As Kevin Harvick raced Kyle Busch with unmistakable aggression during the early stages of Sunday’s NASCAR race at Pocono, it became obvious that the rivalry between the two drivers is far from over.
Pocono Shows It’s Far From Over Between Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch
Well, at least in Harvick’s mind.
“He knows he has one coming,” Harvick told ESPN.com’s David Newton after the race. “I just wanted him to think about it.”
Busch, though, wanted no part of the mind games. As he’s done since the drivers’ incident at Darlington – and even through the now-infamous Kansas altercation with Richard Childress, Harvick’s owner – Busch seems to want no part of the drama, preferring to focus on his racing.
Harvick, though, seems to have no intentions of letting that happen.
“I was running my own race – it was another car I had to pass,” Busch said after finishing third on Sunday. “Seemed like he was trying to make it awfully difficult on me. There’s a couple times where I just had to back off and wait, got back to him and tried to pass him again.”
So what did Busch take from Harvick’s aggressiveness toward him on the track?
“Maybe kind of shows his character and who he is, how he feels he needs to race on the racetrack,” Busch said. “But it’s not my fight. He’s trying to turn it into one.”
For the record, both drivers will be off probation for their Darlington incident by the time NASCAR arrives in Michigan later this week.
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