Kevin Harvick

Kevin Michael Harvick was born December 8, 1975 in Bakersfield, CA. Harvick began kart racing at an early age, after his parents bought him a go-kart as a kindergarten graduation gift in 1980. Over the next decade Harvick achieved considerable success on the go-cart racing circuit, earning seven national championships and two Grand National championships. In 1992, he started racing late models part-time in the NASCAR Featherlite Southwest Series and he competed there while still in high school.

Harvick made his Camping World Truck Series (was Craftsman Truck Series) debut in 1995. Harvick moved up to the NASCAR Grand National Division, AutoZone West Series in 1997, and in 1998 Harvick won five races on his way to the Winston West Series championship. On October 23, 1999, Harvick made his first NASCAR Busch Series start in the Kmart 200 at the Rockingham Speedway in the #2 Invica-sponsored Chevrolet.

Harvick currently drive the No. 4 Budweiser/Jimmy John's/Outback Steakhouse/Ditech Mortgage Corporation Chevrolet SS for Stewart-Haas Racing in the Sprint Cup Series. He is the reigning NASCAR Sprint Cup champion after winning the title in 2014.