Google News Kevin Harvick on the reasons why today's NASCAR drivers drive so aggressively
by SEAD DEDOVIC | VIEW 314
The aggressiveness of NASCAR drivers has been a subject of a lot of debate in recent times. One of the most recent examples of this was the race at COTA. Kevin Harvick, an experienced driver, made assumptions about why today's drivers race more aggressively in one of the interviews.
In Harvick's opinion, it all starts from the earliest stages of the racing career. “Today, I really see it at the go-kart tracks. The things you currently see on the racetrack are exactly how all of them are taught to race.
They’re taught to block, they’re taught to race in the rain, they’re taught to run into you and they’re taught to gouge on the restarts, and that’s just the way it is. It’s just a different upbringing as far as how you teach them to race compared to how I was taught to race, and there are a lot more situations where everybody has the resources and cars to get to the racetrack than putting your car together on a week-to-week basis where if you didn’t finish, you didn’t get to go for a few weeks.
It’s a much different era of racing than what it used to be”.
Kevin Harvick and his opinion
Kevin Harvick compared the past and present. There are many differences. Harvick believes that some things could not have happened so easily.
“Well, the driver code is not what it used to be when I first started — when you would run into the back of somebody on a restart and lift their tires up off the ground because the nose was only eight, nine, 10 inches off the ground.
It was much different then because there was a race etiquette that Ken Schrader and Bobby Hamilton and Dale Earnhardt jr and Mark Martin made sure that you understood. Usually, it came in ways of not being able to get your lap back when the caution came out.
They would race you back to the yellow if you weren’t doing things appropriately on the racetrack.“
