Kevin Harvick is a professional stock racing driver. He began kart racing at an early age. He achieved considerable success on the go-kart racing circuit, earning seven national championships and two Grand National championships. He was destined for racing glory.
A veteran of stock car racing, he competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 4 Ford Mustang for Stewart-Haas Racing as of 2021. He is the 2014 NASCAR Cup Series champion, as well as the 2001, and 2006 Xfinity Series champion and 2007 Daytona 500 winner. Also as of 2021, Harvick holds the all-time record for Cup Series wins at Phoenix Raceway with nine. Harvick's 119 combined national series wins currently rank him third all-time in NASCAR history (2021), behind Richard Petty and Kyle Busch respectively, while his 58 Cup wins are the ninth most in series history. He is the second longest tenured active driver in the Cup series in terms of career starts, behind Kurt Busch. Harvick, who began his NASCAR career in 1992, is the third of only five drivers that have won a championship in both the Cup Series and the Xfinity Series, and the fifth of only thirty-four drivers to win a race in each of NASCAR's three national series. All these records hold as of Feburary, 2021.
Harvick is the former owner of Kevin Harvick Incorporated, a race team that fielded cars in the Xfinity and Camping World Truck Series between 2004 and 2011.