Carson Hocevar
2026 Season: NASCAR Cup Series
● Playoff eligibleThrough September 19, 2026 · 85 pts behind leader
Roles
- Driver, Spire Motorsports
Coverage (16 articles)
Joey Logano Won the Bristol Night Race. Ryan Blaney Led 202 Laps and Finished 33rd.
Joey Logano came from fourth on the final restart for his 40th Cup Series win. Ryan Blaney, who led 202 laps, crashed out while racing Carson Hocevar for second and traded punches with him on pit road. Kyle Larson leads The Chase by one point.
Corey Heim Just Won the Brickyard 400. His Cup Points Total Is Still Zero.
Heim held off Christopher Bell by 0.287 seconds at Indianapolis and led more laps than anyone in the field. He is the defending Truck Series champion, declared for points in that series, and the official scoring report credits him with nothing in Cup.
Ryan Blaney survives a rain-delayed Atlanta marathon to win the Quaker State 400 in overtime
Ryan Blaney led 171 of 263 laps, kept handing the lead back to the pack, and took it for good in overtime to win a rain-delayed Quaker State 400 at Atlanta's EchoPark Speedway. It was his second win of 2026, Ford's 750th in Cup, and it moved him to third in the championship.
The Cup Series Returns to Chicagoland Speedway on Sunday, Its First Race There Since 2019
NASCAR's Cup Series returns to Chicagoland Speedway on Sunday for the first time since 2019, a 2,562-day gap. The eero 400 caps a three-day holiday weekend at the Joliet oval and lands in a regular-season points race that Denny Hamlin, after a six-race surge, now leads by a single point over Tyler Reddick.
NASCAR and the Rolling Stones Made a Deal. The Gimmick Has a Real Idea Underneath It.
NASCAR and the Rolling Stones announced a first-of-its-kind collaboration this week: co-branded merch, two collector vinyl pressings of the new album Foreign Tongues, and a listening-lounge show car touring Chicago. It reads like a cash grab. The idea underneath it is real.
Hamlin Charges From the Back to Win at Michigan, Honor an Old Friend
Denny Hamlin drove from the rear of the field to win the FireKeepers Casino 400 at Michigan for the second straight week, his 63rd career Cup win tying the late Kyle Busch for ninth all-time. He honored Busch with an 18-8 tribute flag, and with points leader Tyler Reddick wrecked out for his first DNF, cut the title gap to 51.
An Hour After His Car Broke, Hamlin Rolled Out Last at Michigan and Won the Pole
Denny Hamlin was the last car out at Michigan, an hour after a practice tire failure sent his crew scrambling to rebuild the bottom of the car, and ran 195.117 mph to win the pole for Sunday's FireKeepers Casino 400, the 50th of his Cup career. He edged Michigan native Carson Hocevar by .018 of a second. Toyota took four of the top five; Ford's best qualified 14th.
A YouTube Star Is About to Say the Most Famous Words in Racing — Then Go Race a Truck
Cleetus McFarland, 4.75 million YouTube subscribers and a real racing résumé, is pulling double duty at Michigan on Saturday: grand marshal and driver in the No. 4 Niece Motorsports truck. John Speedway on the most fun entry of the Truck Series weekend.
Spire Motorsports Opens the Mooresville Shop Thursday for Its Fifth Annual Spring Fan Day
Spire Motorsports' fifth-annual Spring Fan Day runs Thursday, May 21, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m. at the team's Mooresville HQ (351 Mazeppa Road). Autograph wristbands for Suárez, McDowell, Hocevar, Kyle Busch, and Mosack distributed first-come-first-served starting 8 a.m. 25% of the day's proceeds benefit the USO. A four-grandstand-tickets raffle for the Coca-Cola 600 also benefits the USO.
Honeycutt Beats Zilisch and SVG for His First Truck Win at The Glen
Kaden Honeycutt won his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race Friday at Watkins Glen, and did it by beating Connor Zilisch and Shane van Gisbergen, the two drivers who have dominated NASCAR road courses for two years. He also won the ARCA race at the same track earlier the same day, becoming the second driver in history to sweep both. Honeycutt now leads the Truck Series championship by 29 points.
Spire Motorsports Locked the Front Row at Texas.
Carson Hocevar won the pole at Texas Motor Speedway on Saturday in the Spire Motorsports No. 77, edging teammate Daniel Suárez by 0.003 seconds. It is the second pole of Hocevar's career, the second Spire car on the front row, and the third weekend in a row that Spire Motorsports, the Concord-based Cup team, has put a car in NASCAR's spotlight.
Corey Day's Final Lap Was the Only One. Now Texas.
Corey Day won Talladega last Saturday by leading exactly one lap, the last one, for Hendrick Motorsports. Six days later, the same Concord-Mooresville pipeline runs at Texas, with Kyle Larson in the JR Motorsports No. 88, Connor Zilisch in the No. 1, and Austin Dillon in the Richard Childress No. 3. Three Cup drivers, the final Dash 4 Cash of 2026, and Justin Allgaier with a stage-points pace nobody has hit since Denny Hamlin in 2021.
Darius Rucker Is Now a NASCAR Team Owner. That Tells You Everything About Where This Sport Is Headed.
Darius Rucker confirmed as co-owner of Legacy Motor Club on the Dan Patrick Show. Plus: O'Reilly Series posts its biggest Darlington audience in seven years, Denny Hamlin signals Tyler Reddick's contract extension is imminent, and the Cup Series heads to Martinsville.
Tyler Reddick Won His Fourth Race in Six Weeks. Darlington Couldn't Stop Him. Nobody Can.
Tyler Reddick won the Goodyear 400 at Darlington from the pole for his fourth Cup victory in six 2026 races, beating Brad Keselowski by 5.8 seconds despite cool shirt and electrical issues. Michael Jordan's 23XI Racing now has four of the first six wins this season.
Carson Hocevar Lost Friday Night at Darlington. Sunday He Goes Back in Earnhardt's Colors.
Friday night at Darlington, Carson Hocevar charged to the lead and lost it to a blown tire with four laps to go. Sunday he goes back out in Dale Earnhardt's 1981 Wrangler colors. That's not a comparison. That's just guts.
Corey Heim Restarts Ninth, Wins Darlington in Double Overtime: Remember This Kid's Name
Corey Heim chose to restart ninth in double overtime at Darlington, then drove to the front on the last corner to beat Ross Chastain and win the CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race. The 23XI development driver is making the case for a full-time Cup ride in 2027.