"This one is 100% on him": Kevin Harvick blames Kyle Busch for late-race incident with Denny Hamlin in Brickyard 400

Kevin Harvick recently addressed yet another disappointing Kyle Busch performance in the 2024 NASCAR Cup Season. Towards the end of the Brickyard 400, the RCR driver found himself in a wreck as he collided with Denny Hamlin with a handful of laps remaining in the race.

Busch would eventually end up with a 25th-place finish in a season where he's been on the wrong side of luck one too many times.

However, his incident with Hamlin at Indy was one that Kevin Harvick found to be of Busch's own doing and not a matter of bad luck.

"I feel like Kyle is driving way over his head. His cars have been off the pace on certain weeks, but in this scenario, he's passing Denny Hamlin, he's in the top five, and just way overdrives the corner, driving into the side of Hamlin and wrecks himself," Harvick said on Happy Hour podcast. [23:25]

Harvick remarked that Busch has had "a ton of bad luck" this season, and that this is the most frustrated he has ever seen Rowdy. But the former SHR driver also claimed that Busch is now crashing a lot more than he used to as he circled back to the Brickyard incident where the #8 simply needed to finish, gain some points, and get the car home.

"He’s been in scenarios where it hasn’t been his fault, but this one is 100% on him, with a car that was running in the back for part of the day but wound up in the front, making a pass, inside the top 5, you’ve got to finish those," Harvick added.

Harvick claimed that Busch should've taken a deep breath and settled for the top 5 finish instead of hustling for a third or a fourth place. The recently retired NASCAR driver added that Kyle Busch needs to finish races to build momentum considering he's had five DNF finishes in the last eight races.

Kevin Harvick doesn't see Kyle Busch winning a race this year

Last week, Kevin Harvick made a less-than-ideal prediction for Kyle Busch. The 2x Cup champion, who is currently battling to book a place in the playoffs, is getting more and more in a position of having to win a race to make it to the post-season.

But this is exactly what Harvick doesn't see happening for Busch. He pointed to the way the season has gone for the #8 driver, mentioning that "nothing is going right for Kyle Busch." And at the same time, Harvick also remarked that Busch hasn't had the speed to make up for the bad luck and unfortunate incidents he has been a part of this season.

Harvick claimed that this is the difference between drivers like Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch. While the #11 team is also going through a rough phase, they have the speed, which helps with their confidence.

But in Busch's case, Kevin Harvick lamented the position the former Joe Gibbs Racing driver is in, predicting that he doesn't see a win for him anywhere in sight.