You can always count on Kevin Harvick to offer up a fresh perspective on issues in NASCAR.
On Friday at Auto Club Speedway, Harvick was asked about the NASCAR appeals process in light of this week's decision by NASCAR's chief appellate officer to rescind the points penalties and crew suspensions issued to Hendrick Motorsports' No. 48 team.
"It’s a platform for everybody to state your case, and sometimes you win and
sometimes you lose just like in the court of law. It’s really no different than
that. It’s no different than watching a case like OJ (Simpson), and watching OJ
go free. Watching that case, there’s no way you thought that was going to
happen. Then you see the verdict, and then it happens. It’s very similar to
that," Harvick said.
"Sometimes you think something is cut and dry, and you think this is going
to be the verdict, and the next thing you know it’s not. You move on and you go
to the next one. But there is a platform for the teams to present their cases to
a board, and obviously to the last step they took this time to present it again.
I’ve been involved in it before from the team ownership side, and you prepare no
different than you would going to a court case. It’s literally the exact same
process.”
