Following the Iowa Corn 350 there was a contentious moment on the track between Carson Hocevar and Zane Smith\u2019s crew chief. Ryan Bergenty, Smith\u2019s crew chief, interrupted an interview Hocevar was doing with some harsh words.<\/p>\n
The interaction was caught on camera by journalist Stephen Stumpf, who was conducting the interview. And the less than flattering things Bergenty had to say quickly made headlines<\/a>.<\/p>\n Now, a NASCAR spotter is calling for punishment. Brett Griffin, who has spotted for various teams over the years and has occasionally appeared on the Door Bumper Clear podcast, took to Twitter to express his disappointment in the interaction.<\/p>\n \u201cCrew member is way outta bounds if it\u2019s not the crew chief,\u201d Griffin tweeted<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019ve been there. Glad the driver didn\u2019t open his motorhome door when I was banging on it. Fine his ass.\u201d<\/p>\n The initial reporting by Stumpf simply identified the aggressor in the confrontation as a crew member for Zane Smith\u2019s team. Later, he was identified as Bergenty.<\/p>\n On the video of the interview<\/a>, Bergenty can be heard initiating the conversation with Carson Hocevar. He wasn\u2019t overly demonstrative, but he was forceful.<\/p>\n \u201cHey, when are you going to learn to f****** drive, dude?\u201d Bergenty said, per Stumpf. \u201cI mean you wiped us the f*** out.\u201d<\/p>\n Stumpf, who was conducting the interview with Carson Hocevar, would add more context, as well. He noted that Bergenty questioned Hocevar\u2019s driving ability. \u201cOur car is fucking wrecked because you drive like a f****** r****d,\u201d Bergenty said, per Stumpf. <\/p>\n Hocevar had an eventful day on the track, as Smith\u2019s team was not the only one to take issue with Hocevar. Shane van Gisbergen also voiced his displeasure<\/a> after an incident.<\/p>\n Van Gisbergen (inside) was driving alongside Joey Logano (outside) when Hocevar flew to the inside of the track, pushing them three-wide. Van Gisbergen made contact with Logano, but luckily neither of the two spun. Still, it left van Gisbergen fuming, at least by his standards.<\/p>\n \u201cHey, go apologize to the 22,\u201d van Gisbergen told his crew chief. \u201cThat wanker in the 77 just shoved it three-wide.\u201d<\/p>\n For his part, Carson Hocevar seemed unapologetic after the race. He posted to his Instagram account with the song \u201cIDGAF\u201d by Drake. In the post was a picture of a ticket counter, a reference to another journalist\u2019s critical tweet after the race. You can find more on that here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the Iowa Corn 350 there was a contentious moment on the track between Carson Hocevar and Zane…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-45149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45149","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=45149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}