Can Kevin Harvick make up enough ground to challenge?
The driver who may gain the most ground is Kevin Harvick, currently in 9th position. A major hurdle he must overcome is that he didn’t start his season until week two. One might think that running every race in Busch and Winston Cup would wear him down, but it appears to do just the opposite. Last week he beat the field at Kentucky and would have had a top ten finish at Pocono if he hadn’t run out of gas on the last lap. He already has one trip to the Winston Cup victory lane and six top tens in his rookie year. With his talent and a top-notch team, he certainly has what it takes to break into the top five this year. Out of the current top five drivers, my money is on Jeff Gordon to bring home his fourth championship in 2001. Beginning with the last ten races of 2000, Gordon has been gathering up a head of steam that may be unstoppable. There is collective egg on the faces of those who thought Jeff’s career was over when Ray Evernham left the DuPont team in 1999, but you also have to g
