Carson Hocevar took the blame for his fine at Kansas Speedway and will pay the $50,000 out of his own pocket.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Sunday in the Bank Of America Roval 400, Hocevar was fighting to crack the top 10 with eight laps to go when the Spire Motorsports star spun out. He was left stranded with multiple flats while the caution flag waved, as his car was stalled in third gear. Hocevar attempted to fire it up and put it back in neutral in order to be towed.<\/p>\n
Ultimately, Shane van Gisbergen went on to win a dramatic race<\/a>. However, Hocevar was left frustrated after his crash was deemed his fault due to the spin, resulting in a substantial fine<\/a> from NASCAR<\/a>.<\/p>\n NASCAR released a statement that read: \u201cAfter safety personnel had arrived at the crash scene, officials indicated that Hocevar revved and spun his tires in an attempt to rejoin the field while those safety workers attended to his car.\u201d<\/p>\n Hocevar\u2019s actions were deemed a violation of NASCAR\u2019s Member Conduct, resulting in a $50,000 fine. The 22-year-old ended up finishing four laps down in 29th \u2014 16 spots lower than he had been at the time of his spin.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ultimately, Hocevar blames himself. He acknowledged that the fine represents a learning curve for both himself and the team.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI fired it up just to throw it into neutral,\u201d Hocevar said. \u201cIt\u2019s sometimes hard to get these things into neutral, so I fired it up. Honestly, I didn\u2019t know it spun the tires. Obviously, there\u2019s a tow truck in front of me, so I\u2019m not going anywhere.<\/p>\n \u201cI was trying to go someplace earlier but the tires were off the ground and they just spin. But they judge based off of actions and visibility and not intent, right? The tires spun, black and white, so next time I might just have them rock the car to throw me in neutral.<\/p>\n \u201cI was sitting there in third gear doing a burnout so it\u2019s on me not thinking about the tires spinning. It was educational for me. It\u2019s expensive too. It\u2019s educational for our guys too, so I could just say I\u2019m stuck in second and go from there.\u201d<\/p>\n Joey Logano<\/a>DON’T MISS<\/p>\n He added: \u201cNASCAR doesn\u2019t have the intent. They can\u2019t know the plan and story behind everything and judge everything, and sometimes they have to call it the way they see it.\u201d<\/p>\n When asked who covers the fine whether it\u2019s the driver or Spire Motorsports, Hocevar was clear: \u201cI spun the tires. It\u2019s me.\u201d<\/p>\n The NASCAR postseason continues with the South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Eight drivers remain in Cup Series championship contention: Chase Elliott<\/a>, Ryan Blaney<\/a>, Kyle Larson<\/a>, Christopher Bell<\/a>, Denny Hamlin<\/a>, William Byron<\/a>, Chase Briscoe, and Joey Logano<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carson Hocevar took the blame for his fine at Kansas Speedway and will pay the $50,000 out of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,26749,3140,73229,2332,634,96391,36547,18143,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-193615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-carson-hocevar","11":"tag-cup-series","12":"tag-kansas-speedway","13":"tag-motorsport-section","14":"tag-nascar","15":"tag-nascar-fine","16":"tag-playoffs","17":"tag-spire-motorsports","18":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}