NASCAR Cup Series legend jokes about 'punching' team-mate

NASCAR legend Kevin Harvick has joked that he punches former team-mate turned colleague Clint Bowyer whilst commentating on races.

Harvick had a long and successful career in the Cup Series, winning the 2014 championship and competing in an impressive 826 races before retiring at the end of 2023.

The 49-year-old now calls Cup Series races from the FOX booth, and does so alongside Bowyer, who is also a former team-mate, with both he and Harvick having raced at Richard Childress Racing and Stewart-Haas Racing together.

Now, in a recent interview with The Athletic, Harvick has joked that he punches his former team-mate when asked if he sometimes rolls his eyes at him in the booth: "I usually punch him [Bowyer],"

"I don't roll my eyes. I usually just punch him in the shoulder or grab him around the neck."

Kevin Harvick on broadcasting career

Harvick stepped into the booth full-time in 2,024 and that has continued this year, and he says he now feels he can have a greater opinion on how things go down.

"I have a much better understanding of what my role actually is," he explained.

"I think Year 2 allows me to be more opinionated in things that are happening or happening in the conversation, whether it’s in a production meeting or in the booth or whatever that is, and feel comfortable about not stepping on anybody’s toes.

"Because this is truly a team. It takes a lot of people, just like everything else, and last year I wanted to make sure I understood how it all worked before I started being too opinionated on things."

Later, Harvick compared his broadcasting job to driving a car on track: "I treat it just like I was driving the car. Like everything matters,"

"You want everything to flow and be organized. And I’ve learned that things happen a little later in the TV world than in the driver’s side of the world. It’s a lot closer to the event than what I was used to.

"But that’s just kind of the nature of the beast because there’s just a lot of things that happen week-of because you can’t do it the week before."

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