Ricky Stenhouse Jr. furious with Carson Hocevar after second tangle in three weeks

Bob Pockrass

FOX Motorsports Insider

MEXICO CITY — Ricky Stenhouse Jr. doesn’t care if Carson Hocevar made a mistake Sunday.

Stenhouse seemed like a driver who cared about simply getting even, however with the data he in all probability shouldn’t do something on international soil that might make issues much more sophisticated for him.

Hocevar turned Stenhouse throughout the last stage Sunday of the inaugural Cup race at Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, and after the race Stenhouse went to Hocevar’s automobile and with Hocevar nonetheless in it, yelled at him and hit his helmet.

“I’m going to beat your ass after we get again within the States,” Stenhouse informed him.

Carson Hocevar has drawn the ire of Ricky Stenhouse Jr. after current racing incidents.

Hocevar had turned Stenhouse simply two weeks earlier at Nashville. So two occasions in three races did Hocevar ruined a possible stable end for the veteran Stenhouse.

“I informed him on the cellphone [after Nashville], if it occurs once more, we will have points,” Stenhouse mentioned after the temporary trade. “After which that one was even worse as a result of he is a lap down. He is racing no one.

“I used to be engaged on the 34 [of Todd Gilliland] attempting to work my method ahead. The tire attrition was fairly troublesome coming all the way down to the tip of it. And simply from two, three [lengths] again, he simply ran proper behind us. A very dumb transfer, two out of three weeks on me now.”

In his second yr of Cup racing, Hocevar tried to get in just a few phrases with Stenhouse to confess the error.

“I do know he was very mad, and I used to be very apologetic,” Hocevar mentioned. “I simply bought left and within the marbles and slid loads longer than I anticipated. Clearly, No. 1, that is not anyone I might ever wish to hit once more. However No. 2, I wasn’t racing something. I used to be simply logging laps, simply attempting to attend on a yellow and possibly see if we are able to put our day again collectively.

“I simply hit a curb incorrect and bought within the marbles and slid right through the nook. I attempted to show left and keep away from him. However only a actually, actually sloppy day by me. After which that was one other incident of the day that was actually simply sloppy.”

And Stenhouse was actually mad. He completed twenty seventh; Hocevar thirty fourth.

“I usually do not cuss or something, however that stuff will get me fairly heated once I’m on the market on the lead lap, attempting to work my method ahead,” Stenhouse mentioned. “I felt like we had a automobile that was higher on the long term versus the blokes we had been racing and felt like I may have gotten into the top-20 proper there, however didn’t have the chance.”

Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR and IndyCar for FOX Sports activities. He has spent a long time protecting motorsports, together with over 30 Daytona 500s, with stints at ESPN, Sporting Information, NASCAR Scene journal and The (Daytona Seashore) Information-Journal. Comply with him on Twitter @bobpockrass.