{"id":319989,"date":"2025-10-21T01:44:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T01:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/319989\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T01:44:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T01:44:10","slug":"kevin-harvick-skeptical-of-nascars-proposed-horsepower-bump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/319989\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Harvick Skeptical of NASCAR\u2019s Proposed Horsepower Bump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whispers of a <a href=\"https:\/\/backfirenews.com\/apple-tv-secures-exclusive-formula-one\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">power surge<\/a> in NASCAR\u2019s premier series have fans buzzing, but veteran driver Kevin Harvick isn\u2019t buying the hype.<\/p>\n<p>On his podcast, the retired champ dropped this blunt take: When officials secretly tested juiced-up Next Gen engines, the pilot supposedly didn\u2019t even notice the bump. Talk about anticlimactic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/backfirenews.com\/pink-corvette-stingray-talladega\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Pink Corvette Stingray To Lead NASCAR\u2019s Talladega Race as Pace Car<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This comes hot on the heels of RFK Racing\u2019s Brad Keselowski coming out about NASCAR eyeballing a jump from 670 to 750 ponies. Sure, gearheads have been clamoring for more grunt to liven up the show\u2014Next Gen\u2019s reception has been lukewarm at best\u2014but Harvick threw cold water on that idea. \u201cIt needs a ton of horsepower. It needs to be faster,\u201d Announced the 49-year-old, echoing a growing chorus of old-schoolers who think modern rides drive like refrigerators compared to the beasts of yesteryear.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/backfirenews.com\/mustang-cup-north-america\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Mustang Cup North America Expands With New Tracks and Bigger Opportunities for 2026<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Engine builder Doug Yates of Roush Yates Engines previously noted that a move to 750 horsepower \u201cwouldn\u2019t be much of a change,\u201d adding to doubts that such a tweak would have a noticeable on-track impact. NASCAR\u2019s Senior Vice President of Competition Elton Sawyer recently confirmed that any horsepower adjustment would not arrive until 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Harvick also pointed out the irony in NASCAR\u2019s cost-control argument, noting that despite horsepower reductions in recent years, engine prices didn\u2019t decline. \u201cWhen they lowered the horsepower, the price of the engines went up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>With zero confirmation about which tracks might get the alleged power bump, if any, the whole debate remains stuck in neutral. Typical NASCAR drama\u2014lots of noise, minimal action.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailydownforce.com\/kevin-harvick-on-nascars-proposed-horsepower-increase-drivers-couldnt-even-tell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\tContinue Reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whispers of a power surge in NASCAR\u2019s premier series have fans buzzing, but veteran driver Kevin Harvick isn\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":319990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-319989","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\/115409627845978862","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319989","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=319989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}