Stewart-Haas Racing is facing a difficult task this weekend at the Darlington Raceway. See, they were one of those teams who took a big swing at crew chief changes. Clint Bowyer and Aric Almirola swapped crew chiefs while Cole Custer moved up with his crew chief from the Xfinity Series to Cup.

Rookies haven’t fared well this season and I don’t expect that to change on Sunday at NASCARs toughest track. Bowyer and Almirola have struggled out of the gates in 2020 too with Bowyer landing two finishes of 12th or worse and his season best result of fifth in Phoenix, the Kansas native said that they need way more speed.

Almirola, scored a pair of eighth place finishes over his last two races but was 22nd and 21st in the two races prior.

Bowyer, has one top 10 finish in his last 12 Darlington starts with his last three being 22nd, 40th and 36th. Almirola, has never scored a top 10 in eight Darlington tries with his last four finishes being 32nd, 20th, 14th and 17th.

Not a good trio for SHR to contend for a win with this weekend.

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Despite that, Kevin Harvick may though. Since joining SHR in 2014, Harvick has been en fuego at Darlington. He’s never finished outside of the top 10 in six tries and has led 518 laps in those race. In 16 starts with RCR, he led a combined 63 laps on the same race track.

His only problem has been, he’s failed to lead a lap in each of the last two years and despite leading 518 laps in those other four races, he’s only won just once.

Harvick, does have a top 10 in all four races run this season and has had Rodney Childers on top of his pit box since 2014 too.