While balancing out pros and cons for keeping KHI afloat, Kevin Harvick had one tipping scale reason to NOT having kept the NASCAR Truck Series team going, it would seem, as Kevin put it,
“When your wife tells you she’s not starting a family unless you get out of the race team business, that’s a pretty big factor in things that are going on.”
No pressure there!
But all joking aside, it was a matter of evolving priorities and timing with other events going on around the NASCAR race industry across the different series that helped Kevin pull the plug on KHI.
So much for all the aspirating rumors!
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As you might all be aware, with Clint Bowyer‘s Talladega win last weekend, was the 6th win of the 2011 NASCAR season & 12th win at the track for Richard Childress Racing (RCR). But more importantly, it was the milestone, 100th win for the RCR garage.
This puts RCR at the top of the all-time wins at Talladega.
RCR’s first win was in 1983 at Riverside International Raceway with Ricky Rudd behind the wheel.
Later, the late Dale Earnhardt came along and put himself at the top of the organization’s win chart, with 67 wins. He’s followed by Kevin Harvick’s 18 wins.
Check out some milestones for RCR:
Win #:
- 1: On June 5, 1983 at Riverside with Ricky Rudd.
- 11: RCR won its first Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, on May 25, 1986 with Dale Earnhardt driving.
- 23: RCR won its first Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. On Sept. 6, 1987, Dale Earnhardt led 109 laps en route to his own milestone – victory No. 30.
- 50: On July 3, 1993, Earnhardt won the Daytona International Speedway night race.
- 59: RCR won its first Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Aug. 5, 1995, as Earnhardt won the second running of the Brickyard 400.
- 64: RCR won its first Daytona 500 in an emotional win for Dale Earnhardt on Feb. 15, 1998.
- 84: RCR won its second Daytona 500, with Kevin Harvick on Feb. 18, 2007.
- 100: Clint Bowyer outdrafts Jeff Burton for the Talladega win on October 23, 2011!
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