Edwards-Harvick feud intensifies; Edwards calls Harvick "a bad person''

The Brad Keselowski-Carl Edwards episode now includes Kevin Harvick, who during a radio program this week called Edwards "fake as hell.''

Asked about the comment, Harvick said Friday of Edwards: "You can't be the nice guy, you can't be the bad guy and you can't be the bully. So, that's just how I feel about that.''

Edwards responded Friday at Bristol by telling The Associated Press: "I have absolutely no respect for (Harvick) I think he's a bad person. That's my opinion. I've told him that. We've had our deal before and his actions through that ... were so devious and underhanded and cowardly that I just no respect for him. When people like that question me, it makes me feel better because if those people were lined up patting me on the back, I'd be on the wrong side of what's right and wrong. And I truly believe that. I am not trying to be a good guy or a bad guy.

"That's just who I am. All those people that say whatever they say, know that if I have an issue with them, I go speak to them. I don't go talk behind their back like little girls, that's what a lot of them do. I learned that wasn't cool in about fifth grade.''

Harvick declined to comment about what Edwards said about him.

This isn't the first time these two have had issues. Remember the incident in the Nationwide garage at Charlotte two years ago. Edwards approached Harvick in the garage that day. After a heated conversation, Harvick turned to walk away and, according to witnesses, Edwards grabbed him by the shoulder and spun him around. Harvick then shoved Edwards in retaliation, forcing Edwards on to the hood of Harvick's Nationwide car. According to an ESPN.com report then, witnesses claimed the exchange was in reference to a handwritten note Edwards left on a seat in Harvick's airplane after the race at Talladega the previous weekend. The note, according to the story, "facetiously thanked Harvick for disparaging comments he made toward Edwards on ABC following a multicar wreck ... which was triggered when Edwards tapped teammate Greg Biffle.''

The Charlotte Observer reported that Edwards sarcastically wrote in that note: "I was really trying to screw up everyone's day. Love, Carl.''

 After the incident in the Charlotte garage two years ago, Harvick said of the confronation: "You just got to be careful who you want to pick a fight with. If you want to pick a fight with the wrong person, sometimes it turns around and bites you no matter how big and tough you think you are.''

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