Milestone start comes this weekend in the AAA Texas 500
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Kevin Harvick‘s 500th career Sprint Cup Series start is set for this weekend at Texas Motor Speedway in the AAA Texas 500 (Sunday, 3 p.m. ET, ESPN) and Stewart-Haas Racing has shared the special paint scheme he will run.
REVEAL: The No. 4 @Budweiser Chevy that @KevinHarvick will race at Texas to commemorate his 500th start. pic.twitter.com/KNV2lYcn73
— Stewart-Haas Racing (@StewartHaasRcng) October 29, 2014
As you can see above, there is a special “500” marker on the hood as well as on each side near his car number on his No. 4 Chevrolet.
Harvick is in his first season with Stewart-Haas after a 13-year tenure with Richard Childress Racing. Harvick enters the Texas race eighth in the point standings after a 33rd-place showing at Martinsville Speedway in the opening race of the Eliminator Round of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. A win at either Texas or Phoenix would lock Harvick into the Championship Round at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
On the season, Harvick has three wins, 11 top-five finishes, 17 top-10 finishes and eight Coors Light Pole Awards and remains one of the eight drivers vying for the Sprint Cup championship.
Coming into his 500th career Sprint Cup race, Harvick has 26 career Cup wins. His first career Sprint Cup win came in just his third career start when he scored a victory at Atlanta in 2001. Harvick moved up into the sport’s premier series that season after the season-opening Daytona 500 following the passing of NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt.
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