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Carson Hocevar, Ty Gibbs continue Las Vegas pit road beef after crash, furious comments

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Carson Hocevar
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Carson Hocevar continued to rant after getting into a pit road collision with Ty Gibbs at the NASCAR Cup Series race in Las Vegas. During the final stage, Hocevar hit Gibbs after taking two tires from his team on pit road.

“That’s f***ing…you might as well just take four…I have right front damage and I have left front,” Hocevar said, per Jeff Gluck of The Athletic. “I’ll come in and fix the f***ing thing.” Hocevar’s rant came after sounding off on Gibbs blocking him in the pit box.

It’s been an interesting start to the 2025 Cup Series season for Carson Hocevar. During the second week of the year, the 22-year-old earned a P2 finish at the Atlanta race, but it didn’t come without controversy. After the race, Ross Chastain and Ryan Blaney confronted Hocevar for his aggressive driving.

“We’re here to win races, not be a boy band and love each other and play in the playground together,” Hocevar said. “Obviously, there’s learning lessons. You don’t want to piss anybody off or frustrate anybody. There’s things I would clean up for sure.

Carson Hocevar was criticized for his aggressive driving

“It’s going to come with learning that. …I’m normally 40th waiting for them to crash and hopefully crash and I finish in the teens. To be up front and get stage points both stages and have a shot to win is something to held my head high real much. I’ve always said I’m a really bad superspeedway racer, so this at least gives me a little bit more confidence.”

Hocevar also talked about his conversations with Chastain and Blaney. “I’ll just leave those to myself,” Hocevar said. “… I normally ride in the back, and it was trying to get a good, decent finish and for how bad we were at Daytona. … There’s some stuff I gotta clean up a little bit, but I feel like we put ourselves in the perfect opportunity to try to win a race. I’ve never had that opportunity really before — especially on a superspeedway.”

Hocevar is in his second year as a full-time driver in the Cup Series. He competed in the Truck Series full-time from 2021 to 2023 and won four races during that span.