{"id":9004,"date":"2025-07-20T18:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T18:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/9004\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T18:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T18:16:10","slug":"josh-berry-left-on-read-by-carson-hocevar-after-sonoma-wreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/9004\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Berry left on read by Carson Hocevar after Sonoma wreck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>,Late in the NASCAR Cup Series race at Sonoma Raceway, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/josh-berry\/1176\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Josh Berry<\/a> got into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/carson-hocevar\/953387\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Carson Hocevar<\/a> in Turn 1, sending the No. 77 spinning. Berry went on to finish 13th while Hocevar fell back to 32nd.<\/p>\n<p>While some believed the contact to be intentional, Berry has revealed that this was not the case.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 43 [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/erik-jones\/19934\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Erik Jones<\/a>] was a restart at turn seven.\u00a0Obviously, we\u2019re all jammed up into each other,&#8221; explained Berry on Saturday, at Dover. &#8220;The 4 [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/noah-gragson\/407569\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Noah Gragson<\/a>] car was on my right and kind of clipped me, and we just all got bottle-necked up and he got turned around . The 77 [Hocevar] was a complete mistake on my part.\u00a0I laid off at the bottom of one.\u00a0I was trying to time it to where I could get up beside Carson and follow the 45 [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.motorsport.com\/driver\/tyler-reddick\/19367\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tyler Reddick<\/a>] through and was just too fast to the top of the hill, got too far left and ran into Carson and knocked him off the track.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/josh-berry-wood-brothers-racin.jpg\" alt=\"Josh Berry, Wood Brothers Racing Ford\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Josh Berry, Wood Brothers Racing Ford<\/p>\n<p class=\"photographer\">Photo by: Meg Oliphant \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s unfortunate.\u00a0Obviously, I hate it for those guys.\u00a0I tried calling Carson on Monday and sent him a text, but never heard anything back.\u00a0I did talk to Luke [Lambert, crew chief for #77] on Monday morning to apologize to those guys and it\u2019s just part of racing.\u00a0We were on old tires and, for me, probably just trying a little too hard in that situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hocevar has been in the middle of several run-ins this year, but normally, he was the aggressor.<\/p>\n<p>This time, Hocevar was on the receiving end of some overzealous driving. He has since made it clear that he does not intend to respond to Berry, but not out of anger. He simply believes Monday phone calls to apologize don&#8217;t really help to accomplish anything.<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>In this article<\/p>\n<p>Be the first to know and subscribe for real-time news email updates on these topics<\/p>\n<p>    Subscribe to news alerts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":",Late in the NASCAR Cup Series race at Sonoma Raceway, Josh Berry got into Carson Hocevar in Turn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,1389,10737,806,805,803,804,10736,85],"class_list":["post-9004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dover","tag-dover-international-speedway","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-nascar-cup","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}