In 2011, Budweiser became the sponsor for Kevin Harvick.

Childress ' second-year Busch Series driver Kevin Harvick was named as Earnhardt's replacement driver, beginning with the race following Earnhardt's death held at the North Carolina Speedway.

The Earnhardt team car, the RCR number 29 Chevrolet driven by Kevin Harvick, still always displays the Earnhardt stylized number 3 on the " B " posts ( metal portion on each side of the car to the rear of the front windows ) above the number 29.

* Every three years since Earnhardt's death, someone associated with Earnhardt has won the Daytona 500 ( his son Dale Earnhardt, Jr. in 2004, Earnhardt's replacement Cup driver Kevin Harvick in 2007, and Earnhardt Ganassi's Jamie McMurray in 2010.

* 1975 – Kevin Harvick, American racing driver

It was won by Kevin Harvick, while Quebec native Patrick Carpentier finished second.

However, the 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 champions were all Cup regulars driving the full series schedule ( Kevin Harvick, Carl Edwards, Clint Bowyer, Kyle Busch, and Brad Keselowski ).

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In 2001 NASCAR driver Kevin Harvick opened his shop in Kernersville.

RCR's No. 21 team earned six victories in 2007 with driver Kevin Harvick, and has earned two of the organization's four series championships.

After Earnhardt was killed in the first race of the 2001 season, the company continued its sponsorship with the new driver of Earnhardt's car, Kevin Harvick, through the end of the 2003 season.

In September 2002, Dale Earnhardt Jr. ran ( and won in ) a special Gossamer paint scheme at Richmond International Raceway during the Chevy Rock and Roll 400 weekend in which he and his brother Kerry ran Looney Tunes cars ( Kerry ran a Yosemite Sam car, who was also on Mike Skinner's Winston Cup car the next night ) in the Busch Series race, and nine drivers ( Skinner, Terry Labonte, Jeff Gordon crashed his Bugs Bunny car in final practice for the race and, therefore, the Bugs car never saw race action, Joe Nemechek, Kevin Harvick, Jeff Green, Robby Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, and Greg Biffle place of Bobby Hamilton, who was injured in a Truck Series race two days before ran Looney Tunes paint schemes.

Stewart was driving a Busch series car owned by Kevin Harvick Incorporated at the time.

In addition, Stewart's three wins in the Chase races gave him five total for the season, tying him with Jimmie Johnson and Kevin Harvick for second most in Nextel Cup behind Kasey Kahne's six.

At the All-Star Challenge at Charlotte, he finished 5th behind Kevin Harvick, Jimmie Johnson, Mark Martin, and Jeff Burton.

Current NASCAR stars Scott Riggs, Greg Biffle, Kevin Harvick, Jamie McMurray, Kurt Busch, Carl Edwards, and Kyle Busch each started in the series.

No current Cup regulars drive a full Truck series schedule, although Cup driver Kevin Harvick owned his own team in the series until 2011, and Kyle Busch fields his own team but does not drive for it.

NASCAR stars such as Rusty Wallace, Tony Stewart, Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, Greg Biffle, Kurt Busch, Kyle Petty, Mark Martin, Jamie McMurray, Kevin Harvick, and Robby Gordon have all participated, with Martin and Gordon notably winning several class victories for Roush Racing in the GTO class in the 1980s – 90s.

2003: With 16 laps to go, Kevin Harvick used lap traffic to get by Matt Kenseth on a restart.

Before the caution came out, Kevin Harvick had passed race leader Jamie McMurray for the lead.

The only winners of the 400 never to have won the Cup are Ricky Rudd ( 1997 ), Kevin Harvick ( 2003 ), Jamie McMurray ( 2010 ), and Paul Menard ( 2011 ).

* In 2010, Jimmie Johnson and Kasey Kahne had a combined victory margin of. 019 over second place drivers Kevin Harvick and Tony Stewart

A common misconception is that Richard Childress Racing " owns the rights " to the No. 3 in NASCAR competition ( fueled by the fact that Kevin Harvick's car has a little No. 3 as an homage to Earnhardt and the usage of the No. 3 on the Camping World Series truck of Ty Dillon ), but in fact no team owns the rights to this or any other number: However, according to established NASCAR procedures, RCR would have priority over other teams if and when the time came to reuse the number.

* Kevin Conway, NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver

* Kevin Triplett-Vice President of Public Affairs for Bristol Motor Speedway, former media relations director for GM / Goodwrench, Dale Earnhardt and NASCAR.

* Kevin Grubb, NASCAR driver

As a competitor in college athletics, UCF has many notable student athletes, coaches and staff members, such as NFL players Matt Prater, Daunte Culpepper, Kevin Smith, Brandon Marshall, Asante Samuel, Atari Bigby, Mike Sims-Walker, and Josh Robinson, MLS goalkeeper Sean Johnson, NBA starting guard Jermaine Taylor, NASCAR driver Aric Almirola, Olympic beach volleyball player Phil Dalhausser and soccer star Michelle Akers.

* 2011: Regan Smith stayed out on a late caution when the rest of the field pitted and sweated out a late crash involving Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch to edge Carl Edwards for his first NASCAR win.

Kevin Michael Harvick ( born December 8, 1975 ) is an American NASCAR driver.

Following his retirement from the NBA, Daugherty co-owned a NASCAR Camping World Truck Series team ( Liberty Racing ) featuring such drivers as Kenny Irwin Jr. and Kevin Harvick.

Kevin Harvick is the only other active NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver to win the race with his victory in 2008.

Reese's was a sponsor of NASCAR driver, Kevin Harvick from 2007-2010.

Kevin persuades Maggie to take Herbie to a car show to buy parts for Herbie, but when they arrive, Herbie tricks Maggie into disguising herself in a racing suit and helmet and challenging NASCAR champion Trip Murphy ( Dillon ) to an impromptu race, which Herbie wins by a hair.

** NASCAR Nextel Cup Daytona 500 won by Kevin Harvick

He also runs part-time in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series for Kevin Harvick Incorporated.

The company sponsors Kevin Harvick in the NASCAR Nationwide Series and sponsors Brock Lesnar, the former champion of the UFC's Heavyweight Division.

After moving to NASCAR, he kept his sprint car team going, fielding a car for his brother Dale and the late Kevin Gobrecht.

According to MasGrafx Racing Graphics, Microgamma is the font of several NASCAR numbers ; # 8 ( Mark Martin ), # 3 ( Dale Earnhardt ) and # 29 ( Kevin Harvick ).

Menard has opted to run for the 2011 Sprint Cup Championship, choosing not to earn drivers points in the NASCAR Nationwide Series ( which he will drive a part-time schedule in the Kevin Harvick Inc. # 33 Chevy ).

Introduced in 2001 to the NASCAR circuit as the Tropicana 400, the race has seen five different winners in its first six years, with Kevin Harvick and Tony Stewart being the only repeat winners.

2010 NASCAR Rookie class from left to right Kevin Conway ( NASCAR ) | Kevin Conway, Ricky Stenhouse, Jr., Austin Dillon, Justin Lofton, Terry Cook, Colin Braun, and Brian Scott.