{"id":103388,"date":"2025-07-30T00:08:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T00:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/103388\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T00:08:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T00:08:09","slug":"kevin-harvick-sends-warning-on-denny-hamlin-as-nascar-playoffs-near","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/103388\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Harvick sends warning on Denny Hamlin as NASCAR Playoffs near"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the NASCAR<\/strong><\/a> season quickly comes to a close, Denny Hamlin<\/strong> is aiming to do something he has yet to accomplish in his career: win a championship. And Kevin Harvick<\/strong> issued a warning to other drivers along those lines.<\/p>\n

Hamlin has never been in a better position to come through on that goal. Speaking on the Kevin Harvick\u2019s Happy Hour<\/a> podcast, Harvick opened up.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re on a roll of positives here for Denny and we\u2019ve got Iowa, the Glen, Richmond, Daytona left headed into the playoffs,\u201d Harvick said. \u201cIf he can just keep the wheels on it for four weeks without any crazy news that he has to deal with outside of what he\u2019s already dealing with, he\u2019s already pretty good at dealing with it. He\u2019s going to have a chance when we get to the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n

As things stand, Denny Hamlin is sitting fourth in the points standings. He has 706, trailing leader Chase Elliott<\/strong> by just 20 points. Elliott (726), William Byron<\/strong> (722) and Kyle Larson<\/strong> (711) are out in front currently.<\/p>\n

But one thing working in Hamlin\u2019s favor this time around is that there\u2019s much more clarity in where things off the track stand. That\u2019s not to say the backdrop is clean, but it\u2019s more manageable, Harvick said.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year when we started the playoffs this whole thing unleashed. It was a visible bad deal,\u201d Harvick said. \u201cIt was a bad situation for Denny right at the start of the playoffs, Race No. 1 at Atlanta last year. I don\u2019t believe we\u2019re going to go through that this year.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat consistency that they have, and if the bottom doesn\u2019t fall out in the middle of the playoffs, his experience level and the chemistry with the team right now, they\u2019re going to be tough to beat week in and week out in the playoffs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harvick also pointed to Denny Hamlin re-signing with Joe Gibbs Racing as another thing that\u2019s now out of the way. One fewer thing to worry about.<\/p>\n

All that adds up to Denny Hamlin making a serious championship run, according to Harvick. Other drivers be warned.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can say what you want, but the primary focus is winning that championship,\u201d Harvick said. \u201cI mean his legacy is going to be great regardless of whether he wins it, but you know the determination to win that championship is the primary focus, whether he says it or not.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhether he wins 60 or 80 races, whatever that number is doesn\u2019t matter. That championship adds a whole \u2018nother layer to his legacy. And they\u2019re in as good a position as they\u2019ve ever been to go out and do that right now.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the NASCAR season quickly comes to a close, Denny Hamlin is aiming to do something he has…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-103388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114939278681591168","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}