Kevin Harvick strongly calls for NASCAR drivers to stop talking, start retaliating

There’s been a lot of talking throughout the NASCAR Cup Series season in 2025, and not a lot of retaliating on the track. Kevin Harvick decided to call it out during the latest episode of Kevin Harvick’s Happy Hour.

Whether it’s Carson Hocevar versus, well — everyone, or drivers like Joey Logano being mad with Ross Chastain, the former Cup Series champion is tired of the posturing. There hasn’t been much action to back up some strong words from drivers throughout the field, and that’s something Harvick is hoping changes over the rest of the 2025 season.

“Yes I like that,” Harvick responded, regarding a caller clamoring for drivers to fight or retaliate on the track instead of posturing. “I don’t know about the fights, but if you’re going to call somebody out on the radio and you’re going to talk a bunch of s---, at least go do something, or immediately just hammer them.

“… Just all the s--- talking that happens on the radio, and then nothing happening on the racetrack. There’s just no better message that you can send than just wiping somebody out in retaliation. Then they know you’ll do it, right? When they know that you’ll do it, they’re not going to wipe you out. Because they don’t want to deal (with that).

“That’s one reason why, back when I drove, you just — every once in a while, you just had to wipe somebody out. You had to just send a message. You had a bunch of chaos — do you want to deal with the chaos, and do you want to get wiped out? Fine, let’s do it. But I don’t know that anybody is going to do that.”

Harvick certainly has a point. Most people aren’t wanting NASCAR to turn into the UFC, but there’s been a lot of smoke with no fire throughout the season thus far. Before Josh Berry shocking turned the aforementioned Hocevar at Sonoma this past weekend, he’s faced little to no repercussions for his aggressive driving.

It’s been a bit of a surprise, as one driver is usually disparaging another week after week after week on the radio. While it makes for good soundbites, they’re getting to feel more like empty promises than anything.

As the summer rages on and the playoffs get closer and closer, perhaps some anger will rise to the top and get the best of NASCAR’s top drivers. Kevin Harvick is hoping to see some fireworks. Time will tell if his dreams come to fruition.