{"id":496598,"date":"2026-02-24T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/496598\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T16:00:08","slug":"denny-hamlin-calls-out-nascar-world-for-lazy-use-of-phrase-to-excuse-carson-hocevar-after-controversial-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/496598\/","title":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin calls out NASCAR world for lazy use of phrase to excuse Carson Hocevar after controversial moves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carson Hocevar went for it all in Sunday\u2019s NASCAR<\/a> Cup Series race at Atlanta and fell short of securing his first checkered flag. Hocevar saw a hole between Christopher Bell and Bubba Wallace off the first overtime restart. Once he got there, it was gone. Bell ended up in the wall and Hocevar finished fourth.<\/p>\n

It was an aggressive move, for sure. In the eyes of Denny Hamlin, it was a move that never needed to be made. In fact, the \u201che went for it\u201d part of the discussion isn\u2019t something Hamlin is buying.<\/p>\n

\u201cI keep hearing, \u2018Well, he\u2019s going for it. So, if I\u2019m three car lengths behind Carson Hocevar, and I go through the grass into Turn 1, is that just me going for it, or is that me being an idiot? I think we have to stop using the, \u2018He\u2019s just going for it,\u2019\u201d Hamlin said Monday on Actions Detrimental<\/a>. \u201cThere\u2019s a difference, and I certainly feel like there\u2019s better decisions that could be made, but we\u2019re talking about the same things we\u2019ve been saying for a year-and-a-half. I almost hate we\u2019re bringing more attention to it because I think he likes that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Denny Hamlin addresses Carson Hocevar, Riley Herbst comparison<\/p>\n

But what about Riley Herbst\u2018s move the week prior in the Daytona 500? There, Herbst got a run down the frontstretch on the final lap and shot up top to make an attempt to win. Brad Keselowski had a massive run going of his own, and the result was Herbst wrecking himself, Keselowski, and the other cars behind them.<\/p>\n

Hamlin doesn\u2019t see similarities in the incidents. Hocevar\u2019s crossed a line and became reckless, he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cRiley wrecked into a guy that was on his right-rear quarter, where he could not see. Carson could see there was no hole there to be had,\u201d Hamlin said. \u201cRiley is coming to the finish of the Daytona 500 and two cars in front of him are side-by-side. He\u2019s running 5 mph, and he\u2019s just turning right into what he sees is open racetrack. Unfortunately, the 6 [Keselowski] gets there and he makes contact. I think that is vastly different than just bowling through someone that\u2019s right in front of you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hocevar has some stuff to clean up. Just 23, there\u2019s plenty of time for that to happen. Hocevar has the raw speed to win, and it could finally happen this season. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carson Hocevar went for it all in Sunday\u2019s NASCAR Cup Series race at Atlanta and fell short of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-496598","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\/496598","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=496598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}