Kyle Larson recalls a run-in with Kevin Harvick at Phoenix Raceway that had the No. 5 driver intimidated but ended smoothly.
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00:00 - From Bianca, the Athletic.
00:01 Do you have a favorite, kind of two part,
00:03 do you have a favorite Kevin Harvick story on the track?
00:06 Like encounter or exchange or anything?
00:08 - On the track? - On the track, yeah.
00:10 - I don't know, I've just really enjoyed racing with him.
00:13 He's such a tough racer and I feel like he can do
00:18 a lot more with his race car than most drivers can.
00:22 So I've had some great battles with him.
00:25 I think he's only been mad at me like one time,
00:29 so that's pretty good, I feel like.
00:30 He probably doesn't even remember when he was mad.
00:35 - What was he mad about?
00:37 - It was Phoenix, I don't know, a long time ago,
00:40 and he was battling to make it into the championship four.
00:45 There was a restart and I think it was like,
00:48 I think Joey ended up winning the race,
00:50 but he was second row, I was third row inside.
00:53 And I didn't even get in there,
00:55 but I just kind of showed my nose.
00:58 And he was mad about that and came down afterwards.
01:02 I can't remember exactly what he said,
01:04 but I explained to myself that he wasn't gonna win anyways.
01:08 He was fine with it afterwards.
01:12 I was like, "Whoa, that went smoother
01:14 "than I thought it was going to."
01:15 He was walking over, I was pretty scared.
01:17 So yeah, he's just an intense guy
01:19 and I've made it a point this year to not piss him off
01:24 because he's probably on his zero (beep) given tour.
01:27 So didn't want to be on the receiving end of anything.