Kevin Harvick fires back at European media over Kyle Larson comments on Max Verstappen

Kyle Larson was recently targeted by the European media for his comments about Max Verstappen, and Kevin Harvick fired back at them. On Kevin Harvick’s Happy Hour, Harvick revaled that people in Europe are not very knowledgeable about NASCAR.

“The thing I can tell you is everyone over there is not very well educated on NASCAR and what NASCAR actually is,” Harvick said. “I actually had to explain to the guys on the go-kart teams what NASCAR was. Their view of it is it’s a car you go buy at the dealership, and you out and you tune it up and fix it up and you race it at the track. They had no idea that we had shops and the technology and everything that comes with that. They’re poorly educated on what NASCAR is.

Harvick added: “The thing I can tell you that if Kyle Larson went to drive Max Verstappen’s car, it wouldn’t be one or two days and he would be damn close to being as fast as Max Verstappen. There is no way Max Verstappen comes up over here and does that in a stock car.”

Harvick went on to say that Verstappen is “extremely talented and very very good at what he does for his discipline. But when it comes to Larson, Harvick stated he “can go out and drive anything. He’s very good at his discipline, but he’s got multiple disciplines. We saw what he did in an IndyCar. I truly believe Max would do okay, but he’s not going to do anywhere close to what Kyle Larson does.

Kevin Harvick says European media doesn’t ‘know what they’re talking about’

“…I truly believe some of the arrogance that comes from the international crowd on the media side to just say ‘Meh, you can’t do that, Kyle Larson, that’s not a fair comparison,’ they just don’t even know what they’re talking about.”

Last week, Larson was asked by FloRacing if needs to beat Verstappen to be called the world’s best driver. “Not really. I know in my mind I am better than him as an all-around driver,” Larson said. “There’s no way [Verstappen] can get into a Sprint Car and win the Knoxville Nationals. No way he can go win the Chili Bowl. There’s no way he can go win a Cup race at Bristol. Probably no way I can go win a Formula 1 race at Monaco, but I think I’d have a better shot at him [doing what he does than him doing what I do] just because of the car element.”

The post Kevin Harvick fires back at European media over Kyle Larson comments on Max Verstappen appeared first on On3.