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Kevin Harvick, the 2014 NASCAR Cup champion and winner of a series-high four races this year, has a nomination to succeed retired Dale Earnhardt Jr. as the sport’s Most Popular Driver. Earnhardt Jr., son of seven-time Cup champion Dale Earnhardt, was a 15-time winner of the Most Popular Driver award. Elliott’s father, 1988 champion Bill Elliott, was voted Most Popular Driver a record 16 times. “He’s done a great job of carrying himself and being competitive and doing all the things that he does,” Harvick said of Chase Elliott, who is still looking for his first Cup win, “but he is the NASCAR tie to the beginning of the sport … he has that family name and that history and the heritage of the hardcore NASCAR fan who are going to be the people who vote that.
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