Rodney Childers Doesn’t Mince Words With Blunt Response to Infamous Kevin Harvick Question

Rodney Childers and Kevin Harvick were an unstoppable duo at Stewart-Haas Racing from 2014 to 2022. Among the 36 victories that Childers guided Harvick to, the most controversial one was Harvick’s 2018 victory at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. So when fans brought up the topic on social media and tried to criticize Rodney Childers for supposedly cheating during the race, he did not hold back from demolishing their comments against him and his team.

Rodney Childers finally snaps back at the Las Vegas cheating allegations

The entire banter started when Rodney Childers was replying to a fan’s comments on social media. Harvick and Childers were insanely successful at the Texas Motor Speedway in particular, winning over seven podiums and three races there. This naturally made a fan ask online how the two were able to claim so much success in Texas.

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Rodney Childers replied in style, “Fast cars and good people….,” laying it on teamwork and having a good car setup. But it didn’t stop there.

The fans kept pushing further to try to know if his team had a lesser-known strategy for the same, making comments like, “Come on now you had to have a little something extra… let the fans in on the secret.”

But one fan took it too far and replied to that thread with the same accusation Childers faced back then. “A bent down window for down force maybe..”

To put things into perspective, the fan is talking about the infamous cheating allegations that arose in 2018 against the Stewart-Haas Racing team and Rodney Childers. During the 2018 NASCAR race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the rear window brace of Kevin Harvick’s car broke, and the window bent. It gave some people the perception that this bent window is an aerodynamic advantage for the car. They accused Kevin Harvick’s crew chief of knowingly tampering with the wing and letting it fail.

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NASCAR, however, did not find any illegalities in the wing. They considered it a racing incident and let Rodney Childers and the team get off the hook. But for Childers, going through the allegations once again reopened his old wounds, making him snap on social media.

That comment was not even directed towards Childers, but he made sure to write a cold reply to it, saying, “151 top 5’s over 10 years, and 50 years from now y’all will still be talking about that one race that the pencil brace broke at Vegas…”