Kevin Harvick shares his thoughts on the team’s winless season in 2021

Kevin Harvick, the 2014 NASCAR Cup Series champion and perennial title candidate, was philosophic about his 2021 season, which will be his first without a win since 2009.

When asked about the year, Harvick told reporters on Thursday that he finished fifth in the championship in 2021, when he went winless, as he did in 2020, when he won nine races.

“I think our guys did a good job,” Harvick said at the Music City Center before the NASCAR Awards. “Obviously we’d love to have won, but we did a great job in managing the season. I don’t know what it says with how we currently exist with our current system.”

He added with a smile: “We won nine times last year and finished fifth, and we won nothing this year and finished fifth. I don’t really know how to take that, personally.”

Harvick’s streak of 20 or more top-10 finishes now stands at nine years. For the past eight years, he has achieved at least ten top-five finishes. While the No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford was eliminated after the second round of the NASCAR Playoffs, he did manage two top-10 finishes before being derailed at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval. He finished the year with top ten finishes in three of the final four races.

“I thought there were two or three [races] that we were in position to win and for one reason or another, running out of laps or following a roadblock, whatever the scenario was [we didn’t get them],” Harvick said. “I thought Phoenix, the last race of the year, we didn’t do a good job on pit road and to give ourselves a chance but I thought we had one of, or even the best car just needed to finish off track position.

“I think as you look at the season and look at the result, most people would say, ‘How did that happen?’ and that’s just a huge credit to the guys for giving us something manageable at the end of the year.”

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