{"id":871839,"date":"2026-08-26T07:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T07:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/871839\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T07:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T07:14:11","slug":"carson-hocevar-slumping-at-the-wrong-time-in-nascars-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/871839\/","title":{"rendered":"Carson Hocevar slumping at the wrong time in NASCAR&#8217;s season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a time when Carson Hocevar was fifth in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nascar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASCAR<\/a> Cup Series standings and viewed as a dark-horse championship contender.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Those days were less than three weeks ago, prior to the green flag in the Aug. 9 race at Iowa Speedway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the three races since, Hocevar has slipped from fifth to 11th in points. Mechanical issues at Iowa resulted in a 31st-place finish. A blown engine at Richmond relegated him to 37th. He finished 19th at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Sunday \u2014 a fantastic result considering he spun on the pace laps and was backwards twice during the race, including a particularly egregious incident that saw him get frustrated with Connor Zilisch and turn himself across Zilisch&#8217;s nose.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was a microcosm of the chaotic nature that has made Hocevar a favorite of fans and a frustrating figure to his fellow drivers.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a time when Carson Hocevar was fifth in the NASCAR Cup Series standings and viewed as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":871840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-871839","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\/871839","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=871839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/871840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}