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NASCAR Sprint-Cup Series
CUP: Harvick Happy With His Team
Kevin Harvick and wife DeLana have built a championship NASCAR team.
Tom Jensen  |  Posted March 10, 2010   Charlotte, NC
Kevin Harvick (Left) and DeLana Harvick (Right) are co-owners of Kevin Harvick Inc. (Photo: Getty Images)

Kevin Harvick is in a good spot and he knows it.

Harvick, the current NASCAR Sprint Cup points leader, is in the final year of his contract to drive for Richard Childress Racing. Along with Kasey Kahne, Harvick tops this season's free agent class, and as such will command a sweetheart new deal, whether he stays at RCR for 2011 and beyond or moves on to another team.

Already, Harvick's name has been linked to close friend Tony Stewart's squad, Stewart-Haas Racing, among others, as a possible next destination.

And Harvick is in an enviable spot as a NASCAR team owner as well, with Kevin Harvick Inc., the team he and wife DeLana founded and co-own. KHI already has won a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series championship with Ron Hornaday Jr. behind the wheel, and KHI is one of the stalwarts of the NASCAR Nationwide Series as well.

KHI also has a booming fabrication business in the Truck and Nationwide Series, where it builds race vehicles for teams as well as doing repair work and custom one-offs.

So far this year, Harvick has steered away from talking much about his 2011 plans, although at the moment, it doesn't sound as if moving KHI up to the Cup level next year is likely to happen.

Asked about his ultimate plans for KHI, Harvick said he was uncertain at this point.

“I think it could go anywhere,” Harvick said Wednesday morning at RCR's headquarters in Welcome, N.C. “I think it could be whatever it needs to be. Right now, it's important to stay focused on the trucks and the Nationwide car like we are.”

Beyond that, the future is wide open.

“There are a few things that are unknown, to decide a direction today, but we're very focused on what we're doing now,” Harvick said. “As far as what the future holds, it could go a number of different directions if it had to.”

What about moving KHI up to the Sprint Cup Series, the pinnacle of NASCAR racing?

“It would have to be 100 percent the right situation,” Harvick said. “It's just a huge financial risk. The risks that we've taken up to this point have been affordable for me to take. And the company has been successful enough to where those risks have paid off, and financially, it hasn't been a burden. But I'm not going to risk everything that I've worked for in my driving career to make that place go, so it would have to be supported correctly financially to even take the risk.”

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