MEXICO CITY — Ricky Stenhouse Jr. doesn’t care if Carson Hocevar made a mistake Sunday.
Stenhouse gave the impression of a driver who cared about simply getting even, however with the information he in all probability shouldn’t do something on international soil that might make issues much more difficult for him.
Hocevar turned Stenhouse throughout the remaining 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 once we get again within the States,” Stenhouse advised him.
Carson Hocevar has drawn the ire of Ricky Stenhouse Jr. after latest racing incidents.
Hocevar had turned Stenhouse simply two weeks earlier at Nashville. So two instances in three races did Hocevar ruined a possible stable end for the veteran Stenhouse.
“I advised him on the telephone [after Nashville], if it occurs once more, we’ll have points,” Stenhouse mentioned after the transient alternate. “After which that one was even worse as a result of he is a lap down. He is racing no person.
“I used to be engaged on the 34 [of Todd Gilliland] attempting to work my manner 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 a couple of 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 received left and within the marbles and slid rather a lot longer than I anticipated. Clearly, No. 1, that is not anyone I’d ever need 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 perhaps see if we are able to put our day again collectively.
“I simply hit a curb flawed and received within the marbles and slid during 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 after I’m on the market on the lead lap, attempting to work my manner ahead,” Stenhouse mentioned. “I felt like we had a automobile that was higher on the long term versus the fellows we had been racing and felt like I might 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 many years protecting motorsports, together with over 30 Daytona 500s, with stints at ESPN, Sporting Information, NASCAR Scene journal and The (Daytona Seaside) Information-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass.
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