Kevin Harvick and Co. pick YouTuber Cleetus McFarland’s Daytona interview as the “Best viral moment” of 2025 NASCAR season

Kevin Harvick and podcast co-hosts choose 2025 NASCAR season
Kevin Harvick and podcast co-hosts choose 2025 NASCAR season's best viral moment. Images via Imagn.

Kevin Harvick and his podcast co-hosts, Mamba Smith and Kaitlyn Vincie, voted Cleetus McFarland's hilarious post-race interview at Daytona International Speedway as the season's top viral moment. The YouTuber and part-time Rette Jones Racing driver made four starts in the ARCA Menards Series this season.

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McFarland's interview with FOX NASCAR reporter Vincie went viral for his candid remarks in February after he had just made his series debut and got involved in multiple wrecks. McFarland's day ended early with a DNF, as he said after the race:

"I was having the best day of my life, riding around Daytona like a bald eagle."

During the final Kevin Harvick's Happy Hour podcast episode of the year, Vincie revealed their pick for the best viral moment and said:

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"As this interview was unfolding, I was just like, 'Is this this is real?"

Meanwhile, Harvick said:

"I would have just been like, 'Oh, that was that was the greatest interview ever.'"
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McFarland did manage to land two top-10 finishes after his season-opening crash, at Talladega Superspeedway and another at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Kevin Harvick and podcast co-hosts choose best NASCAR Cup burnout for 2025 season

Kevin Harvick and his podcast team also picked the best burnout for the 2025 season during the same episode. This year, Chase Elliott started the season with a win in the Clash and gave a high starting point for burnouts. He started down the back straightaway, drifted the car backwards, kicked out the tail, and carried it all around the wall.

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Shane van Gisbergen's burnout at Watkins Glen International was the fan favorite. SVG won his fourth Cup win at the road course in August and burned rubber all around the track after winning the race by 11.116 seconds and high-fived his crew at the end.

"SVG really step into the showmanship of what comes with celebrating after the race. ... We've seen some good ones. The middle finger out the window, last year. But he basically went everywhere around this racetrack [Watkins Glen] doing burnouts. I was surprised that the tires lasted as long that that that they did. And he made it all the way back around to the front straightaway," Kevin Harvick said on YouTube (20:00).
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However, the hosts voted Kyle Larson's championship burnout at Phoenix as the best for the 2025 season. After finishing in third after Ryan Blaney and Brad Keselowski, Larson parked against the fence, sat on the door, and waved the Hendrick Motorsports flag as he picked up his second Cup title.

William Byron's burnout at Martinsville Speedway, where he did a perfect donut and parked at the start/finish line, also made it to the team's top-4 this season.

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