The turmoil that rocked Richard Childress Racing at Martinsville Speedway last month could have easily spelled the end of Kevin Harvick's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series title hopes. Yet in spite of the on-track altercation between Harvick and fellow RCR driver Ty Dillon in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race, and in spite of the heat-of-the-moment comments made by Harvick afterward, the No. 29 Sprint Cup Series team finds itself clinging to a shot at the championship as the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup heads to Homestead for the season-ending Ford EcoBoost 400. "This deal is tough enough like it is, and obviously you don't want things like that to happen, but it did," Gil Martin, Harvick's Sprint Cup crew chief, said of the Martinsville dust-up during a teleconference Tuesday. "That's exactly the reason I'm leaving RCR because you've got those punk-ass kids coming up," Harvick said afterward.
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