Bad Seasons: Kevin Harvick 2002 

Welp so much for the test drive

"How about a test drive?"

“How about a test drive?” *Flashes to big wreck*

5:30 That leap over Greg Biffle's car, if you can find footage of it, is LEGENDARY.

Terrible year for Harvick. He was parked by NASCAR and he was the first to be parked by the series since DK Ulrich. Just a frustrating year, Harvick had a lot of success in 2001 but he ruffled a lot of driver's feathers like Bobby Hamilton and Ricky Rudd. But after 2001, he suffered the worst year of his career in 2002 and had a lot of crashes and miscues. He did pull the spin and win in Chicago but other than that the year was trash. 2003 was loads better and he eventually matured and turned into the dominant driver he was meant to be.

His 03-06 paint schemes were my absolute favorite

Yeah I’m a lifelong Harvick fan and this season was hell. I think 2009 was just as bad as 2002 though . Highlight of 2009 was him dominating the 2nd Atlanta race and finishing 2nd.

May I recommend Brad Keselowski - 2013? One of the most disappointing turnarounds after winning a championship the year before.

What a waste of a great paint scheme

Believe or not, 2003 was Harvick's first full season since he was parked in '02 and did not run the Daytona 500 in 2001 since Earnhardt started the race in the #3.

Jeff Green- 2003 (Got let go by RCR after bagging Harvick, then struggled at DEI) Kasey Kahne- 2016 (How you can not lead a SINGLE lap driving for Hendrick Motorsports is a joke) Brad Keslowski- 2013 (Terrible backup to a championship) Kurt Busch- 2012 (Just a downright shocking season) Kyle Petty- 2002 (Once again just a downright shocking season) David Gilliland- 2007 (Very over hyped especially after getting the Pole for the Daytona 500, turned in to a very bad season) Tony Stewart- 2006 (Terrible backup to a championship) Johnny Benson- 2003 (After a pretty promising 2002, he was poor in 2003 and never got a full time cup ride again) Brian Vickers- 2004 (Very hyped after winning 2003 Busch championship, struggled dearly)

9:33 To be fair, the entire organization struggled that year. They weren't up to speed compared to the year before and the following season.

Harvick had terrible that year as well as 2009. But what's impressive about that is: Harvick has finished in the top3 in points in all but two seasons since his miserable 2009 campaign (2012 & 2016).

Nascar overreacted so bad on Harvick for that spin. They parked him in the truck race then parked him again in Winston cup. I get that he was being wild that year, but man thats a lot

Bust: Reed Sorenson?

not sure if you could do a video on him because he didn't have too much coverage that year but Terry Labonte from 2001 would be my suggestion. teammate car to that year's champion yet and average finish of 24.1, average start of 30.8 and not a single lap led. boy, Hendrick didn't put a whole lot of stock into that car in 2001 lol or maybe if you wanted to do a "Good Seasons" video, Terry's 2003 season would be one

I just realized today that Harvick was 35th in points in 2002 after 14 races. 😳 It was that bad.

2002 season was supposted to be Harvick's first Cup full season for #30 America Online Chevrolet.

"How bout a test drive?" *Cuts to cars wrecking all over the track*

Man 2002 seems like forever ago yet I miss those days, back when nascar was awesome to watch.

i think harvicks career really took off around 2010 after all the big dogs retired (martin, jarrett, labonte, rusty) so overall i would rank him below all these legends, but dont get me wrong he was pretty good, a top 50 driver in all nascar history, so thats still pretty impressive

Dale Jarrett - 2003

That "test drive" was a little to intense

Bad year, but that car looked so good.

When I first saw 0:18, I thought the wreck was part of the commercial lol

Bad Seasons: Kevin Harvick 2009 Kevin Harvick 2009 Stats Wins: 0 Top 5s: 5 Top 10s: 9 Poles: 0 Final Standing: 19th

0:18 The test drive of a Ford after it hits over 100000 miles

Just to simplify for the fans who don't know. Since 2004, any driver that misses the playoffs, knows they didn't had a great season. For example ⬇️ Jeff Gordon won four races in 2005, including the Daytona 500. His year was trash BECAUSE he scored 9 DNF's which were more than his wins & top5s that season. Tony Stewart missed the playoffs in 2006 because he didn't accumulated enough points to be in it. He still won five races, three in the playoffs. Would've finished 2nd in points had he been apart of it. Lacking consistency cost him. Kyle Busch won four races in 2009, again, missed the playoffs because his season was more of a win or bust situation. Wrecks & engine failures denied his ticket towards the playoffs. Jamie McMurray won the Daytona 500 in 2010 & scored two more wins including the Brickyard 400. But nonetheless, struggled for the most part & had too many bad finishes as an end result. Jimmie Johnson won 3 races in 2017, had 1 top5 the rest of the season after his Dover win. Johnson has gone 9 races currently without a top10 finish. Johnson earned 4 top5s & 11 top10s which tells me his year was pathetic despite 3 Wins. So anybody that tells me that even if you win 3-5 races a season, guess what I DON'T CARE!!! You can win your races all you want, but you have to fill the rest of that gap with Top5s, Top10s, laps led, average finish, stage points, playoff points, etc. That's what matters.

I just thought about this, but why was this race on NBC and not Fox?

I can see the improvement you have had. You sound like a robot in this video but now you more enthusiastic and upbeat.

Poor DJ. He was gonna sell a car.

I love these bad season videos you do. A lot of falls like to forget those bad seasons and put themselves in denial that it never happened. Thank you for helping it fresh in our memories, lol.

Imagine if this happened today with the fanbase we have? Have to pit due to a lug nut missing. What?! Parked for a simple retaliation spin... and no don't try to compare this to Kenseth and Logano.

0:18- so how about a test drive *metal scrapping* THATS A BUNCH OF THEM OH MY GOODNESS

I am a Harvick Fan but I'm glad He got suspended From Martinsville that year That was stupid of Him to Hunt down Coy Gibbs

Good video. I started following Kevin in 2001 and remember just how awful this season was. I found it interesting you pulled clips from Busch and truck races too I like that. Personally I think his 2009 season was actually worse, but I suppose that's another video for down the road.

2009 was worse for me as a Harvick fan. at least got a win in 2002, 2009 was barely any better in points and thanks to Bowyer spinning with 17 to go at Atlanta, he went winless that year.

Here after listening to Harvick podcast episode of DJD. He really points to 2002 as being rough.

Why did you get really quiet when you said Earnhardt

And this season began the Biffle Vs Harvick rivalry

2009 was quite bad to his standards as well.

can you do Mark Martin in 2011?

Bad seasons: Joey Logano 2017

See that's that bs, when harvick said that, and Danica said that a million times, and they did jack shit

Bad Seasons: Denny Hamlin 2013

Nascar has a way of always going to commercial at the worst time

Do Joey Logano 2017

0:14 Guess that test drive didn’t go so well.

2003/2004 rusty wallace.

I miss that number 8 Budweiser

Nice video dude

Bad Season Jamie McMurray 2017- 2018 Bad Season Clint Bowyer 2017

Best Thumbnail Ever

7:10 aka the officials saying to Harvick, "GET OFF THE RACETRACK, MR. NAUGHTY!"

2019 will be another bad season because of the new mustang.

Is it just me or does this video have an ominous feeling like it is cursed or something?

Dale spins someone, bump and run. anyone else spins someone, "your done for the day"

He needed to be parked that weekend. Not only starting fights with other drivers, but multiple issues, AND they were both in lower series.

From the comments it appears you shld do Harvick - 2009 also

I don't know whether he did or not, but I'm pretty sure that in Biffle's position I would have wet my pants

We need more uploads BFM! More Busts! More Bad or Good Seasons! Love your videos would love to see 3 uploads a week! Even 2 would be awesome.

Kevin was bad boy heated argument at Bristol and too aggressive at Martinsville

Do a truex video

Sucks he did so bad, that was my favorite paint scheme he had.

Bad Sean’s is: Danica Patrick (yes there is no numbers)

But that was a good looking paint scheme he had in 2002

that move gordon put on harvic was sick! !..!

How about Harvick's 2009 season at some point?

If Jimmie Johnson’s bad beginning of the season continues do him for this season

Dale Jarrett- 2003. He really fell off a cliff that year.

Although Kevin Harvick had the unenviable task of filling the enormous shoes vacated by the late Dale Earnhardt, ultimately RCR was right to promote him to the Cup Series as a replacement. He showed that while he may have had a challenging second season, he was just as capable of being a top driver as The Intimidator was

Can you do a kevin harvick 2006 or 2010 season

3:35 surprised hiro mashima didn't sponsor him at some point.

Lol 600th Subscriber, keep the good job dude!

Do Bad seasons Jeff Gordon 2008-2010 Please.

Bad seasons: Daniel Suarez 2018

I like Harvick mildily as a fan like 60-40 on a scale of 100

Need Bad Seasons 2005 for Jeff Gordon

Can you do a Bad season on Martin Truex Jr

Bad seasons: Dale Jr 2009-2010

Loved the video! I hope you keep making more 👍

2009 for Harv was just as bad.

NASCAR Busts: Jack Sprague

This hurts as a harvick fan

8:57

"I'm gonna go get him" can have a double meaning if you're a NASCAR driver. I hope that wasn't verbatim what he said to get parked. I would've gone ballistic over that.

Kevin Harvick is the worst driver in nascar than Mike Waltrip in 2008

I like your videos on RU-vid

5:42 "kevin, kevin!, KEVIN!!!"

Unhappy Harvick

1st also really good video

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Do 2015 Kyle Larson

tough break

Kasey Kahne- 2005

Who was in the 66 car during the big one

Bobby labonte - 2005

Harvick 2009?

Dale jr 2017