Kevin Harvick awards best burnout 2025

Kevin Harvick knows what makes a bully post-win burnout. With 60 NASCAR Cup Series wins nether his belt, he’s seen a batch of burnouts, but a fewer person peculiarly intrigued him this season.

One stood retired supra the rest, though. On Tuesday’s “Happy Hour” podcast, Harvick named Kyle Larson the champion burnout of 2025. The grant was fixed for his solemnisation aft winning the title astatine Phoenix Raceway.

“There were a batch of elements to this burnout,” Harvick said. “I mean, being the astonishment victor astatine the end, with his strategy, not being successful the combat each day, and past Cliff [Daniels] makes a large telephone astatine the extremity and Kyle Larson keeps the car up of Denny Hamlin and the remainder of the guys who were inactive warring for the championship. That burnout, getting retired of the car, the car against the fence, waving the flag, connected the gas, the squad against the partition and celebrating afterwards, was decidedly 1 of the champion moments for me.”

Race of champions

It’s hard to contradict burnout aft a title race, and that’s precisely what Larson was like. He proudly waved the emblem arsenic a two-time champion, thing that seemed improbable for overmuch of the contention successful Phoenix.

Larson didn’t pb a azygous lap. At 1 point, a level tyre blew and helium was a thigh behind. Still, helium and the No. 5 squad kept fighting, and astatine the commencement of overtime, Daniels got Larson up of Hamlin, who had dominated the contention up to that point.

Last week, Larson appeared connected “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.” He admitted helium got fortunate successful Phoenix, but helium surely won’t beryllium returning the trophy to NASCAR.

“Yeah, I got beauteous lucky. Our format is 1 race, 4 drivers,” Larson said. “We’re competing with different drivers, but you person to bushed the different three, and I couldn’t bash that until we got a precocious caution. Our squad took a risk, took 2 tires and… yeah, I had a level tyre with little than 100 laps to go, it was crazy… I thought it was over. I was trying to enactment motivated and confident, but ne'er successful a cardinal years did I deliberation it would really wage off.”