Is there any extra motivation for Kevin Harvick this week?
Definitely. Although Harvick’s chances of catching points leader Matt Kenseth are slight at this point, he still wasn’t happy to see T-shirts celebrating Kenseth’s not-yet-clinched 2003 Winston Cup championship available for fans to pre-order on a racing Web site (diecastpickandclick.com ) “It’s a lot of confidence for an organization that has screwed up championships in the past,” Harvick says. “You’d think Jack Roush would know better than to count his chickens before they hatch. But, it might all work out for him in the end. I know I sure wouldn’t be selling championship merchandise if I were him. There’s no way I’d jinx myself like that. I guess to Jack’s organization, the money is the most important thing at this point.” While seeing Kenseth championship T-shirts for sale might be galling to Harvick (and unnerving to superstitious Kenseth fans), their appearance on the Internet apparently happened because of miscommunication between Roush Racing and an outside retailer — not a dem
