By Caleb Whisler, Staff Writer
The 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup series season has been a game between youth and experience.
This weekend, Texas Motor Speedway has a banner with Chase Elliott, Ryan Blaney, William Byron, and others as the “New Kids on the Track”. Next to the banner is a smaller banner with a tweet from Kevin Harvick about the average age of winners in 2018 being 38.5.
Texas has this banner … and then a small banner of the Harvick tweet on its broadcast center … pic.twitter.com/M287jXVWbE
— Bob Pockrass (@bobpockrass) April 6, 2018
Harvick believes that the promotion created by Texas for this weekend it cool and a way to just have fun.
“It is a cool promotion. I like the promotion. If you like good marketing it is good. If you like winners you go for the old guys,” Harvick said on Friday.
“I love every one of those kids on that poster and I think they are all great for our sport. I am not taking personal digs on them, I am trying to have fun with it and I told them that they should have fun with it too. That is really what it is about.”
The veteran driver knows that the changing of the guard is good for the sport and enjoys the conversations that have created by the banter in recent weeks.
“The dad and kid sitting in the grandstands from two different generations and mom and daughter sitting in the grandstands from two different generations. They root for the old guys and you root for the young guys. That is great for our sport, it really is,” Harvick continued.
“It makes it fun to be able to have that banter back and forth. Most of those guys probably don’t even know who New Kids on the Block are. I would venture to say that.”