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Brooklyn, Mich. – A week after contacting Carson Hocevar Ricky Stenhouse jr. Destroyed on Nashville, they spoke, but the impact of the incident remained.
Just watch this weekend in the garage on Michigan International Speedway. Their teams share a garage stall, just as they are side by side in the standings.
Stenhouse said on SiriusXM Nascar radio on Friday morning that, after talking to Hocevar, “I definitely see where he thought he could get on the inside of me before we got into the corner (at Nashville). The problem was that he didn’t.”
Seed for the challenge in the season begins with the first June race in Michigan since 2019.
Stenhouse’s crew head, Mike Kelley, spoke to Ryan Sparks, competition director at Spire Motorsports about Hocevar early in the week. Hocevar crew head Luke Lambert called Kelley this week.
“I don’t have respect for Carson,” Kelley told NBC Sports in Michigan on Friday. “I know he’s an upcoming talent, and I was in the sport long enough to know he’s, he has something special. … I told Luke to the phone the other night when he called me, that’s how you treat yourself.
“I would have been just as upset if he got out and said,” Man, I’m so sorry I ruined Ricky. “That’s not what I expected.
“I might expect him to say that he had to look at it and that he would come with Ricky. I could think he would have mentioned Ricky at least faster than him. But he called Ricky and they talked. Ricky called me and said he felt it was sincere and felt that we could go forward from here and race. “
Carson Hcevar bound his best finish to the career by placing second on Nashville.
Due to the Nashville incident, Stenhouse fell from 13 to 18 in the standings – and from a play -off match – when he finished 39th and scored one point on Nashville.
Kyle Busch holds the last play -off game. Stenhouse routes with six points. Stenhouse is one of the five drivers (including Hocevar) outside a play -off space within 13 points of Busch.
“Our Mulligan is gone,” Kelley said.
Four of the remaining 11 races in the ordinary season after Sunday’s event in Michigan are on a road or street lane. Stenhouse has two top-10 finishes in 43 Career Cup/Straattraas racing.
Two of the remaining 11 races in the usual season are on the setting of tracks. Although all four victories of Stenhouse’s career cup are in such a style of tracks, there is also a greater chance of being collected in an incident in those events.
That’s what makes only one point at Nashville Hurt for Stenhouse and his team.
The Nascar Cup series is the weekend after one of its fastest tracks with a trip to Michigan International Speedway.
Since last year, Stenhouse has scored an average of 17 points per race on a road or street. Compare this to the essay traces. Since last year, he has been an average of 28.7 points in setting tracks, which includes a win at Talladega.
Kelley recognizes the challenges of road and street courses for the team.
“We don’t chase on dreams and hope,” Kelley said. ‘We look at our worst links and try to make them better and try to get the best out of each day. We look at Roades racing, ‘Look, most of these guys are going to ruin the (exploding) at the end of this thing. Let us get all the stage points we can get in the middle, and then we will use at the end of the ends. “That’s how we look at it and that’s how we chase it. “
Because every point matters.
“We do look at points, because the end result for our race team, the end of the season, there are point -specific items we need to hit and targets and goals we have,” Kelley said. ‘One is top 20 and one is top 25 in (car owner) points, because where Nascar stops paying (bonuses at the end of the season). All of these are important.
“If someone says what happened to us in Nashville, it doesn’t matter, come and see me at Phoenix (at the end of the year). We finished 25th last year with (six) points and I think they were $ 600,000. So, if you don’t think that $ 600,000 does business for some people, I guarantee you.
“But there is also a pride. We did everything we felt that we could do all year to keep ourselves in position. At weeks we had a decent pace to do what we needed to do, and other weeks Ricky’s did just a good job of driving our car, and we had good racing this week. We were 13th place in points today.
“Does it do me (the play -offs)? Probably not, but it keeps me in the game. It keeps me in the thing. My wife explained it to me at about 5am on Tuesday morning, she said: ‘If you would have asked me in January that you would be three or four points from the cut -off 14 races, would you be happy? “I probably said. So that’s all we do. “
