Kevin Harvick predicts who will win NASCAR Cup Championship in 2024

With only four races remaining in the regular season on the other side of the Olympics, Kevin Harvick is giving his NASCAR championship prediction. The Closer is getting ready to take time off as well in the upcoming break, but not before giving one last take.

Kevin Harvick and his podcast co-hosts debate and discuss all topics related to NASCAR. Usually, they give their race winner predictions. However, this week, Harvick, Kaitlyn Vincie, and Mamba Smith made their NASCAR Cup Series championship predictions.

When it comes to the championship, both VIncie and Harvick are all-in. Or should I say, A11-IN?

“We’re Team 11 [Denny Hamlin],” Harvick said on Happy Hour this week.

Mamba Smith disagreed.

“I said it earlier, I think it’s time to see a back-to-back champion, we haven’t seen one since Jimmie Johnson. Ryan Blaney, Team Penske, the 12 group, Jonathan Hassler, they are going to go back-to-back this year and make it three in a row for Team Penske as a whole.”

That is a bold statement from Smith. Making it to back-to-back Championship 4s is hard enough. Christopher Bell is the only driver to have made the Championship 4 each year of the Next Gen car, 2022 and 2023.

While Kevin Harvick is “A11-IN” on Denny Hamlin, he does have concern for one of Hamlin’s teammates…

Kevin Harvick expresses concern about Ty Gibbs

Ty Gibbs was the victim of another Joe Gibbs Racing engine issue on Sunday during the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Kevin Harvick pointed out that it feels like we’ve seen this movie before, with JGR and Toyota, and it’s something Gibbs and company need to figure out before the playoffs begin, as he explained on the latest episode of Harvick’s Happy Hour.

“I just feel like that, and we’ve seen this before with, you know, the engine group at Toyota, when you have these moments, you have to be on edge, because we’ve seen it happen in the playoffs, and now we’ve had four of these moments, that we know of, that have happened, in a pretty short amount of time. So, there’s obviously an issue there,” Harvick explained. “You’re going to have to shift. There’s going to be high RPM racetracks. You’re going to have to go to these places. You shift pretty much everywhere that you go, except for the speedways, and so these engine issues are a huge concern for me as you go into the playoffs, because it seems like they could pop up at any moment. You know, with whatever’s happening to the engines.