No. 5 Kevin Harvick
Kevin Harvick is in a bit of a freefall. After rattling off four straight top-10s, he has not finished better than 11th in his past three races.
Sunday's race at Talladega Superspeedway doesn't look that much more promising.
He dropped three places in the standings, from second to fifth, after a 19th place finish at Phoenix International Raceway two weeks ago. He's still in the top five in the Cup standings, but his team has slipped a little in recent weeks.
“I think we’ve run really well. We’ve been very consistent. We haven’t shown that dominance on a week-to-week basis as far as being able to lead a bunch of laps we still have to work to do," said Harvick, driver of the No. 29 Chevrolet for Richard Childress Racing. "We have been very consistent over the first several weeks and we have to maintain that consistency. When we’ve had a bad day we’ve kept it so it’s not a 30th or 25th-place bad day."
Harvick's team is bringing the same car he raced in the Daytona 500. That car finished 14th.
But Harvick had four straight top-10 finishes after the Daytona race and worked his way up to second in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series standings.
He has two top-10s in his past three races at Talladega, but in his last race there, he finished 20th.
“It makes you feel good when you can win the pole like we did in 2005 but it really doesn’t matter where you start," said Harvick. "A big part of the race is how your car works with other cars, staying out of the wrecks and putting yourself in a position for the last few laps to win the race.”



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