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Harvick seems to be able to adapt his driving to the car and Rodney Childers seems to be able to make adjustments. Harvick always seems to be the best of the Stewart-Haas teams. All of those teams seem to be much better this season but the others seem to lose it at the end of races.
Kyle Larson seems to be the only competitive Chevy.
Seems like Gibbs took the good crew members from Truex's team. Toyota might not be giving Truex the best engines.
Watching interviews with the younger drivers, many of them say they aren't car guys. They don't work on cars, even their own cars. It's gotten to be more and more that way. It used to be that drivers grew up working on their own cars. Now, many have never turned a wrench.
Yeah it's been really cool to see Bowyer and Almirola up there this year but it's like Harvick is a tier ahead. He's battling for wins while the rest of the guys are 5th-10th most weeks. He and his crew chief have had this thing figured out for a few years now.
Chevy seems to be in trouble but I could definitely use a break from Jimmie Johnson winning another championship so I'm ok with it.
The days of guys having to earn it to get to this point are over. Basically some kid's parents have money and put him in a car and if he's good he gets noticed and gets picked up by a Gibbs developmental team and basically has a free ride from there. It's another reason in the long list of reasons why fans are leaving the sport. Can't identify with these kids and there's nothing interesting about their back stories. They weren't sacrificing everything to build the car and get it on the short track by Saturday night to try and make it the way the guys in the past did.