volume ten | issue three | september 2010 A word from Kevin... Hello, To say the summer has flown by is a huge understatement. It seems like only yesterday we were rolling into Daytona to start the 2010 season, and now we’re getting ready to start the Chase for the Championship. I’m happy to say that not only did we qualify for the Chase this year, but we clinched our spot four races early with a win in Michigan. I always look forward to the races that fall during the summer stretch because they tend to be some of the better ones for me and the 29 team, and this season has been no exception. We were able to win races at Daytona and Michigan and record seven top-five and eight top-10 finishes. Consistency, paired with fast race cars, has been the key to the 29 team’s success this year, and it has enabled me to lead the points for the longest consecutive span in my Cup career. I feel as ready and as confident as I ever have going into the Chase. We’ve shown we can contend for the championship; we just have to go out there and do it. Our game plan for the last 10 races is “business as usual” because that’s what got us here. I’m also pretty excited about our recent announcement that Budweiser will be my sponsor on the 29 starting in 2011. Budweiser is one of the most respected sponsors in our sport, with such a rich history, and I’m really proud that I get to add my name to the list of drivers who have represented them starting next year. The summer months have also been good to our Truck and Nationwide teams at KHI. Both the 33 and 2 trucks have gone to victory lane and the 33 Nationwide team has been really close. All we can ask for is a shot each and every weekend and I feel like we’ve got that with all of our teams. It says a lot about the men and women we have here. They all share the same never-give-up attitude, passion and determination for KHI that DeLana and I do, and that means a lot to me. I hope in the next newsletter there will be pictures of me hoisting the Sprint Cup championship trophy from Homestead. Trust me, nobody wants it more than I do. But, if that doesn’t happen, I’m still really proud of everything the 29 team has accomplished in 2010. It’s worlds apart from where we were last year and just as with my teams at KHI, all I can ask for is a shot, and that’s exactly what I’ve got. Foundation Corner... Kevin by the Kevin Harvick Foundation at Oak Hollow benefitting Victory Junction. “Victory Junction is a The Start of Something Good Golf Course in High Point, N.C. Joined by big part of what With the same fierce determination that he is NASCAR drivers Scott Speed, Ron Hornaday, Jr., we do and will be known for on the track, Kevin Harvick is working to Ricky Carmichael and Kyle Petty, Harvick and a big benefactor of help change the lives of children in need. In early friends enjoyed a beautiful day on the golf course. what we do with 2010, Kevin and DeLana Harvick happily launched Funds from the event went to support the Kevin the tournament,” the Kevin Harvick Foundation, whose mission is to Harvick Foundation in its mission to positively Harvick said. “It’s support programs that positively enrich the lives of enrich the lives of children in need through fun to come do children throughout the United States. From programs such as Victory Junction and Baptist things to help the building a camper cabin at Victory Junction, to Children’s Homes of North Carolina. community and playing beach volleyball with children from the obviously this Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Kevin and DeLana event’s very are helping to provide once-in-a-lifetime Kevin Harvick Foundation Pro-Am important to the opportunities that make a positive difference in the Kicks off Wyndham Championship Week community. We lives of deserving children. live in the “Make sure you stand behind me when I tee off,” community and said Kevin Harvick with a smile as he picked up his In April 2010, the Kevin Harvick Foundation made work in the driver for the first hole of the Kevin Harvick its way to Bakersfield, Calif. for two fun-filled community, so it’s Foundation Pro-Am on Monday, August 16, 2010. events, an evening “Hanging Out with Kevin and important to us The special event, presented by Technology Ron” and the Kevin Harvick Foundation Golf too.” Tournament, both presented by Advanced Concepts & Design, Inc., kicked off Distribution Company. It was good times, good Wyndham Championship week at food and good company at Buck Owen’s Crystal Sedgefield Country Club in Greensboro, Palace on April 6, 2010, as Kevin Harvick and Ron N.C. Harvick was joined by fellow Hornaday, Jr. kicked back, relaxed and enjoyed an NASCAR drivers Scott Speed, Denny evening with friends. The next morning, they Hamlin and Hermie Sadler, along with UNC made their way to The Links at RiverLakes Ranch Chapel Hill men’s basketball coach Roy for the Kevin Harvick Foundation Golf Tournament, Williams, Jason Gore of the PGA Tour and where 31 teams joined them in a four man a special appearance by Boston Celtics captain’s choice charity tournament. coach, Doc Rivers. The drivers and other celebrities teamed up with a PGA TOUR On May 26, 2010, Kevin Harvick hosted the John golfer and three amateurs. The 18-hole Paul Linville Memorial Golf Tournament presented event was all for a good cause, with funds Around The Shop: Behind the Scenes at KHI KHI Visits Victory Junction First Annual KHI Softball Tournament Puts Bragging It was Wild Safari Week at Victory Junction and the crew from KHI was Rights on the Line ready to get wild! The excitement in the air was tangible as they made After the KHI Truck and Nationwide Series their way to the front of the Fuel Stop teams returned from Gateway (Ill.) dining hall, helping kick off the International Raceway, KHI decided to do a NASCARnival Night celebration. Over little team building, in the form of the 60 children with spina bifida showed inaugural KHI softball tournament. KHI off their stuff as they taught their employees headed to the home of the favorite dance moves to some of Winston Salem Dash, to play a full-on game NASCAR’s best during the after of softball. Employees were broken up into dinner dance party on June 29, 2010. After kicking up their heels, the five teams, mixed with pit crew children made their way outside to Victory Circle for a once in a lifetime members, office staff and shop employees. The championship round came experience. It was time for the pit crew to teach the kids a thing or two. down to the blue team, primarily made up of the No. 33 Truck Series team, and KHI front tire changer Kenyatta Houston and front tire carrier Alex the orange team, made Yonchuk stepped up their game by throwing in an extra cartwheel and up primarily of the No. toe touch as the crew 33 Nationwide Series performed real time pit team. The pitchers, stops for the kid’s crew chief Ernie Cope enjoyment. Then, as if it for the orange team and couldn’t get any better, driver Ron Hornaday for the crew grew the blue team, went exponentially as they head to head. The welcomed the children orange team prevailed, to join them in the fun. taking home the This amazing group of hardware. The next day, children took the chance sore muscles and to learn from the best as scraped knees abounded at the KHI shop, but everyone they speedily changed a tire, many for the first time. The evening was had a great time and is already planning their strategies filled with pit stops, great music, carnival games, air brushed tattoos for the next tournament. and hot air balloon rides. Memories were made that will never be forgotten. Road Warriors Biscuits and Football Known for his tenacity on the track, Prior to the Nashville 200, Ron Hornaday, Austin Dillon and Ricky Carmichael met at Ron Hornaday, along with wife Lindy, the Loveless Cafe, a famous eatery in the Nashville, Tennessee area, to join the became “Road Warriors” during the Loveless Cafe staff in month of July. The pair set out on a the kitchen to make road trip, driving their motor coach some of the cafe’s from Mooresville, North Carolina to famous biscuits. The O’Reilly Raceway Park (ORP) in threesome learned how Indianapolis, Indiana. Ron and Lindy, to knead dough, flour along with their dog Lucy, saw the rolling pin and bridges, ran a contest with fans and carefully stamp out ate at unique establishments along the perfectly round biscuits. way. Following a full weekend of After making a mess of racing at the 0.686-mile short flour and dough, the track at ORP where Hornaday threesome’s biscuits recorded his first Truck Series came out of the oven to win of the 2010 season and be smothered in butter. made his second Nationwide They sampled their work and determined that the Series appearance in the No. professional biscuit bakers’ jobs were not in 33 Chevrolet, the couple jeopardy.