{"id":140741,"date":"2025-08-12T22:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T22:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/140741\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T22:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T22:01:09","slug":"kevin-harvick-reacts-to-kyle-larson-talladega-nights-controversial-nascar-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/140741\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Harvick reacts to Kyle Larson, Talladega Nights controversial NASCAR take"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kyle Larson<\/strong> turned some heads last week when he joined Julian Edelman<\/a><\/strong>\u2018s podcast, Games with Names, and was asked for his thoughts on the movie Talladega Nights. The 2006 film featured a healthy dose of comedy around a famous crew member turned driver, Ricky Bobby<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

It was fairly well received at the time, though Larson thinks it did the sport a disservice. He\u2019s a fan of the movie in general, he just believes it didn\u2019t necessarily aid the sport the way it could have.<\/p>\n

Kevin Harvick <\/strong>reacted to Larson\u2019s comments on Talladega Nights on this week\u2019s episode of Kevin Harvick\u2019s Happy Hour<\/a> podcast. He began:<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought it was hilarious,\u201d Harvick said. \u201cI liked it. I mean Talladega Nights 2, I know where we could re-enact the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harvick\u2019s latter reference was to the fact that he\u2019s apparently moving into the house that Ricky Bobby lived in during the movie, on Lake Norman in North Carolina. He didn\u2019t sound thrilled with how things were going as he gets set to move in, though.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s coming,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s at the miserable point of building a house. Miserable. Yeah. Tired of paying for it and taking too long.\u201d<\/p>\n

In any case, the views on Talladega Nights are split. And given the way the movie plays out, Larson\u2019s complaint is at least understandable.<\/p>\n

Kyle Larson breaks down Talladega Nights<\/p>\n

Nearly 20 years ago, Ricky Bobby and Jean Girard<\/strong> sprinted on foot to the finish line at Talladega Superspeedway after crashing on the final lap. Bobby\u2019s best friend Cal Naughton Jr.<\/strong>, who had crashed out along with the rest of the field, was named the official winner of the race. It was an entertaining end to Talladega Nights, and Kyle Larson was one of the many who enjoyed the film.<\/p>\n

Larson, however, isn\u2019t convinced that Talladega Nights had a positive impact on NASCAR. Larson explained why he believes the film \u201cturned our sport into a joke\u201d on the Games with Names podcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cI liked the movie. Think it did not do anything good for our sport. I think it turned our sport into a joke, unfortunately,\u201d Larson said. \u201cThat\u2019s gotta be one of the most popular racing movies. \u2026 But the rest of the world, I feel like that\u2019s what they think of our sport now.\u201d<\/p>\n

On3\u2019s Nick Geddes also contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kyle Larson turned some heads last week when he joined Julian Edelman\u2018s podcast, Games with Names, and was…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":140742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-140741","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\/115018051428548008","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140741","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=140741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}