NASCAR Cup Series driver Carson Hocevar won’t be surprised if Ricky Stenhouse Jr. takes revenge for the incidents he caused at Nashville and Mexico City. The contact in Mexico prompted a strong reaction from Stenhouse Jr., who walked up to Hocevar and threatened that he would see him in the USA.
Hocevar’s move into Stenhouse Jr. in Nashville triggered tensions between the two drivers, as the latter lost several positions in the Cup Series race, while Hocevar finished second.
What escalated the rivalry further was Hocevar making contact with Stenhouse Jr. for the second time in Mexico. This made Stenhouse Jr. furious. Newsweek Sports reported the comments made by the Hyak Motorsports driver to Hocevar after the race. He said:
“I’m going to beat your a**. You’re a lap down. You got nothing to do. Why did you run right into me? Second time.”
He added before walking away:
“I’m going to beat your a** when we get back to the States.”
Jeff Gluck of The Athletic reported on X that Hocevar is aware of an incoming payback. He wrote:
“Carson Hocevar says he knows payback is coming from Ricky Stenhouse Jr., and he knows it’s fair. He says the scorecard is 2-0, he’s been a fan for a long time and he knows how this all works — whether that’s tomorrow or six months from now.”
Quoting Hocevar, he added:
“You live in the world you make for yourself, and this is the world I’ve made.”
Carson Hocevar says he knows payback is coming from Ricky Stenhouse Jr., and he knows it’s fair. He says the scorecard is 2-0, he’s been a fan for a long time and he knows how this all works — whether that’s tomorrow or six months from now.
“You live in the world you make for…
— Jeff Gluck (@jeff_gluck) June 21, 2025
Stenhouse Jr. acknowledged that he had calmed down after the Mexico incident but admitted to being frustrated. Speaking on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, he said:
“I’ve calmed down a little bit. My wife talks me off the ledge sometimes. She does a good job of that. But it doesn’t change the fact that you get spun out for no reason. Felt like it cost us at least seven spots. We didn’t wreck like at Nashville, but we put ourselves in a spot. We got spun a couple times in that race. And just kept trying to fight back and get our track position. Felt like on that long run there at the end – there was still three or four spots right there in front of us that we could get and we ended up giving up another four or five spots.
“Just frustrating, obviously, when you got someone a lap down that had ran into you a couple weeks before that. Our talk after Nashville – he said, ‘Hey, I’m going to run you a lot different,’ which hey, at Mexico City, he waved me by. I was like, ‘Alright, things are looking up.’ And then, he missed his marks and came from pretty far back and ran into us. Again, I know he wasn’t racing us. But it’s really frustrating for my team and our partners and myself to get spun at a stage like that where there was nothing to be raced for.”
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