Kevin Harvick Runs His Final Cup Race This Weekend

Charlotte Motor Speedway will honor Kevin Harvick as he runs his final Cup race this weekend.

The track will pay tribute to the 47-year-old Harvick ahead of the Bank of America ROVAL 400 with a series of events and displays.  Harvick will lead a ceremonial pace lap around the 17-turn, 2.28-mile course while a video tribute plays on the Speedway's giant screen.

Four of Harvick's history-making rides will be on display, including cars from his IROC, truck series and ownership days.  Fans can also take part in a Q&A with Harvick at 11:45 a.m. Sunday.

Charlotte Motor Speedway's pre-race activities will also honor Harvick, as his "4Ever aChampion" flag will parachute into the infield.  There are also plans for a mural commemorating Kevin Harvick at the track's media center.

In addition to winning the Cup title in 2014, Harvick has tallied 60 wins in his NASCAR Cup Series career.  He is a three-time winner of the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.  Harvick most recently made news with a second-place finish at Talladega, but had to give up the strong finish after his car failed a post-race inspection. 

Crashing ruins the promise of a race day for NASCAR betting fans as well as drivers. It is possible for multiple cars to slide sideways at some tracks, sending the unluckiest among them taking heavy damage and ending their events early. Bookies.com crunched the data and found out which NASCAR drivers wreck the most and which wreck the least.

See the rest of the current NASCAR Cup Series drivers ranked by the percentage of races they have finished in their careers here.

You may be surprised by some of these numbers. First, it's obvious that the Dillon boys are grandchildren of a race team owner because they know how to take care of equipment. Harvick, for example, has averaged fewer than two DNFs per season over a period of two decades. Good drivers don't just compete but also avoid other drivers' messes, and the prospect of a crash shouldn't deter any bettor from backing them.

McDowell is on the other end of this list. Firstly, he won the 2021 Daytona 500, so we know he can race at a high level in extremely tight traffic. The reason why McDowell's crash rates are so high is that he raced for lower-end teams during the "start-and-park" era following the 2008 financial crash-when sponsors dried up, NASCAR race fields got sparse, and shoestring teams were able to collect a few grand by taking the checkered flag, coasting at the back for a few laps, and then reporting a breakdown.