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Lebanon, Tenn. – Carson Hcevar apologized. No, not for contact with Ricky Stenhouse Jr., has a case that Hocevar told him to review it. And Hocevar did not apologize for being a bull in a China store, at least that some participants see him.
After bringing the best end to the second Sunday night in Nashville Superspeedway, Hocevar apologized to an interview.
“I’m about to throw up,” he said.
The 22-year-old man turns and walks to the lawn and just does it. He then felt better and talked to reporters again.
Nothing is ordinary with Hocevar, reminiscent of a belly Bronco that still needs to be completely tamed, full of energy and is able to force others to respond to what they do.
Even Nashville winner Ryan Blaney acknowledged what Hocevar did with Spire Motorsports this season.
“Spire was very fast this year,” Blaney said after his first win of the season. ‘Mainly the 77 (HCEVAR). He was really good and had a good chance of winning the race last week and ran really well tonight. “
The team Penske driver took control of a long green flag run to end the race after winning phase 2.
Hocevar seems to include his first win in the Career Cup, provided he can use his talent and perform his team a clean race. It almost came together on Sunday.
The victory might have come to the Coca-Cola 600 last week, and his engine did not blew while he was second with less than 100 rounds.
“We’re right at the door,” Jeff Dickerson, co-owner of Spire Motorsports, told NBC Sports after Sunday’s race in Nashville Superspeedway. ‘It was different from (the Coca-Cola 600) where we had a lot of speed early and regularly. It was more a real, adult finish for the group. I am proud of (HCEVAR).
“We still had our drama there. I wish he would have cut Ricky just more than anything. I don’t know if it was completely on Carson, but I expect him to make a man such a break. It’s all part of the building block. I’d rather have the discussion with him to a second place than 32nd. ‘
Quotes from the longest concrete track on the Nascar Cup series schedule.
Hocevar noted that he continues to learn, but is also ready to win and say this weekend: ‘I feel like I know how to win. It’s just to be enough detailed to work it out. ‘
And avoiding problems with competitors.
After completing the runner-up in Atlanta in February, the Second Year Cup driver upset several drivers with him. Blaney and Ross Chastain talked to him after the race about his management.
While admitting he had room to grow on the track, he remained confident in what he was doing.
“We are here to win races and not be a boy orchestra and love each other and play together on the playground,” Hocevar said at the time.
Carson Hcevar recently bought a bakkie like Dale Earnhardt’s GM Goodwrench No. 3.
Hcevar is the third young driver with which Luke Lambert has been paired as a crew in his 13 -year career, and these experiences help him connect more with Hocevar.
“I think what I have learned to work with different rookies, and now with Carson, it’s so much about managing expectations and building up the mental toughness to be a cup manager, which you really can’t develop without the experience of management in this series … The mental toughness needed to manage these cup racing is really the difference.”
The team Penske manager becomes the ninth manager to win in the 2025 season.
So how does Lambert Hcevar help with that?
“It’s a 24/7 focus on discipline,” Lamber said. “Our focus is to develop the right amount of discipline for him without killing his creativity. It takes conversations about everything that happens on the track, but also conversations that happen about everything in your life between races.”
Lambert calls Hocevar ‘one of the most creative racing car drivers I have ever had because he finds ways to do things with the car that other guys wouldn’t think of, or he might not have seen another man.’
The end point of Hocevar moved him within four points from Kyle Busch, holding the final play -off match with 12 races left in the ordinary season. After the start of the 26th, it made the performance even more significant.
“Super proud of our group and what we are doing now,” Lambert said on the team’s radio. “We prove that we are heading in the right direction. We’re going to keep it up. The fact that we agreed tonight and got this finish is just another example of our heading in the right direction.
‘Good magic for next week. Let’s have fun. ‘
