Kevin Harvick and son Keelan practice at Stateline Speedway in Post Falls
Kevin Harvick and 13-year-old Keelan brought national star power to Post Falls, where 37 drivers turned Stateline Speedway into a regional draw.
Kevin Harvick and his 13-year-old son, Keelan, gave Stateline Speedway an unusual kind of Saturday spotlight: a former NASCAR Cup Series champion and a rising teenage driver sharing the same Post Falls track in front of a 37-car field. Harvick, the 2014 Cup title winner, was seen reviewing test data at MØDE Stadium Stateline Speedway while Keelan talked with a crew member, turning the Road to the Idaho 200 into more than a routine short-track stop.
That father-son image mattered because the race reached well beyond Kootenai County. The entry list included drivers from eight states and Canada, and the event was part of the Spears CARS Tour Northwest Pro Late Model program, which is in its inaugural nine-race season. For Stateline Speedway, the Harvicks’ presence added marquee value to a quarter-mile banked oval that also features a figure 8 track in the middle and raised concrete grandstands.
The June 13 race was the first of two Northwest Pro Late Model visits to Stateline Speedway and served as the third race of the series’ nine-race schedule. It also functioned as a lead-in to the 27th Annual Idaho 200, which Stateline’s schedule lists for July 17-18, with practice set for July 16. That timing gives the Post Falls facility a larger role on the regional racing calendar, not just as a local weekend venue but as a stop on a touring series that reaches drivers and fans across the West.
Harvick’s appearance carried extra weight because he is also a co-owner of Spears CARS Tour West, the series founded in 2024 and billed as the premier stock car series on the West Coast. Keelan Harvick’s entry added another layer of attention after Toyota Racing Development signed him to a long-term driver deal in February 2026, signaling that his run at Stateline was part of a broader climb in the sport.
The track itself has been leaning into a bigger identity. Stateline Speedway announced its rebranding to MØDE Stadium Stateline Speedway on March 8, 2025, and current ownership says the track first opened in 1974. The Stateline Legacy project traces an earlier chapter, preserving the first ten years of the facility’s history from 1956 to 1965. On a weekend built around Kevin Harvick and his son, that history and present-day momentum met in one place, and Post Falls got a race night with the kind of profile that travels far beyond the grandstands.
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