{"id":23231,"date":"2020-02-08T15:59:47","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T20:59:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/?p=23231"},"modified":"2020-02-08T15:59:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T20:59:51","slug":"kevin-harvick-signs-two-year-extension-with-shr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2020\/02\/08\/kevin-harvick-signs-two-year-extension-with-shr\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Harvick signs two year extension with SHR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/02\/img_0462.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23229\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/02\/img_0462.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/02\/img_0462-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/02\/img_0462-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/02\/img_0462-594x334.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/02\/img_0462-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/02\/img_0462-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/02\/img_0462-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/files\/2020\/02\/img_0462-747x420.jpg 747w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kevin Harvick confirmed to media members that he had signed an extension with Stewart Haas Racing.<\/p>\n<p>The deal for Harvick adds two years to his contract that was slated to end after the 2021 season.<\/p>\n<p>Harvick, 44, is the 2014 Cup Series champion and a 49 time winner at thr top series in NASCAR.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m intrigued by that and for me, that\u2019ll keep me in the car a few more years as we go through 2023 and see where we\u2019re at,\u201d Harvick said. \u201cReally, that timing works well for me from a media standpoint, just because of the fact that you have a TV contract that\u2019s coming up, you\u2019ll know who the players are and I think at that particular point, you\u2019ll have a fair amount of experience in the new car. You\u2019ll hopefully have been through the engine change, the vehicle change. So there were a number of things that go along with that. I really like racing with the group of guys in the organization where I\u2019m at and I worked my whole career and feel like I got here with a group of guys and people that I want to have had success with. For me, going through a few more years in the car just made sense.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Harvick confirmed to media members that he had signed an extension with Stewart Haas Racing. The deal for Harvick adds two years to his contract that was slated to end after the 2021 season. Harvick, 44, is the 2014 Cup Series champion and a 49 time winner at thr top series in NASCAR. \u201cI\u2019m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,786,788],"tags":[789,365,708,599],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cup-series","8":"category-nascar-topstory","9":"category-news","10":"tag-front","11":"tag-kevin-harvick","12":"tag-nascar","13":"tag-stewart-haas-racing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23231"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=23231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}