Kevin Harvick rips NASCAR officiating following Talladega big one: 'Complete shitshow'

Kevin Harvick had plenty to say about the major wreck (or “The Big One”) that happened at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday. On Kevin Harvick’s Happy Hour, Harvick ripped NASCAR for its handling of the wreck that collected 20-plus cars.

“I have a lot of information, but I don’t think I need to go too far because it was a complete shitshow,” Harvick said. Harvick went on to talk about how NASCAR picked and chose the cars to tow after the wreck.

“Well shit, we’ve wrecked enough cars that if we don’t pull all 28 or 25 or how many cars are sitting in the infield, hell I don’t even know if we can have a race,” Harvick stated. “So, you know what, let’s tow this one back, let’s tow that one back, let’s leave this one here, like whose decision is it? Now we’re going to tow completely destroyed race cars and we’re going to tow some back that are really wrecked — 9, 14 — we’re going to two those cars back to the pit stall.”

Kevin Harvick continues to sound off on NASCAR mishap at Talladega

Harvick added: “Let’s just say those cars didn’t get going again, they missed the DVP (Damage Vehicle Policy) clock. So now they’ve crossed these loops and things different than the cars that were in this wreck. Now we are affecting points from all different kinds because you decided to tow this one not that one, this one went that way and that one went this way. …Just by the decisions NASCAR made, we could completely screw up the whole point system in a way this all worked out because of who they decided to two and who they didn’t decide to two. So now we’ve got a mess on our hands with the whole DVP thing and who gets towed back. Just tow them all back to the pit stall, please. Let the team determine who’s going to do what.”

After the race, Elton Sawyer, NASCAR vice president of competition, explained NASCAR’s DVP on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. “With that program and with that policy, we’ve said that we were gonna take a deeper dive into it in the offseason just to make sure it’s still providing the efficiencies, it’s still providing the benefits that we want from that,” Sawyer said. “But be also able to correct some things that obviously hasn’t worked as well with that policy that we’ve liked. Our goal from day one when this policy came into place was not to put good cars or good trucks out of the race.”