It’s hard to believe that we’ve gone 11 races without a single Stewart-Haas Racing driver winning so far this season. I mean, at this point last year, SHR was coming off of their fifth win in the first 11 races and ended up winning again at Kansas for their sixth victory of the 2018 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series season.

Heading into Mothers Day a year ago, they’ve won literally half the races. This year, they’ve been shutout.

Also there’s this, heading into this weekend, they haven’t won a single race in NASCAR’s premiere series since last November at Texas and even that car was found to be illegal. Their last win for a car that passed inspection was the Talladega race last October. Their last legal win not on a superspeedway came at Michigan on Aug. 12. Prior to that, their win before the August Michigan win was at the June Michigan race.

Their last win away from a superspeedway or a 2-mile high speed oval was at this very race track a year ago.

You can see how far they’ve fallen since they left Kansas last May. But, maybe they can turn things back around this weekend.

Kevin Harvick has eight top 10 finishes in his last 11 Kansas starts including being the defending race winner. Furthermore, out of his last six Kansas starts, four of which have resulted in a finish inside of the top three. Out of those 11 races, Harvick has six top two’s. He sits third in the points standings right now and has finished fourth in five of his 11 starts in 2019. He’s close, but just needs a little bit more speed. He’s showing it though so far this weekend with being quickest in both practice sessions on the 10 lap averages and also being ninth and fourth respectively on single lap runs.

Aric Almirola should be tough too. He finished ninth in the Fall race of 2017 with RPM. He was also ninth and 10th respectively in the two races a year ago as well. In practice, he was first and ninth respectively on single lap runs and second in final practice on the 10 lap average chart. But, after starting 2019 off with a top 10 in six of the first seven races, over the last four, he’s finished 37th, 23rd, ninth and 16th respectively.

Clint Bowyer and Daniel Suarez have been feast or famine at Kansas but they’ve been quick on the season. Bowyer, has five top 10’s in his last six starts on the season and was second and third respectively in practice on Friday. Suarez, has six top 13 finishes in his last seven starts on the season too.

In qualifying, they earned a sweep of the first 2 Rows. Yes, they’ll start 1-2-3-4. When they have the best short run speed as well as the best long run speed, watch out.