Rising NASCAR driver Carson Hocevar is all set to kickoff his first season as a full-time driver within the NASCAR Cup Sequence. The 20-year-old Portage, Michigan native acquired promotion from Truck Sequence to Cup Sequence and can drive the #77 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for Spire Motorsports this season.
Spire Motorsports has perception in Hocevar’s racing expertise, which he confirmed as a part-time driver with Legacy Motor Membership and in a single race with Spire final yr.
In an interview with NBC Sports activities, Ryan Sparks, Corey LaJoie’s crew chief and Spire’s director of competitors, considers Hocevar a standout expertise inside his technology of drivers.
Sparks recalled Hocevar’s Cup debut race at Gateway the place the motive force showcased outstanding expertise, even overcoming challenges like a brake failure to make a powerful climb from twenty sixth to the highest 15 within the first stage. Nevertheless, Hocevar ended the race in thirty sixth place.
“I believe Carson Hocevar is a generational expertise. Folks simply haven’t actually seen it but. They noticed that 42 automobile change their efficiency immediately when he acquired in it. When he drove the seven automobile at Gateway — we ended up having a brake failure — however he went from twenty sixth to prime 15 within the first stage. Simply stuff that doesn’t sometimes occur. It’s form of our job to handle him,” Sparks informed NBC Sports activities.
Carson Hocevar made 9 Cup begins final yr primarily with LMC. He impressed everybody together with his efficiency by holding their automobiles clear and contending for top-10 finishes. His finest end of P11 got here at Bristol Motor Speedway.
Carson Hocevar has nothing to show to anybody within the rookie Cup season
The younger and promising expertise final month on X claimed that he has to show himself and to not anybody else after bagging a full-time drive within the Cup Sequence.
“Nothing, atleast i don’t suppose so, proved to myself that i might compete with a few of my hero’s and my group have extra confidence in me then i did earlier than getting extra possibilities final yr. undecided what extra to show different then for public opinion, however that’s whenever you overextend. It’s nearly execution to our potential as a corporation and as a race group,” Hocevar wrote on X.
Catch Carson Hocevar in motion when the 2024 Cup season kicks-off on the Busch Mild Conflict on the Coliseum on Feb. 4.