Kevin Harvick
No. 33 Camping World Chevrolet Monte Carlo SS
Team Report
NASCAR Nationwide Series Race 4 of 35 – Atlanta Motor Speedway

SAM’S TOWN 300 RECAP: Following a weekend of rain delays in California, the NASCAR Nationwide Series rolled into sunny Las Vegas Motor Speedway for the Sam’s Town 300. With the entertainment and excitement of the famous Vegas Strip not far away, the drivers of the Nationwide Series put on a show of their own as they took to the track for 300 miles of action-packed racing on Saturday afternoon. Kevin Harvick and the No. 33 Camping World Chevrolet rolled off 10th for the Sam’s Town 300 and continued to run in the top 10 for most of the race. Harvick and the No. 33 team was able to cross the finish line in the fourth position and score their second top-five finish of the season.

HOT ATLANTA STATS: In just six nationwide Series starts at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Harvick has captured one top-five and three top-10 finishes. The only DNF on record for Harvick at this track came during his rookie season (2000) in the Nationwide Series and was his first career start at the track. In 2006, Harvick entered the Nicorette 300 in a Kevin Harvick Inc. (KHI) car, starting the race 30th and finishing just outside the top 10 in the 11th position. This week’s race will mark Harvick’s second start at the track in a KHI Chevrolet.

CHASSIS HISTORY: The No. 33 Camping World team will unload chassis No. 038 at Atlanta Motor Speedway for the Nicorette 300 Saturday, March 8. This chassis made its race debut earlier this year at the Auto Club Speedway of Southern California for the Stater Bros. 300. Starting the race in the sixth position, Harvick brought chassis No. 038 home with a solid third-place finish, his best career finish in a Kevin Harvick Inc. (KHI) car.

100 STRONG: Upon scoring his second top-five in a row this season, Harvick has now recorded 100 top-five finishes in just 195 career starts in the NASCAR Nationwide Series.

KHI DOUBLE ATTACK: For the Nicorette 300 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Kevin Harvick Inc. will have two drivers vying for their first win at the track in the Nationwide Series. In six starts at the track, Harvick’s best Nationwide finish came last year when he finished second. Rookie of the Year contender Cale Gale will make his second start of the season in the No. 77 KHI Rheem Chevrolet. This will mark Gale’s first start at the fast 1.5-mile Atlanta track.

BEFORE THE RACE WITH DRIVER KEVIN HARVICK:
After two top-five finishes, what are your expectations entering Atlanta Motor Speedway for the Nicorette 300 Saturday?: “Every week I look to be up front at the end, and ultimately contend for the win. The past two weeks we’ve had good cars and were able to walk away with good finishes. As a team, we just need to find the consistency each week and carry that from track to track.”

On returning to Atlanta Motor Speedway, the site of his first NSCS Win: "I will be honest with you, that whole first win and that first year was really just kind of a blur. We go back and it just seems like so much has happened since then, you almost forget about it, but every time you go back, you get that reminder of how things went and what went on. It is obviously something you can't do again, win your first race, so it is just pretty cool and go back and watch the race and see how it all finished and how it all shook out. It is a special place for us to go back every time just because of the fact that was the place of our first Cup win.

"When I watch the race, the only thing I think about is I drove in high and I probably should have went low. I almost threw the thing away in a half of a race track there. That is what I think about every time I watch it is why did I go high and not go low.

"It worked, barely, but it worked. I had gotten to that point by racing on the bottom and for some reason on the last lap, I thought he (Jeff Gordon) was going to go high because I had been going on the bottom but, he wound up going to the bottom and I went to the top. "

RACE PREP WITH CREW CHIEF WALLY ROGERS:
Entering Atlanta Motor Speedway with Chassis No. 038, which finished third earlier this year at the Auto Club Speedway of Southern California, what are your expectations?: “I think we have a good shot coming to Atlanta with this chassis and hopefully the momentum of two top-five finishes in a row will carry over. Anytime Kevin (Harvick) gets in the car, you have a shot to win the race and we have put our self in contention the last two weeks and just need to continue having strong runs and being there at the end.

QUICK NOTES
March 8, 2008
Atlanta Motor Speedway
Nicorette 300

Race length: 195 laps/300.3 miles
Banking: 24-degrees in the turns
5-degrees on the straight-a-ways
Track layout: 1.54 miles
Shape: Quad-Oval

Pre-Race Schedule:
Friday:
Practice: 10:10-11:10 a.m., ET
Final Practice: 1:05-2:50 p.m., ET
Saturday:
Qualifying: 9:15 a.m., ET

TV: The Nicorette 300 can be seen live on ESPN2 at 1:30 p.m., ET.
Radio: The Performance Racing Network (PRN) will broadcast the race live at 2:00 p.m., ET.

No. 33 Camping World Chevrolet Monte Carlo Specs:
Chassis: 038
Engine: RCR