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NASCAR: Kyle Busch expected Kevin Harvick to race him fair

By Asher Fair

LOUDON, NH - JULY 22: Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 Interstate Batteries Toyota, leads Kevin Harvick, driver of the #4 Busch Beer Ford, during the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on July 22, 2018 in Loudon, New Hampshire. (Photo by Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images)
LOUDON, NH - JULY 22: Kyle Busch, driver of the #18 Interstate Batteries Toyota, leads Kevin Harvick, driver of the #4 Busch Beer Ford, during the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Foxwoods Resort Casino 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on July 22, 2018 in Loudon, New Hampshire. (Photo by Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images) /
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Kyle Busch expected Kevin Harvick to race him fair in the closing laps of the 20th race of the NASCAR Cup Series season, but he does not feel like that happened.

Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch had a slight lead in his #18 Toyota over Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick in his #4 Ford with just seven laps remaining in the 20th race of the 36-race NASCAR Cup Series season, the Foxwoods Casino Resort 301.

With seven laps to go in the 301-lap race, Harvick went to the inside of Busch to try to take the lead heading into turn one of the four-turn, 1.058-mile (1.703-kilometer) New Hampshire Motor Speedway oval in Loudon, New Hampshire. In doing so, he ran into the back of him, moving him up the track.

Here is a video of this contact between the two drivers.

Harvick took the lead as a result of this, and he went on to win the race by 1.877 seconds over Busch in second place. After the race, Busch claimed that he expected Harvick to race him fair and that he does not believe that Harvick attempted to do so.

Here is what Busch had to say about the matter, according to Motorsport.com.

"“When you’re slower, I guess you kind of expect it, but you also think that a guy’s going to race you fair and try to pass you clean first. I don’t think he (Kevin Harvick) ever tried to pass me clean once he got there. He just kept hitting me in the rear bumper each and every time. It was getting increasingly harder.”"

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While these comments are sure to not go over well with a lot of NASCAR’s fanbase given what happened between Busch and Chip Ganassi Racing’s Kyle Larson at the end of the Overton’s 400 at Chicagoland Speedway just over three weeks ago, Busch did make several other comments about the situation with Harvick that were not nearly as critical of him demonstrating that he understands what racing is about.

In these other comments, the 33-year-old was far more classy than a lot of people expected he would be after literally being pushed out of the way by another driver and losing what would have been his sixth victory of the season because of it.

But the comments shown about that Busch made about Harvick are certainly questionable and definitely up for debate.

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Do you believe that Kyle Busch is right about Kevin Harvick not racing him fair, or do you believe that Harvick did race him fair? Do you believe that Busch would have done the exact same thing if he trailed Harvick with seven laps to go in the race? Do you believe that he should expect anybody to race him what he deems “fair” after the finish of the race at Chicagoland Speedway involving him and Kyle Larson?

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