Kevin Harvick predicts winner of Coca-Cola 600

Kevin Harvick won’t be in the booth for the Coca-Cola 600, as FOX will give way to Prime Video this weekend as the coverage of the NASCAR Cup Series will change hands. Still, a couple of drivers have his attention heading into this Sunday’s race in Charlotte. 

Memorial Day Weekend means one of NASCAR’s premier events will take center stage, and Harvick has been victorious twice when it comes to the Coca-Cola 600, winning in 2011 and 2013. Who will join the 49-year old as a victor? He made his prediction on the latest episode of Kevin Harvick’s Happy Hour.

Evidently, Harvick believes another big time win is on the horizon for William Byron: “600 miles. That’s a long ways. I’m going to go with William Byron,” the FOX Sport analyst stated.

Byron has two Daytona 500 wins to his name, but the Coca-Cola 600 has eluded him. He finished P2 in 2023 and P3 in 2024. A win seems to be a matter of when, not if. Harvick thinks it’ll come this weekend.

“I almost picked him,” Harvick’s co-host Kaitlyn Vincie retorted. “I’m going with [Joey] Logano. He strikes me as a driver that could — him and that team, they have what it takes, I think, to win that race. He’s already mad after what happened last week [at the All-Star Race].”

All told, Logano isn’t a bad fallback option for Vincie. He’s won the All-Star Race at Charlotte, but his best finish in the Coca-Cola 600 is being the runner-up. Can he use his frustration and notch win No. 1 in the event in 2025? It’s not out of the realm of possibility.

Finally, Mamba Smith is also a believer in Team Penske: “This is typically the point where Team Penske really starts firing off on all cylinders. It usually starts [during the] 600 weekend,” he prefaced. “So, it’s time. YRB [Ryan Blaney]. Run it. They’re confident here. They love this place. I think it’s their’s to get. It’s either them or a Hendrick team.”

As Smith alluded to, Blaney actually won the Coca-Cola 600 in 2023, when it was run on a Monday instead of Sunday due to rain. There’s a precedent, but the Penske wheelman will have to rise above and notch his first checkered flag of 2025 if he’s to end his skid.

Alas, the Kevin Harvick’s Happy Hour crew has locked in their predictions, but it’ll all come to a head on Sunday evening. The Coca-Cola 600 is a historic race for the NASCAR Cup Series, and 2025’s iteration is certainly as anticipated as any in recent memory. The green flag will wave at approximately 6:00 p.m. in Charlotte.