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NASCAR: Like it or not, Kevin Harvick is 100% correct

By Asher Fair

WATKINS GLEN, NY - AUGUST 05: Kevin Harvick, driver of the #4 Busch Beer Ford, stands in the garage area during practice for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series I Love NY 355 at The Glen at Watkins Glen International on August 5, 2017 in Watkins Glen, New York. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images)
WATKINS GLEN, NY - AUGUST 05: Kevin Harvick, driver of the #4 Busch Beer Ford, stands in the garage area during practice for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series I Love NY 355 at The Glen at Watkins Glen International on August 5, 2017 in Watkins Glen, New York. (Photo by Sean Gardner/Getty Images) /
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LONG POND, PA – JULY 30: Dale Earnhardt Jr., driver of the #88 Nationwide Chevrolet, stands on the grid prior to the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Overton’s 400 at Pocono Raceway on July 30, 2017 in Long Pond, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images)
LONG POND, PA – JULY 30: Dale Earnhardt Jr., driver of the #88 Nationwide Chevrolet, stands on the grid prior to the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Overton’s 400 at Pocono Raceway on July 30, 2017 in Long Pond, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images) /

Why should Dale Earnhardt Jr. be an exception?

Dale Earnhardt Jr. was popular within the sport thanks to the fact that his father, Dale Earnhardt, was a fan-favorite who won seven championships before he was tragically killed in an accident at the end of the 2001 Daytona 500.

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Other than the fact that his father was who he was, why else would Earnhardt Jr. be more popular than numerous active former champions of the sport such as Matt Kenseth, Kurt Busch, Kevin Harvick, Brad Keselowski or Kyle Busch? And most questionably of all, why is he more popular than Jimmie Johnson, one of only three seven-time champions of the sport?

Naturally, the Dale Earnhardt Jr. fans, and many other fans of the sport since he is so popular, will be in denial to the facts (yes, facts) that Harvick presented. Yet those same people will complain about how the popularity of the sport is decreasing and threaten to leave the sport once Earnhardt Jr. officially retires.

Here’s why those fans are wrong.

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