Denny Hamlin reacts to Kyle Busch beef with Carson Hocevar at Atlanta

Kyle Busch threatened to wreck Carson Hocevar after Stage 1 of Sunday’s Ambetter Health 400 at Atlanta.

“Go tell that 77 [Hocevar] he’s done that same f***ing move 10 times,” Busch said over his radio. “I don’t care if I wreck the whole f***ing field, I’m over him. He’s a f***ing douchebag, I’m going to wreck his ass.”

Busch never wrecked Hocevar, though he did give him the bird. Denny Hamlin never thought his former Joe Gibbs Racing teammate would actually dump Hocevar, saying that drivers are “telephone tough guys.”

“We are telephone tough guys, no doubt about it,” Hamlin said on Monday’s Actions Detrimental podcast. “We will threaten over the radio anyone and everyone. ‘If he does this, I’m gonna send him over the fence,’ and then nothing ever happens. As a driver, when you’re saying that you’re trying — or at least I am, I don’t want to speak for everyone — you’re trying to send a message to either the crew chief or spotter on that driver’s team to hear you and then say, ‘Hey, be careful around Denny, he’s pretty pissed.’ That’s all you’re trying to do is get the message out to them.”

Kyle Busch addresses Carson Hocevar drama after eventful Atlanta race

Hocevar, who finished a career best second, didn’t make too many friends throughout the 400-mile race. The reigning Cup Series Rookie of the Year also had on-track incidents with Ross Chastain and Ryan Blaney, and the two veterans each confronted him on pit road after the race.

Busch didn’t but later gave his thoughts on Hocevar while speaking with the media.

“He just had a lot of, lot of, lot of close calls,” Busch told Dustin Long of NBC Sports. “I mean, he wasn’t even clear on me. I had to lift, and he put me in the fence off of two in the first stage. So, he’s just trying to plug holes and doing it last second and last minute and creating log jams on back. It’s just, do it at the end, you know, do it in the last 30 laps, not in the first 230.”

Hamlin never saw what happened between Hocevar and Busch, but he has an idea.

“I didn’t see it, but more than likely what happened is Carson put him in a horrible spot, and it forced him to check up which then could have gotten him wrecked,” Hamlin said, “Again, I didn’t see it, but I’ll take Kyle’s word for it.”