Kevin Harvick's INSANE Atlanta Technique 

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There’s two things happening here. 1st, the bottom of the racetrack is smoother than the top. After decades of running on the track, the cars erode away the surface of the asphalt where they run the most. This leads to a surface with less grip on the bottom and gradually more grip as you move up (multi groove racing), but what this means is that the top groove chews through tires due to the coarser surface. 2nd, the brakes heat up the wheel rim and transfer energy into the tires. By coasting the car all the way into the corner with no brake, you’re keeping the tire cooler AND lowering your mechanical loads on the entry phase of the corner. Harvick figured out that Atlanta was the most tire wear sensitive track on the calendar and used both of these things to his advantage. Combining these two things made him monstrously faster over the course of the run due to the reduced tire wear.

Watching him perfectly ride the line in the corners is so satisfying

He’s a true master of old Atlanta speedway!!! He’s been my favorite driver since the sad death of dale sr!!3 for life

Good stuff. I was at those Atlanta races. He looked somewhat slow but was extremely fast at the same time. I’ll miss Harvick at Atlanta.

Even when the competition figured out where he was lifting at so early they still couldn't replicate his lap times!! He is a true tactician at the old configuration.

Harvick just figured out Atlanta pre reconfiguration. It was his playground

Funny Jimmy Johnson and Jeff Gordon are always amazing at Martinsville right well if you do your research that is pretty much how they drove Martinsville they would let off just right past the start finish line so that their car was set by the time they got to the corner and then they could drive through the corner instead of having to use the break to try and set the car and fight the car through the corner so it's wild at harvick was doing the same thing at Atlanta and at least in turn one and was absolutely dominant, and at a place like Atlanta with as abrasive as it is driving it how harvick drove it allowed him to save tires big time, blows my mind that no other driver even though they knew what Harvick was doing would try and copy him

Harvick has been my favorite driver ever since he stepped into that Goodwrench car for senior. I can’t think of a situation where a driver was put under more pressure to perform than that. He handled it admirably at that. It will be a sad day when Harvick hangs it up.

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Kevin was one of the best modern day drivers ever. Period

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Kevin using the yellow line like how Takumi uses gutters

Lift and coast baby. Makes total sense, Atlanta was a tire management track. This is the most efficient method to preserve your tires without loosing to much lap time.

2001 would have been his first Cup start for the #30 America Online machine.

Harvick just perfectly figured out the setup and way to drive at Atlanta. Some people just nail everything right and dominate while every other driver tries to figure out how to do it better. Some examples that come to mind are Jimmie Johnson at Dover from 2009-2016, Martin Truex at Charlotte from 2015-2017, and Jeff Gordon at Martinsville from 2003-2010 and at New Hampshire from 1997-2001.

And now Atlanta turned into a Speedway and this absolute ruined Kevin's technique 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ What a shame man

This man is underrated learning these facts and other stuff this man is a true harvick fan.

A few years ago at the brickyard. Kyle Busch won. And he was lifting by the scoring tower. Only driver there lifting that soon. I was there and heard it over and over and over again.

1 of the most bad ass drivers ever go kevin

So glad I found this channel. Isn't my favorite driver by any means but this is awesome. I've heard about "Harvicking" but I thought it just meant he could hold his line really well. Didn't know it was like this!

Tracks that he's been dominate at they've changed something about them all. Atlanta repave and packages, phoenix a total remodel, Chicagoland packages until discontinuation, Bristol they repaved it and made one race dirt I remember him being good at Watkins Glen the last 10 results 1 top 5s and 6 top 10s. Indianapolis they kept changing the packages and now it's a road course, so basically the last 4 tracks that he has the highest average finish below 5 that are left is new Hampshire that has 1 date now Darlington the surface is getting rough but it's back to 2 dates, dover is down to 1 date, and Michigan is down to 1 date

King 👑 Harvick

I’ve never been more hurt than the 09 and 14-17 races especially the 17 race

They shouldve turned texas intoa mini superspeedway and do a simple repave at atlanta

His technique was do to how great of a car he had! Rodney childers is the technique lol

The Gen 6 car seemed to favor low line drivers at Atlanta more. Think it was the high HP, high downforce that made it harder to run the high line. The HP probably would have made running the high line more dominant without all that downforce or Vice Versa.

Now you need to do one on why he was so dominant at Phoenix which in reality they might as well just called it harvick, nine wins or did he end up getting the 10th I don't remember but it was definitely something he was doing there that everybody else was not doing no doubt about it cuz he got those nine wins in like a six year period or something like that maybe seven but still it was insane how many times he won it was kind of like Darrell waltrip's dominance at Bristol

I remember watching that 2018 race where he was lifting at the quarter-mile. i had a similar reaction to Gordon’s 😂

I think with the next gen he may be able to try something similar at Texas since he's been so good there too

I'm glad this video is a thing. The reconfiguration is god awful and the super speedway racing is atrocious. And the 550hp High Downforce was the biggest failure NASCAR has done to the racing product. I wish Atlanta kept it the way it was for the Gen 7s.

I'd love it if u could go more into Harvick's driving style, since it's a aspect of NASCAR that should get a lot more coverage than it does.

The running that specific line takes real talent. Only seen a few guys run a line and stick right along it like they are on train tracks that being Dale jr, Kevin Harvick, Kyle Larson, and I have seen Tyler Reddick do it alot. And from the video I have seen I believe Hailie Deegan is pretty good about her lines as well (just gotta flip that luck switch/ get away from the racers of once was)

So Harvick was basically doing a gutter run by setting his wheels on the yellow line

Every Kyle Busch fan or haters keep saying he's one hell of a wheel man. That's true but how about Harvick who has 58 cup wins to Kyle's 60?

Wow in car shows and sounds of his throttle not being matted more now days. Age.

How about Phoenix ?

One thing im puzzled by, is from 2014 on, how have more teams not picked up on harvicks driving and started copying him? I feel if blaney, or truex did it in 18, i feel like we wouldn’t have seen Harvick win

6:21 just Fox things. It's wild to see they've been this incompetent for so long. What does the guy in charge of the broadcast have on Fox? Dude must know about some real dirty laundry I guess...

Riding the line is impressive yes, but man I wish it was Jimmie instead of this doofus...

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Bad Luck struck Harvick when he switched to Ford.🤓

Boo doo doo head harvick