, we wouldn't have a Cup team at KHI," he said. "It's just not in the picture today. Maybe tomorrow it is, I don't know ...
"If you look at history ... it just doesn't work when you drive for yourself. To me, it seems like you can find an excuse to why you shouldn't do something or why you shouldn't buy [equipment] or do this or that.
"I think to be competitive you have to have somebody pushing you. You have to have somebody wanting to make you better and wanting you to do the right things. I think you need to have a boss."
Harvick is in the final year of his contract with Richard Childress Racing, although there are contract options available to Childress to re-sign the driver. And while the two have mutually agreed to discuss their future later this year, Harvick said Friday that there was no specific date set to have any issues resolved.
"The time was a general assumption of April," he said, "that we'd sit down and talk. There's not a deadline. There's not a specific date. It's more of ... when [Childress is] home and I'm home, we'll sit down and talk. "
The talk of Toyota, he said, is speculation.
"It makes you feel good that everybody is talking about what you want to do or should do," he said. "I'm being dead honest here, I've stayed as much out of all this stuff as I could, and left it up to everybody else outside of it.
"... As far as [Toyota] courting me, I don't know what would fall into that category. Everything up to this point is speculation of what's happening. Right now, there's nothing done or nothing happening anywhere from any manufacturer or anything."
Harvick has five wins and four poles in 182 career starts at RCR. He is 23rd in points after four races in 2006.
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