{"id":560337,"date":"2026-03-25T19:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560337\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T19:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T19:04:11","slug":"carson-hocevar-given-brilliant-advice-by-nascar-legend-before-spectacular-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560337\/","title":{"rendered":"Carson Hocevar given brilliant advice by NASCAR legend before ‘spectacular’ drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carson Hocevar<\/a> has revealed some advice he received from a NASCAR<\/a> legend before last Sunday’s race at Darlington.<\/p>\n

The young Spire Motorsports<\/a> star has been criticized for his aggressive style thus far in his career, but the 2026 season appears to have marked a turning point in his public perception.<\/p>\n

NASCAR legends like Kyle Petty and Dale Earnhardt Jr. have started to go to bat for the 23-year-old, with outspoken former racer Mark Martin now getting involved \u2013 and offering some advice from his own long career.<\/p>\n

‘Hurricane’ Hocevar raced from the back of the field to a strong fourth place at Darlington on Sunday, and revealed on a Twitch stream in the following week that he’d been given one pithy tip from the Cup Series great.<\/p>\n

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NASCAR legend hails ‘spectacular’ drive<\/p>\n

The advice, as Hocevar relayed it, was simple: \u201cHe told me drive like Mark Martin until 25 to go, at 25 to go drive like the Hurricane.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martin, who had served as honorary pace car driver for the race, quoted a post on Twitter<\/a> about the advice and added: \u201cHe did exactly that too. Spectacular @CarsonHocevar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Martin wasn’t the only one lauding Hocevar’s drive after the race, with Petty saying on NASCAR’s Inside the Race show: \u201cHocevar is going to have to be contended with at some point in time. I said it when everyone was whining about him a few weeks ago. Whine all you want to.<\/p>\n

“He\u2019s going to come in here and he\u2019s going to take your seconds, he\u2019s going to take your thirds, he\u2019s going to take your fourths and fifths, and he\u2019s going to win some races. He did it in this Earnhardt-esque car, which was just flipping fantastic.”<\/p>\n

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