This Week
Race: Camping World RV Sales 301
Date: Sunday, July 14
Track: New Hampshire Motor Speedway
TV: TNT, 1 p.m. ET
Radio: PRN Radio Affiliates, Sirius XM NASCAR Radio
Track Facts
Track Length: 1.058 miles
Race Length: 301 laps / 318.458 miles
Grandstand Seating Capacity: 93,521
First Race: July 11, 1993
Degree of Banking in Corners: Variable banking at 2 & 7 degrees
Degree of Banking in Straights: 1 degree
Degree of Banking in Tri-Oval: 18 degrees
Frontstretch: 1,500 feet
Backstretch: 1,500 feet
Rearview Mirror
Last weekend Harvick and the No. 29 Budweiser Folds of Honor team scored a third-place finish at Daytona International Speedway.
Budweiser Racing Team Notes of Interest
• Kevin Harvick and the No. 29 Budweiser Chevrolet SS team travel to New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) this weekend for Sunday’s Camping World RV Sales 301 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series (NSCS) race.
• Media Availability… Harvick will be available to members of the media at 11 a.m. on Friday in the NHMS media center.
• Mid-Season Review… At the mid-point of the NSCS season, Harvick and the No. 29 Budweiser Chevrolet team have recorded wins at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway (RIR) and Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway, and earned a total of five top-five and 10 top-10 finishes. Leading into the NHMS weekend, Harvick has scored eight-consecutive top-10 finishes, a streak that started with his fifth-place run at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway in May. The Bakersfield, Calif., driver is currently ranked fourth in the NSCS driver point standings.
• Chassis Info… The No. 29 Budweiser team will utilize Chassis No. 420 from the Richard Childress Racing (RCR) stable. Harvick raced this car to Victory Lane in April at RIR. He also earned a 13th-place finish in it at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway earlier that month.
• Statistically Speaking… Harvick has made 24 starts at NHMS, highlighted by a victory in the 2006 Sylvania 300. After leading 196 laps of the 300-lap event, Harvick edged runner-up Tony Stewart by 0.777 seconds to earn his ninth NSCS career win. He has also earned five top-five and 12 top-10 finishes and completed 99.2 percent (7,021 of 7,075) of the laps run at the track in NSCS competition. Harvick holds an average starting position of 14.1 and an average finish of 13.7 at the 1.058-mile track.
• A Look Back… Harvick started 12th and finished eighth during last year’s July race at NHMS.
• Loop Data… Harvick holds several impressive Loop Data statistics at NHMS, including: sixth in laps in the top 15 (3,172); sixth in laps led (252); eighth in average running position (12.706); eighth in driver rating (92.8); eighth in green flag speed (124.320 mph); ninth in fastest laps run (152); and ninth in speed in traffic (123.503).
• Meet Harvick at NHMS… NHMS fans will have a chance to meet Harvick and fellow NSCS drivers Matt Kenseth, Denny Hamlin and Casey Mears at 5:30 p.m. on Friday at the track. A limited number of wristbands for the autograph session will be distributed starting at 4 p.m. in the display lot near the SPEED stage.
Harvick Discusses Racing at New Hampshire Motor Speedway
Share your thoughts on racing at New Hampshire Motor Speedway with the Gen-6 car.
“I enjoy racing at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Unfortunately, we haven’t run as well as we would have liked the last few years. Obviously everything is new with this particular car and hopefully we can start off on the right foot this weekend. We have a race at New Hampshire during the Chase, so I’m hoping we can get a solid result and collect some good notes to build off of and have a good run during the second race there this season. It’s really another one of those places we will have to go to first, before we will really know how this new car is going to perform.”
Is there any other track on the circuit that you can compare to New Hampshire Motor Speedway? “Not really. I guess you could kind of compare it to Phoenix (International Raceway) now with the new asphalt in Turns 3 and 4, but that’s about it. New Hampshire Motor Speedway has some wider seams that have started to separate and the track is starting to age a bit. You have some forward grip issues that you usually fight, but we have been fighting a lot more forward grip issues with this new car than we have in the past because they take off so fast early in a run. It will be interesting to see what the left-rear tire wear will look like during runs.”
