With Harvey’s acquisition of Blewett for three races, plus a confirmed six-race slate that Myers will run “for sure,” the re-branded EH Motorsports No. 1 is scheduled be on track for at least nine of the 16 events on the 2018 schedule.
Myers will kick off the season for EH Motorsports in the No. 1 modified at Myrtle Beach Speedway on March 17.
He will also run the tour races at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park on April 8; Bristol Motor Speedway on Aug. 15; Oswego Speedway on Sept. 1; Stafford Motor Speedway on Sept. 30 and the season finale at Thompson on Oct. 14.
However, Harvey is hoping to add even more races to that calendar, especially after the recent announcement that Whelen Engineering will up the ‘Winner of the Race’ Award from $500 to $3,500 – making a majority of the series’ races this year worth $10,000 or more to win.
That’s something that has made running the Tour, which is predominately northern-based, much more feasible for a southern-based team like Harvey’s if they can go out and perform well on a regular basis.
“With everything that Phil Kurze and Whelen (Engineering) have done for the Tour lately, the new venues that have been added and what (series) director Jimmy Wilson is doing, I want to run as many Tour races as I can,” Harvey said. “In a perfect world, if I can come up with enough sponsorship or put together the perfect situations, I’d love to run them all.”
“With my team being one of the few that runs as many (Tour races) as we do from down here in the south, the extra things that are going on right now for the Tour really come into play. It helps offset the travel, the lodging costs … all of those things that many of the teams up north don’t have to worry about as much with 90 percent of the races being up there. But if we can come up with a bit of extra funding, with all the good things going on right now, I think we could find a way to do them all.”
“(Ryan) Preece and (Ed) Partridge proved last year that you can chase the owner’s title and win it if you have the right people, and that’s something I’d be really honored to have a chance to do with this team if we could put the right pieces in place.”
But while those pieces are still coming together for now, Harvey is simply happy that two of the big pieces in NASCAR modified history — a Blewett and a Harvey — are coming together again for a new chapter in the book.
“This is something that I’ve talked about with Jimmy and wanted to do with him for a while, and it just finally all came together now to get the band back together again,” said Harvey. “It honestly feels like it was meant to be. It really does.”
