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Harvick not happy with fourth
DAVID POOLE, dpoole@charlotteobserver.com
Sunday, Jul. 15, 2007
JOLIET, Ill. -- Kevin Harvick brought his No. 29 Chevrolet home fourth in Sunday’s race but kept looking for a little bit more.
“It’s a little challenging due to the fact you want to go better,” said Harvick, who led for 54 laps but always seemed to be just a tick behind Tony Stewart and Jimmie Johnson for much of the day. “Even when we were leading we didn’t have the car like we needed and we were struggling. But we kept at it.”
Harvick said the main problem was that the race track seemed to change on him.
“The track kind of swapped tendencies on us there and we wound up being too tight,” he said. “At the beginning, we were too loose.”
| TRACK FACTS Date Opened: 2001 First NWCS Race: July 15, 2001 Qualifying Record: Jeff Gordon, 186.942 mph, (28.886 sec.), 7/9/04 Race Record: Kevin Harvick, 136.832 mph, 7/14/02 Owner: Raceway Associates, LLC General Manager: Matthew T. Alexander Phone: (815) 722-5500 Tickets: (815) 727-7223 Shipping Address: 3200 South Chicago St. Joliet, IL 60434 Mailing Address: PO Box 3339 Joliet, IL 60434-3339 |
TRACK CONFIGURATION Distance: 1.5 Mile Tri-oval Banking in Turns 1-4: 18° Banking on Tri-oval: 11° Banking on Backstretch: 5° Length of Frontstretch: 2,400 ft. Length of Backstretch: 1,700 ft. Grandstand Seating: 75,000 Miles/Laps: 400.5 mi. = 267 laps |