Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour presented by NASCAR on FOX
Jul 22, 2026 · 16 min · 12 segments
Joey Logano is back on Happy Hour after winning his 1st race of 2026! Logano led the most laps in his career (323) in a single race and snapped his 45-race winless streak. The win moved the 3x NASCAR…
Mamba SmithHostJust to have his NASCAR racing for you, right? Like one week you're down and next week you're up and you just got to ride up as long as you possibly can.
And it's nice to have a really, really fast Mustang this weekend that has had so much speed and we're able to execute a solid race on top of that.
So everything worked out just perfectly and got a bunch of points is what we needed and still need a bunch more.

You were talking about having a dominant car, and if you don't win, how that makes you feel.

I'm like, man, if you have a car that good and you don't get it done, how do you handle that? If you would have not got it done, how hard would you have been kicking yourself?
I've been on both ends of it before, and you're running that last long run, and you know you have control of the race, but Denny's right there, and you're just waiting for a caution to come out with 20 to go, and it splits the field up on whether you need to do two tires or four tires or stay out, which happened in the all-star race at Wilkesboro last year, and we lost the race because of it.
So you're just waiting for something like that to happen, and we're like, Gosh, it's going to split the strategy.
Denny Hamlin called your performance wildly impressive, which it certainly was.
Just to have his NASCAR racing for you, right? Like one week you're down and next week you're up and you just got to ride up as long as you possibly can.
And it's nice to have a really, really fast Mustang this weekend that has had so much speed and we're able to execute a solid race on top of that.
So everything worked out just perfectly and got a bunch of points is what we needed and still need a bunch more.

You were talking about having a dominant car, and if you don't win, how that makes you feel.

I'm like, man, if you have a car that good and you don't get it done, how do you handle that? If you would have not got it done, how hard would you have been kicking yourself?
I've been on both ends of it before, and you're running that last long run, and you know you have control of the race, but Denny's right there, and you're just waiting for a caution to come out with 20 to go, and it splits the field up on whether you need to do two tires or four tires or stay out, which happened in the all-star race at Wilkesboro last year, and we lost the race because of it.
So you're just waiting for something like that to happen, and we're like, Gosh, it's going to split the strategy.
Denny Hamlin called your performance wildly impressive, which it certainly was.
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