GM RACING NOTES & QUOTES--KEVIN HARVICK PRESS CONFERENCE

GM RACING WINSTON CUP NOTES & QUOTES; PRE-RACE PRESS CONFERENCE; SYLVANIA
300; NEW HAMPSHIRE INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY; SEPT. 12, 2003

Loudon, N.H., Sept. 12, 2003 - Kevin Harvick, driver of the No. 29 GM
Goodwrench Chevrolet Monte Carlo, visited the Jack Ratte Memorial Media
Center here at New Hampshire International Speedway on Friday morning to
discuss recent events, including the fine handed down by NASCAR following
his altercation with Ricky Rudd at Richmond. Following are remarks from that
press conference.

KEVIN HARVICK, NO. 29 GM GOODWRENCH CHEVROLET MONTE CARLO:

WHAT DO YOU OBJECT TO ABOUT THE PENALTY YOU RECEIVED? "There's two words
that I regret about the whole situation. Other than that, I still feel it
was a pretty cheap shot. I think it was about as intentional as you can get
when you wreck going down the straightaway and don't even make it to the
corner. I still feel pretty strongly about it and I'm not going to back off
that part of it. But I do regret the two words that I said. I think a couple
of the guys probably regret jumping up and down on the car. I have strong
feelings about the way it all went down, and I think for the most part I was
pretty hot."

DO YOU THINK YOUR GUYS WERE COMING TO GET YOU SO THAT YOU WOULDN'T DO
SOMETHING THAT WOULD GET YOU SUSPENDED? "That's what they were doing. Myself
and Kirk were sitting on the door just talking to each other and obviously,
things escalated a little bit more than they should have. For the most part,
we stuck together as a race team and a bunch of people and that's very
important from a team standpoint. We got in trouble for some of the things
that we did and should have done a little differently. You can't look back
and can't go back on anything you did. I'm sure everyone standing in this
room has done something that they didn't think was right when you look back
on the situation. I probably should have done that a little bit different,
but you can't go back and you can't do things over. People don't realize
that we are human and we will make mistakes and probably look at things in
the wrong perspective. Everyone at some point in their lives has made a
mistake."

WHAT WAS THE INTENTION WHEN YOU CAME UP ON HIM ON PIT ROAD? "I really just
wanted to have a conversation with him, but it didn't work out like that."

WHAT DOES THIS DO FOR THE RUN YOU'VE BEEN MAKING? "We just have to put it
behind us and go on and keep doing everything we've been doing. We can't
control Matt's fate and
the circumstances around it, so we have to keep racing the car as we have
been and try to make as few mistakes as possible. It's a long shot, but who
knows?"

HAS THE TEAM GOTTEN STRONGER THROUGH THIS? "Definitely. I haven't been to
the shop this week. I've been gone all week, doing the things that I have to
do. We're a tight-knit bunch of guys anyway, and the whole company is really
like that. For the most part, we're close and we're friends. It was already
a close bunch of guys and now they all know how much each other cares and
how they will stick up for each other, and that means a lot."

CAN YOU COMMENT ON THE SPEEDWAY'S USE OF THE SAFER BARRIERS THIS WEEK? "I
got to test them out last week [at Richmond], so they did pretty good. I don
't think we had any injuries at Richmond, and we had the type of accidents
that make us all pretty vulnerable. The wall did a great job, didn't
interfere with anything as far as the racing groove is concerned. The walls
didn't tear apart, the foam didn't come out and none of the barriers grabbed
the cars, so I think NASCAR has done a great job making sure that they put
the walls in at the right angles and really concentrated on making sure they
were right."

SOME OF THE POST-RACE ROUGH STUFF THAT'S BEEN GOING ON, DO YOU THINK IT ADDS
SPICE TO THE MIX OF NASCAR RACING? "It's the reason people watch racing
instead of golf. It's an exciting sport, there's a lot of emotion involved,
and for the most part, it's something that means a lot to myself, all the
race teams and all the people involved. People have emotions, and they have
the same emotions over seeing a car accident on the road. If somebody knocks
you down walking through the mall, you probably apologize and you could go
into a tirade or something because you got pushed the wrong way. Just
magnify that times 100 and you can imagine the emotion that come out of the
race car. You're never going to get rid of all the emotions. The part I
regret the most is the language."

IN TALKING WITH TODD BERRIER THE OTHER DAY, HE SAID YOU WERE EVEN MORE
FOCUSED THAN BEFORE. DO YOU AGREE WITH THAT? "Any time you get up against
the wall and try to make a situation out of a situation, it makes you more
focused. At least it does for me. You learn by your mistakes, the things you
do wrong, the things you do right. As a whole, we're probably better than we
were last week."

AFTER WHAT HAPPENED AT RICHMOND AFTER BOTH RACES, DOES THERE NEED TO BE A
BETTER DEFINITION OF WHAT A BUMP-AND-RUN IS? "I wish I knew what the
definition was for a lot of things. A lot of things confuse me at this
point. Bumping has always been a part of our sport. There's cars sliding
around the track, and there's 43 cars on the road. We've had this huge
argument that the sport is vanilla, we have this aero push and everybody
follows everybody around. Everybody gripes about too much activity after the
race, before the race, during the race. So I just take it for what I think
it's worth and react how I feel personally, so it's something where we can
complain about vanilla or we can complain about chocolate. When you complain
about both of them, it's something that will never work."

WHAT DOES BEING ON PROBATION THE REST OF THE YEAR MEAN TO YOU? "For the most
part, you just have to go out and race and hopefully it all shakes out. I'm
still racing for first, second, third, fourth, whatever, in the
championship. We just have to go out and race as hard as we did before. This
won't make it any different."

DOES THIS ENCOURAGE SETTLING IT ON THE TRACK VERSUS SETTLING IT AFTERWARDS,
AND DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU CAN AND CAN'T DO WHILE ON PROBATION? "It's cheaper
to wreck somebody on the race track than it is to have an altercation, which
is safer, but that's not for me to decide. It's just like the language
issue. My understanding is that was why I was fined. Maybe my words speak
twice as loud as somebody else's, I don't know. You just have to go about
your business as normal. It's not for me to interpret the rules or interpret
why the fines are what they are, why they are so much for wrecking somebody
on the track or so much for a post-race altercation. I don't even think
about it. I haven't written a check in five years. I don't even know where
it goes."

LOOKING BACK, WOULD YOU HAVE BEEN BETTER OFF TO HAVE DRIVEN YOUR CAR INTO
THE GARAGE, GOTTEN OUT AND EXPRESSED YOUR ANGER AT RICKY TO THE MEDIA? 'Oh
yeah. Definitely. Even if I'd have gone down pit road and not touched the
car. That was probably, besides the language, the only other thing that was
out of line. If I had parked my car, expressed my feelings and gone on with
my business, it probably would have been the best thing."




WILL YOU TALK WITH RICKY THIS WEEK? "A lot of the blame was put on me for
starting an incident. The incident started on the race track. I haven't
heard from Ricky Rudd, and I know the veteran approach to it is to always
call on Monday morning. If it wasn't on purpose, I didn't hear the phone
ring."

WHAT KIND OF IMPACT DO YOU THINK THIS WILL HAVE ON THE PIT CREW AND
STRATEGIES? "We're going to go out and kick their asses. That's the attitude
we have going."

YOUR CREW SHOWED UP EARLY THIS WEEK BECAUSE THEY WERE MOTIVATED? "It's a
motivated bunch. It's just a bunch of people that always race, like to race
and aren't there just because they can make more money doing the jobs they
do going to race tracks. They're there because they like to win and they're
competitive people. It's a lot of fun to go to the track with the guys. A
lot of them express the same emotions and feelings that I do and get wound
up as much as I do. Sometimes it's not good after the race, but it makes it
a lot of fun in the shop for all uf us."