{"id":500726,"date":"2026-02-26T11:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/500726\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T11:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:52:07","slug":"dale-earnhardt-jr-claims-carson-hocevar-had-opportunity-to-avoid-spinning-joey-logano-late-at-atlanta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/500726\/","title":{"rendered":"Dale Earnhardt Jr. claims Carson Hocevar had opportunity to avoid spinning Joey Logano late at Atlanta"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dale Earnhardt Jr. shared his thoughts on what happened with Carson Hocevar and Joey Logano during the NASCAR Cup Series race at Atlanta. On this week\u2019s Dale Jr. Download,<\/a> Earnhardt believes that Hocevar could have avoided spinning Logano late in the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cHocevar is coming up the track. I know that the 22 (Logano) is shading down,\u201d Dale Earnhardt Jr. said. \u201cOne\u2019s shading down, one\u2019s coming up, but Hocevar can see him. In the driver code that I kind of know is if I\u2019m on the inside and I see you off the right front of my car, it\u2019s kind of my job not to run into you. 22 was coming down a little bit, but Hocevar, in my opinion, had an opportunity to not run into him. <\/p>\n

\u201cHocevar, in my opinion, was coming up the racetrack, driving up the track across lanes to get there. I would say it was like 70-30 Hocevar-Logano.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carson Hocevar is known for his aggressive racing style. But when the incident with Joey Logano happened, he went on his radio and issued an apology. <\/p>\n

\u201cI didn\u2019t mean to do that. \u2026 Apologies,\u201d Hocevar said, per Jeff Gluck of The Athletic.<\/a> \u201c\u2026Tiniest contact, just my fault. I think he got tight. Completely on me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The contact with Hocevar led to Logano earning a P18 finish at Atlanta.<\/a> Hocevar, on the other hand, earned a P4 finish and came close to earning his first win in the Cup Series after being on the front row in double overtime.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I mean, I choked,\u201d Hocevar said after the race, per Nate Ryan of NBC Sports.<\/a> \u201cFor our luck last year, well, I was like, if we just raced until the Busch Series length races, like stage two basically, we would be really good. Then it kind of goes to hell in a handbasket. Now I guess we\u2019re really, really good this year at just getting to the white flag leading. Yeah, I went over to [Chase] Briscoe and just kind of laughed. I thought it was the right spot, being on top and everything. Then I look in my mirror. I\u2019m like, \u2018All right, perfect, he\u2019s coming to me.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThen they start going left, and I was confused for a second. Then I looked to my left and realized it was another Toyota. I\u2019m like, he\u2019s not going to push me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dale Earnhardt Jr. shared his thoughts on what happened with Carson Hocevar and Joey Logano during the NASCAR…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,26749,14056,5793,634,82],"class_list":["post-500726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carson-hocevar","tag-dale-earnhardt-jr","tag-joey-logano","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500726","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=500726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}