Kevin Harvick was surprised Alex Bowman and Hendrick Motorsports didn’t appeal their disqualification at the Charlotte Roval, which knocked the No. 48 team out of the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs.
Joey Logano was the benefactor, and now he’s headed to the Championship 4. Still, Harvick stated on the latest episode of Kevin Harvick’s Happy Hour that if Hendrick didn’t want to appeal the disqualification, they must’ve realized they were guilty, and there was no turning back.
“I was surprised, but it also told me that they were guilty,” Harvick stated . “I think, at that point, when you know that you don’t have a leg to stand on, you just have to go and kind of say, ‘We messed up,’ and I love the fact that Jeff Gordon said, ‘Hey, we cut it too close. We put ourselves out there, and that’s it,’ and that’s the end of the story. I think that, as you go through and you listen to everything that happened, it sounds like they rolled through right on the number, and you get a tolerance right after the race, and that number was lower than what NASCAR was giving the teams and gives the teams every week.