Hey everybody, it’s Kevin Harvick, 2014 NASCAR Cup Series Champion. Xfinity and I wanted to celebrate the kick-off of the 2021 season by having some fun with the r/NASCAR community.
So go ahead and ask me anything! Here’s your opportunity to submit your Daytona 500 questions, if I think a hotdog is a sandwich or anything else you have on your mind. I will try to answer all of them as fast as Xfinity xFi!
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3PM Edit: Thanks for all the awesome questions, Kevin had a great time answering them all! We're looking forward to seeing him "go as fast as Xfinity internet" in Daytona 500 qualifying tonight on FS1 with the Xfinity Stream app.
Hey everybody, it's Chase Elliott, driver of the No. 9 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports and your 2020 NASCAR Cup Series Champion. My friends at Xfinity wanted to help celebrate my 2020 championship with you. It’s been a unique and amazing season and I’m going to try to answer your questions as fast as Xfinity Internet.
While you're here, follow along on social media too, so you're connected!
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That's all the time we have with Chase, thanks to all the awesome NASCAR fans for joining and asking great questions!
We had so much fun with the Clint Bowyer and Xfinity Series Playoffs AMA, talked the bosses into an AMA with the NASCAR Cup Series Champion for our time with him on Tuesday from u/Xfinity!
The thread will be posted an hour before to take questions on Tuesday and we'll try and get to as many as possible starting at 12:45pm. Don't hold us to that time EXACTLY, who knows if he'll get chatty talking to Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest, BUT we promise he'll be here! Let's have some fun!
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I was trying to explain to a friend how while it is the biggest race of the year, it's also technically the least significant because whatever happens, you still have 30 plus more races to decide the outcome. So I'm wondering how significant the Daytona 500 results really is on the final Series championship.
Your contenders:
#1 - Kurt Busch Why he'll do it: Busch is coming off a freshman season with Chip Ganassi Racing in which he scored a win, and at times looked like a contender for more. He's also won a championship (in an odd numbered car) before, so if you like experience over youth, Kurt’s your guy.
Why he won't do it: He has 6 top-5 finishes each of the last three seasons, and it's really hard to win a championship with only 6 top-5 finishes. He also hasn't finished better than 7th in points in the past 10 years and oh yeah, he's 41 years old.
Chance of winning championship: 4.1/10
#3 - Austin Dillon Why he'll do it: RCR doesn't just need to take a step forward, they need to be launched with a trebuchet forward. Now, to Austin's credit, he's made the playoffs three out of the past four years. If RCR gets that trebuchet, it could be dab season in Phoenix.
Why he won't do it: RCR is probably not going to go from midpack garbage to championship contender in a year. There's also the fact that Austin Dillon has never led more than 70 laps in a season.
Chance of winning championship: 3/10
#9 - Chase Elliott Why he'll do it: It all seems to be clicking for Elliott. He was good his first two years, great in 2018, and had a down year in 2019 that still resulted in three wins and a 10th place points finish. He's dangerous.
Why he won't do it: Hendrick Motorsports stinks right now. Seriously that's the only knock I have on Elliott. He's pretty damn good.
Chance of winning championship: 9/10
#11 - Denny Hamlin Why he'll do it: Denny Hamlin is a really cool dude. He wears a Jordan fire suit, he has a racecar in his living room, he tore his ACL and raced with it. But most of all, he wins. He won six times in 2019, and has won at least won race in each full season he's run other than 2018, an obvious fluke that should be ignored to fit my narrative.
Why he won't do it: The racing gods hate him. They'd have struck him with lightning on the last lap of this year's Daytona 500 if they could. Whether it's running out of fuel or his team deciding to clear out their remaining stock of tape, Hamlin is the most unlucky driver we've seen since Mark Martin.
Chance of winning championship: 0/10
#13 - Ty Dillon Why he'll do it: Germain Racing won a pair of Truck Series championships in 2006 and 2010. Yep, that's something that happened. I looked it up. Todd Bodine did that, now he's a pretty good analyst, but he was an even better driver in
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Since 2016, where Jeff Gordon (4) and Tony Stewart (3) hung up their helmets in the series.
I am Brad Keselowski, driver of the Miller Lite Blue Deuce Ford in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. Last year, I won the whole darn thing. Ask me anything.
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I am returning to my home state of Michigan this Sunday for the Quicken Loans 400 (1pm ET on TNT). You should probably watch.
NOTE: Brad will begin taking questions at approximately 11:45am ET.
EDIT: We'll likely be starting a touch late due to a little NYC traffic. Stay tuned.
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FINAL EDIT: From Brad: Thanks for following today and for all the great questions. We appreciate the support of this community and would love to see it continue to grow.
