From Kevin Harvicks Friday media availability: HOW EXCITED ARE YOU THAT BUDWEISER IS GOING TO FOLLOW YOU TO STEWART-HAAS RACING? ‘Obviously, its nice to officially all the speculation about numbers and teams and as far as the sponsorship, obviously weve had three years with Budweiser and looking forward to moving forward with them as a sponsor. Its been an interesting process just from the fact that we really havent been involved in much of anything on the sponsorship side of it just for the fact that when we did the deal with SHR we were knowing that we were having to move forward for a year here and we wanted to make sure that we did a good job with RCR so its nice to be in a position to not have to go out and be a part of that whole process and be able to focus on racing a car and getting the performance and doing the things that we need to do at RCR. Its worked out well and those guys at SHR took full responsibility to have the car funded and that made my life a lot easier.” WHY WAS THE MOVE MADE WITH BUDWEISER? ‘I signed a deal with Stewart Haas Racing and everybody was pretty sensitive to the fact that we still had another year. For those guys to take the responsibility and say, if we dont have the sponsorship then the car will be on the race track and will be funded. Theres something to be said about having that guarantee of money behind the car and being able to be on the race track and for me kind of with the transition and wanting to do a good job this year and they were very sensitive to me wanting to be competitive on the race track. WERE YOU CONFIDENT THAT BUDWEISER WOULD GO WITH YOU? ‘Basically what happened was we decided that was what we wanted to do from a team standpoint. We went to the team at SHR, we worked out my contract and they basically guaranteed what the car would have on it on the race track and they basically took full responsibility to figure out what direction they wanted to go from a sponsorship standpoint and how to make it go around. It didnt have one dollar of sponsorship when I signed the contract.” ARE YOUR OTHER SPONSORS COMING OVER? RHEEM, JIMMY JOHNS? ‘Look I have no idea. That was the intriguing part about the SHR (Stewart-Haas Racing) piece of it was the car is going to be on the track and they said you go do your job and finish your year and race the cars as hard as you can and do a good job for Richard (Childress) and we will worry about the rest of it. DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA CREW CHIEF WISE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT? WILL YOU HAVE INPUT INTO THAT? ‘Im sure we will sit down and talk about crew chiefs and things because obviously those will have to happen before we get to December. We will talk about a direction and that will be probably the extent of the conversation moving forward. Everybody is sensitive to wanting to make sure that we do a good job this year at RCR and they do a good job in their current situation.(Chevy PR)
