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USA Today
24-02-2025
- Automotive
- USA Today
Why multiple NASCAR drivers were furious with 'moron' Carson Hocevar
It wasn't just one NASCAR Cup Series driver who was furious with second-year pro Carson Hocevar. After finishing second at the Ambetter Health 400 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Hocevar was confronted by both Ross Chastain and Ryan Blaney. Some of his moves in the race ticked off those drivers, with Blaney getting spun out after a Hocevar nudge. What's more, Blaney called him a 'moron' on his radio discussion after the spinout, and Kyle Busch let loose with an expletive-filled rant on radio that ended with 'I'm gonna wreck his [butt].' Here's what went down and the reaction from those drivers: #NASCAR … Kyle Busch on Carson Hocevar after tonight's race at Atlanta — Dustin Long (@dustinlong) February 24, 2025 "He's just a moron." Ryan Blaney is not happy with Carson Hocevar. 😳🏁 — FOX: NASCAR (@NASCARONFOX) February 23, 2025 Here's what Hocevar had to say: Hocevar says while he has some things to clean up, he's here to win races not build boy bands, express love for others, or play on playgrounds together. #NASCAR — Toby Christie (@Toby_Christie) February 24, 2025
Yahoo
22-02-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
NASCAR Drivers Blasted with 'Kitty Litter' During Truck Race Red Flag
During Saturday's NASCAR Craftsman Truck race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Rajah Caruth initiated a five-truck crash that created an excess of debris on the race track. While the remaining trucks were parked on the cushion, NASCAR's response vehicles came around to lay the quick dry grit, which is nearly identical to kitty litter and is called that colloquially by most of the drivers. Moments later, the jet dryers followed, spraying the kitty litter directly toward the stopped trucks. "I don't like sand. It's coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere." — FOX: NASCAR (@NASCARONFOX) February 22, 2025 Unfortunately for the remaining drivers, NASCAR truck's cockpits are exposed on the righthand side, and when the vehicles came by, everybody was peppered with grit. Fortunately for the fans who were listening to the drivers' radios, they handled it hilariously. Kyle Busch, who won the second stage, was heard on the radio concerned about debris on the track and then again when he realized how the cleanup crew was going to clear it. "They're going to blow all of that right into our trucks," Busch said. "We have no right-side windows." Once peppered through coughs, Busch quipped that he doesn't own a cat for this very reason. "I've never owned a cat, and I can see why," Busch said over the radio. Kyle Busch after that caution comes out says the track still was not cleaned off well enough: "That backstretch was not cleared. Debris everywhere. What are we doing?... I don' t think there's an area of the track or apron that doesn't have debris on it." — Jeff Gluck (@jeff_gluck) February 22, 2025 Once the race went back green, it didn't stay for long as Frankie Muniz and pole-sitter Conner Mosack collided, and according to Busch, even though the jet dry and kitty litter spectacle, the track was never entirely cleared of debris. You Might Also Like You Need a Torque Wrench in Your Toolbox Tested: Best Car Interior Cleaners The Man Who Signs Every Car
New York Times
17-02-2025
- Automotive
- New York Times
Ryan Preece, after Daytona 500 crash, warns NASCAR getting close to tragedy
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — As Cole Custer watched a replay of the accident, he was aghast at the sheer violence. He gasped, then uttered an expletive and shook his head. The replay Custer was watching wasn't the multi-car incident that transpired in overtime of Sunday's Daytona 500, the one that included the Haas Factory Team driver and cost him a chance to pull off an upset win in NASCAR's crown jewel race. No, this accident involved Ryan Preece, who saw his car get struck on the right side causing it to pop a wheelie, get airborne, flip onto its roof, skid up the banking and hit the wall before flipping back onto its wheels. The wreck bore a striking similarity to Ryan Newman's accident on the final lap of the 2020 Daytona 500, something Custer noted as he watched the replay of Preece's crash. "When the car took off like that, it got real quiet and all I thought about was my daughter." 🙏 –@RyanPreece_ after a scary moment where his car flipped in the final laps of the #Daytona500 — FOX: NASCAR (@NASCARONFOX) February 17, 2025 Thankfully, Preece was uninjured. But afterward, he sounded the alarm that the driver in question may not be so lucky next time. 'When the car took off like that and it got real quiet, all I thought about was my daughter,' Preece said in the Fox broadcast. 'I'm lucky to walk away, but we're getting really close to somebody not being able to. Advertisement 'It's frustrating when you end your day like this.' Sunday marked the second time in the past four Daytona races that Preece has been in an accident involving his car getting airborne and tumbling violently. During the 2023 Daytona summer race, Preece's spinning car launched off curbing along the backstretch, then proceeded to flip 10 times. He was hospitalized overnight for observation before being released the following day. He competed in NASCAR's next race the following weekend at Darlington, though both his eyes were severely bruised and bloodshot. As happens in most instances whenever a car gets airborne, NASCAR officials will study Preece's car from his most recent Daytona accident. Officials have already begun coordinating when to visit RFK Racing to inspect the car, investigating whether the safety components functioned as designed and what can be done to help keep cars on the ground, then act accordingly. Two incidents from last year exemplify how NASCAR typically responds to a harrowing crash, both of which were similar to Preece's. During a race at Michigan, Corey LaJoie's car flipped on its roof, skidded across the track, then flipped multiple times after catching the transition from asphalt to grass. The next week during the summer Daytona race, Josh Berry's car flipped on its roof and skidded, nose first, into an inside retaining wall. Both LaJoie and Berry were OK. Many within the garage have asked whether it's a coincidence or a trend that multiple cars have flipped, skidded across the track, then flipped again. Nonetheless, that it's happened three times within the past six months raises eyebrows. 'I don't know if it's the diffuser or what that makes these cars like a sheet of plywood when you walk out on a windy day,' Preece said Sunday, referring to the device that accelerates the flow of air under the car to increase downforce when the car is on the track. Advertisement After the crashes by LaJoie and Berry, NASCAR instituted several modifications with the intent of better keeping cars on the ground and protecting drivers. On Sunday night, Berry offered a suggestion in a post on X on how he'd like NASCAR to react with another modification intent on keeping cars on the ground. 'Needs another roof rail,' he wrote. (Top photo of Ryan Preece's car flipped on its hood after Sunday's wreck: James Gilbert / Getty Images)
