Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour presented by NASCAR on FOX
Sep 1, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min · 16 segments
What a regular-season finale at Daytona! Kevin Harvick, Kaitlyn Vincie, and Mamba Smith break down a chaotic, high-stakes night at the World Center of Racing. Ryan Preece survived early damage to…
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It was very exciting in Daytona as we knew that it would be Ryan priest and company personified the mantra of do not give up.
It was unbelievable and really talked about doing it all week leading into the race, knowing what they need to do.
But in typical Ryan Priest fashion, he's always performed in these weird clutch moments, clutch back against the wall moments.
And once again, here we are with Ryan Priest winning to make his way into the chase and get his first win at Daytona.
that has been so difficult for him when, when it comes to wrecking race cars in such a spectacular way, but to be able to spin that around, get past all those moments of, of, uh, disaster and be able to stand on top of that car and in victory lane is, just such an accomplished, really just from a mental standpoint, to be able to get over these types of wrecks and be able to go back to that racetrack and race at such a high level, which he's done every time that he's gone back and raced.
And to be able to get back into victory lane and make their way into the chase is pretty unbelievable.
Ryan priest and his team is the camaraderie, just the trust and belief that he and his crew chief have in each other.
And you can see it in the celebration afterwards with the pit crew guys, the crew members, just how much, how together they are in, in this battle, uh, to, to be able to, to try to accomplish what they did and try to succeed and get to victory lane, which they did for the second time, really this year, he won the clash.
So look, it's, it's, um, It's not easy to do, and his journey to get to this point has been kind of like a storybook.
It's really been something that you could write a script, a movie on as far as the chances that he's taken on himself, the moments that he's had to make decisions.
It was really interesting because I interviewed him for our Speed broadcast, and hearing him talk about His toughest decision is not anything that any of us would think about.
He talks about the moment of having the opportunity to go back home and race modifieds in, in 2016, and to be able to go and, and race for somebody else and make for, make all his own decisions and race to win, which is how he's wired.
It was very exciting in Daytona as we knew that it would be Ryan priest and company personified the mantra of do not give up.
It was unbelievable and really talked about doing it all week leading into the race, knowing what they need to do.
But in typical Ryan Priest fashion, he's always performed in these weird clutch moments, clutch back against the wall moments.
And once again, here we are with Ryan Priest winning to make his way into the chase and get his first win at Daytona.
that has been so difficult for him when, when it comes to wrecking race cars in such a spectacular way, but to be able to spin that around, get past all those moments of, of, uh, disaster and be able to stand on top of that car and in victory lane is, just such an accomplished, really just from a mental standpoint, to be able to get over these types of wrecks and be able to go back to that racetrack and race at such a high level, which he's done every time that he's gone back and raced.
And to be able to get back into victory lane and make their way into the chase is pretty unbelievable.
Ryan priest and his team is the camaraderie, just the trust and belief that he and his crew chief have in each other.
And you can see it in the celebration afterwards with the pit crew guys, the crew members, just how much, how together they are in, in this battle, uh, to, to be able to, to try to accomplish what they did and try to succeed and get to victory lane, which they did for the second time, really this year, he won the clash.
So look, it's, it's, um, It's not easy to do, and his journey to get to this point has been kind of like a storybook.
It's really been something that you could write a script, a movie on as far as the chances that he's taken on himself, the moments that he's had to make decisions.
It was really interesting because I interviewed him for our Speed broadcast, and hearing him talk about His toughest decision is not anything that any of us would think about.
He talks about the moment of having the opportunity to go back home and race modifieds in, in 2016, and to be able to go and, and race for somebody else and make for, make all his own decisions and race to win, which is how he's wired.
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