Kevin Harvick says he won't 'disappear' after retiring from NASCAR when not in TV booth

Kevin Harvick may be retiring from getting behind the wheel, but don’t expect him to disappear from NASCAR entirely.

Aside from his duties with FOX, beginning with the 2024 Daytona 500, Harvick explained to FOX’s Bob Pockrass that he’ll still be around racing, especially throughout the NASCAR season.

“That all depends on [my son] Keelan’s racing schedule. If he’s racing, I’ll be at a racetrack. For a lot of the guys that have retired or not driven anymore, I think, for us, we have a very different plan because racing is our life. And I learned a long time ago when we tried to do other businesses and different things that we didn’t really understand how to do anything else other than race,” Harvick said. “So we’ve really structured the post-driving career around racing. We have a super late model team, two late model stock teams, we have Keelan’s racing, we have the golf-cart business that’s very racing-oriented. We have the management company that will have nine or 10 drivers and sponsors.

“There was no way that I was walking away from 30-some years of relationships that we’ve built through the years [and] with Keelan’s racing. I like being around people that are in racing. For me, post-driving is still racing. And that is what I like to do. “

Additionally, Harvick added that his goal is to continue to attend at least one race every three to four weeks, even if he’s not in the television booth, for numerous reasons.

“I’m not going to disappear,” Harvick stated. “My goal is to try not to go more than three or four weeks without being at the racetrack, even if I’m not in the TV booth because we still have a responsibility with our drivers and sponsors and people that we represent to go and stay relevant and pay attention to what they’re doing in the car. And one of the ways that we got to where we are is by shaking hands and having conversations and meeting new people and taking it in from a different perspective. Whether it’s people in the garage or even NASCAR.

“I’ve developed such a good relationship with the folks from NASCAR from top to bottom that I like being around everybody from those things that we do. We’re still going to be heavily involved on the racing side. I’m just not driving.”

We’ll miss Kevin Harvick behind the wheel, but it’s awesome to know he won’t be leaving NASCAR entirely, and his presence will still be felt.