Kevin Harvick: Trackhouse Racing facing crossroad season

Kevin Harvick believes Trackhouse Racing is entering a pivotal campaign as the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season is about to get underway.

With Shane van Gisbergen joining the fold full-time for the team, along with Ross Chastain and Daniel Suarez, it’s easy to see why there’s immense hype for Trackhouse’s crusade. Harvick believes they’re firing on all cylinders off-track, but it’s time for the results to match the razzmatazz.

“The performance has to match the marketing,” Harvick said, regarding whether Trackhouse is facing a crossroad season in 2025, via Kevin Harvick’s Happy Hour. “They’ve blown it out of the water with bringing Red Bull back, bringing SVG in, Project 91. You know, you’ve got great sponsors and great things to go around with it. You’ve got an A-driver with Ross Chastain. I think SVG is going to win a race on the road courses, most likely. [Daniel] Suarez obviously won last year. I think the performance of that team was up and down, had some bright spots in it.

“I think that the pressure is definitely on, from the competition side, to go out there and make some things happen, especially with Ross and his scenario on the racetrack. I believe he has the work ethic and ability to be a multiple season, multiple race winner every year, if everything underneath him is good.”

As Harvick alluded to, Trackhouse landed one of the more important sponsorship deals in recent NASCAR memory, as Red Bull is re-entering NASCAR. The energy drink brand left the sport in 2011, and they’re going to be on the No. 88 car of SVG for five races this season.

Additionally, they’re going to sponsor Connor Zilisch in his Cup Series debut at COTA, who’s considered the future of Trackhouse as a whole. Zilisch will pilot the No. 87 for the team, when the time comes in Austin.

All told, Trackhouse has elevated to a beguiling part of the Cup Series, especially after the aforementioned Chastain almost captured a title in 2022. However, NASCAR and motorsports as a whole is a results-based business, and the wins haven’t exactly been there for their full-time rides over the past two seasons. That’ll have to change in 2025.

In any case, it’s more than impressive what Justin Marks and company has built at Trackhouse over the past few seasons, and Kevin Harvick wants to see them reach their full potential. 2025 could be the year for the entrancing team. We’ll see if they can get the job done, beginning with The Clash on Sunday evening.