Carson Hocevar will try to “round the edges ...

As many of the storage seems to be ahead to Michigan, for some, ideas stay centered on a controversial incident at Nashville when Ricky Stenhouse Jr. went spinning off the nostril of Carson Hocevar, struggling his first DNF of the season.

Stenhouse was obviously frustrated as he was inside the provisional playoff grid on points before the wreck. For many drivers, this situation would not increase many eyebrows, however Hocevar has been ruffling feathers throughout the 2025 season. At Nashville, he went on to complete second, knocking on the door of his first NASCAR Cup Sequence victory.

Maintaining the velocity whereas smoothing out the sides

On SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, Jeff Dickerson, who co-owns Hocevar’s No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet, provided some perception into the problem. 

“Behind the wheel, he is doing every thing that we have requested of him,” mentioned Dickerson.

“I do not wish to gradual him down. I imply, we will not gradual him down. We really feel like the entire collection has type of checked out us for a number of years and been like, ‘what the hell are these guys doing over at Spire?’ Effectively, now we’re up there. So why would I wish to gradual that down?”

With that being mentioned, Dickerson admitted that there are some issues Hocevar can clear up behind the wheel, saying, “There are some issues l’d like him to — perhaps spherical out a few the sides. However I do not wish to gradual him down. I do not need him working into the #47 [Stenhouse] there. I would like them to chop him a break and let him again in and, you realize, type of present that maturity. However whenever you have a look at it, you are identical to, man. I imply, he would not have a ton of laps, you realize, nonetheless within the Cup automobile. Over time, he’ll study to — he is acquired to get his nostril out of there, not as a result of it was one thing that he did ‘fallacious.’ It was simply, why exit of your solution to make an enemy that you just need not?”

Dickerson went on to reward Stenhouse and the work Hyak Motorsports have achieved this yr as a single-car effort, calling the driving force of the #47 a “good buddy.”

Hocevar talks about discovering the proper stability

Carson Hocevar, Spire Motorsports Chevrolet

Picture by: David Jensen / Getty Pictures

Recent off of profitable the Cash within the Financial institution 150 tremendous late mannequin race, Hocevar joined SiriusXM NASCAR Radio on Wednesday, echoing the feedback of his group boss.

“I have a look at Jeff [Dickerson] for not simply race automobile recommendation, however, like, life recommendation and every thing else in between,” mentioned Hocevar. “So, like, he is lived it. And he mentioned so many occasions, I believe he mentioned on the DBC [Door Bumper Clear podcast], ‘you possibly can determine it out in your timeline, or my timeline, and l’d love to do my timeline, as a result of I believe it’ll be faster.’ So yeah, we glance, we have achieved it quite a bit.  We work quite a bit. Me, Tyler Inexperienced [spotter] and Luke Lambert [crew chief], we at all times sit down. We undergo a lot stuff.

“They provide me all each information they’ll discover, and we work nonstop about simply our communication, how we will get higher, how we will race others, how we will race ourselves, teammates, every thing, proper?

Hocevar says a number of “huge folks within the sport” have reached out to him to assist the 22-year-old on his journey. He repeated what Dickerson mentioned about wanting to maintain the identical stage of efficiency with out angering as many individuals.

“We do not wish to change … you do not wish to change. And you realize, lose our edge. However, as Jeff had advised me a number of occasions, let’s simply spherical the sides off and have much less moments of that and extra moments of passing the opposite 25 automobiles with out hitting them.”

NASCAR now heads to Michigan — Hocevar’s residence monitor. He might be competing in each the Truck and Cup Sequence races with Spire Motorsports.