Kevin Harvick didn’t hold back his opinion on Alex Bowman’s disqualification at the recent race Charlotte Roval Race during his podcast, “Kevin Harvick’s Happy Hour”. Bowman failed the post-race inspection and his 18th place finish at the Charlotte Roval on October 13 was thrown out.
As a result of the disqualification, Joey Logan advanced to the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs Round of 8 and Bowman is now on the outside looking in at the Playoffs. This past Sunday Logano won the South Point 400 at Las Vegas to automatically advance to the Round of 4 and a possible third Cup Series championship.
“I was surprised, but it also told me that they were guilty,” Harvick stated. “I think, at that point, when you know that you don’t have a leg to stand on, you just have to go and kind of say, ‘We messed up,’ and I love the fact that Jeff Gordon said, ‘Hey, we cut it too close. We put ourselves out there, and that’s it,’ and that’s the end of the story.
“I think that, as you go through and you listen to everything that happened, it sounds like they rolled through right on the number, and you get a tolerance right after the race, and that number was lower than what NASCAR was giving the teams and gives the teams every week.”
Harvick stopped short of any cheating accusations towards Alex Bowman’s No. 48 squad but readily acknowledged that the team put itself in a precarious situation with the car’s setup.
“They go back and they give you the opportunity to fill your car up with oil, and put your water back in there, but I think it’s — it’s a tough calculation, but when you put yourself in that position of cutting it that close, you have to know the consequences, and this consequence was pretty big.”
Despite the setback at the Roval, Bowman finished fifth at the South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on October 20. Harvick spoke highly of Bowman and his performance at Las Vegas.
“Think about it from Alex’s standpoint,” Harvick said. “When you think about it from Alex’s standpoint, what a year, with talking about losing his job, getting thrown out of the playoffs after you make the playoffs, and the the things that he’s had to mentally go through, the guy is obviously pretty mentally tough, because he went to Vegas this week and you know, ran well. Showed up to perform and did what he was supposed to do, from his standpoint,”
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