{"id":159469,"date":"2025-08-19T22:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/159469\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T22:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T22:10:10","slug":"kevin-harvick-snubs-kyle-larson-while-naming-nascars-real-regular-season-standouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/159469\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Harvick Snubs Kyle Larson While Naming NASCAR\u2019s Real Regular Season Standouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASCAR<\/a>\u2019s 2025 Cup Series regular season is coming to a close with Daytona being the finale. While many drivers had splendid runs, NASCAR veteran Kevin Harvick had a list of drivers who did better than the rest. The two names at the top do not have Kyle Larson in them, and for good reason.<\/p>\n

Who Are Kevin Harvick\u2019s Top Picks for the 2025 Regular Season?<\/p>\n

Several drivers have been impressive in the 25 races so far. Be it Carson \u201cHurricane\u201d Hocevar\u2019s nonchalant and fearless racecraft. Or how rookie Shane van Gisbergen has bagged four wins in his maiden season so far, becoming the winningest rookie in the sport\u2019s history. Finally, even Joe Gibbs Racing driver Chase Briscoe has been impressive.<\/p>\n

The Indiana native took over Martin Truex Jr\u2019s #19 car this season\u00a0and did justice to it. In his first season with JGR, Briscoe managed to win. But where he\u2019s been most spectacular is with the pace. Briscoe\u2019s currently the leader with the most pole starts for the season (6).<\/p>\n

However, Harvick\u2019s picks are completely different. First up is the 2025 regular-season champion, William Byron, who was hardly a guess. The #24 driver first won the Daytona 500\u00a0and was the most consistent among the lot: two wins, nine top-5s, and 13 top-10s. While Byron had a rocky start to the season, he seemed to have found his form as the season progressed.<\/p>\n

MORE: Kevin Harvick Draws Powerful Connection Between Austin Dillon\u2019s Richmond Win and RCR\u2019s Past Greatness<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking of Byron\u2019s season so far, Harvick said,<\/a> \u201cWhen I look at it, William Byron has won two races, and when I think of his season as a whole, it\u2019s been pretty up and down, but I think that they\u2019ve performed pretty well. I think next-gen racing in general is more inconsistent than what we\u2019ve been used to in the past, and I think you\u2019re going to have more DNFs, you\u2019re going to have more off weeks. And how do you minimize those off weeks? But as I look at this list, I can\u2019t pick anybody out that\u2019s had a better regular season.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, the way things started, no one would have thought Byron would finish on top after the regular season concluded. This was thanks to Kyle Larson getting a stellar start to the season. In the first 12 races, Larson had already won three times\u00a0and finished eight times in the top 5. So naturally, he was comfortably leading the points table. But after his double attempt failed, Larson hasn\u2019t yet found that early-season form, which had Harvick keep him off his list. Rather, he has Denny Hamlin on it as a top finisher.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that Kyle Larson started off like a ball of fire after the Indy 500. He hasn\u2019t been that car that\u2019s been capable of leading laps, dominating, and putting himself in position to win a race. Quietly, he finished sixth this weekend at Richmond. So, I don\u2019t really know where they are as far as Kyle Larson, but I could argue maybe for the five. But I think that William Byron and Denny Hamlin have probably been the best two cars,\u201d Harvick added.<\/p>\n

Hamlin and SVG are the only two drivers to win four races so far, and thanks to this, the #11 driver will most likely be the top-seeded driver entering the playoffs. Hamiln currently has 24 playoff points to his name, which would give him a good start in the round of 16.<\/p>\n

Well, with the playoffs kicking off soon, the drivers who qualified will have a clean slate to compete for that championship. Let\u2019s see who comes out on top in the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR\u2019s 2025 Cup Series regular season is coming to a close with Daytona being the finale. While many…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":159470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-159469","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\/115057723124855861","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159469","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=159469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}