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NASCAR\u2019s Carson Hocevar got honest about the multi-car crash during the Kansas race, offering his reaction to the chaotic incident.<\/p>\n
Carson Hocevar delivered his honest feelings about the multi-car crash that marred his NASCAR race in the Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway on Sunday, but Hocevar and Brad Keselowski gave differing explanations Sunday for the Stage 2 wreck that collected six cars at Kansas Speedway.<\/p>\n
The crash blindsided a Chase field where every playoff driver had been running inside the top 13, and it revived questions about a feud that started at Darlington three weeks earlier<\/a>.<\/p>\n The trouble started right after Noah Gragson\u2019s engine let go and brought out the day\u2019s third caution. NASCAR restarted the field with 44 laps left in Stage 2, and Hocevar, running near the front in his No. 77 Chevrolet, got loose almost immediately.<\/p>\n He darted right, made contact, then shot back across the track and collected Bubba Wallace, Ty Gibbs<\/a>, Josh Berry, Erik Jones and Zane Smith.<\/p>\n Carson Hocevar Breaks Down Chaotic Kansas Restart Asked what he saw at the restart and whether he felt contact from behind, Hocevar didn\u2019t point fingers.<\/p>\n \u201cNo, I felt contact from all over, honestly. I don\u2019t know. Everybody was trying to go for the middle because that seems to be the perfect spot. So, yeah, I don\u2019t know if I tried to fill that hole that we were all trying to merge into, but yeah,\u201d Hocevar said, in a video posted<\/a> by NASCAR insider Bob Pockrass.<\/p>\n Hocevar knew his car was finished before the smoke even cleared. <\/p>\n \u201cYeah. Not a lot of fun, Bob,\u201d he said of the wrecked Chevrolet.<\/p>\n Then came the question that mattered most \u2014 did he think Keselowski triggered it? But Hocevar took the high road. <\/p>\n \u201cNo, I don\u2019t think so. No. If anything, I felt like it was just us trying to merge \u2014 whoever was right of me,\u201d Hocevar said.<\/p>\n Hocevar finished 33rd, three laps down. His plan for Las Vegas next weekend, he said, was simple. <\/p>\n \u201cNot get crashed when we\u2019re running fourth. So, not get crashed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Brad Keselowski Responds Amid Kansas Wreck James Small, Chase Briscoe\u2019s crew chief, told Briscoe over the radio that Keselowski got into Hocevar on the restart and knocked the No. 77 loose. USA Network broadcasters Steve Letarte and Jeff Burton raised the same question live from the booth.<\/p>\n Keselowski said he barely realized the No. 77 had wrecked behind him. <\/p>\n \u201cYeah, I know. I gave him a push, and then they started wrecking to my right. I couldn\u2019t tell what happened,\u201d Keselowski said, in a separate video posted by Pockrass<\/a>.<\/p>\n Told that spotter TJ Majors called the move the biggest of the race, Keselowski leaned into it. <\/p>\n \u201cWell, it was. I went from 13th to 10th, or whatever that was. So, we gained a lot of track position there. Unfortunately, lost it back later when we got blocked in on pit road. But I was really pleased with our speed today. We ran really strong,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The contact landed differently given what happened three weeks earlier at Darlington\u2019s Southern 500, where Hocevar spun Keselowski into the wall<\/a>. Keselowski didn\u2019t hide his anger afterward, warning Hocevar that \u201chis day\u2019s coming\u201d and to \u201cwatch out,\u201d according to On3\u2018s Jamie Oakes.<\/p>\n Keselowski finished 12th at Kansas, and Wallace recovered to ninth, according to Jayski\u2019s race results<\/a>.<\/p>\n Kyle Larson took the checkered flag, sweeping both stages and leading 235 of 267 laps before running down Chase Briscoe with seven laps to go, according to the Associated Press<\/a>. Austin Cindric finished second, Denny Hamlin third.<\/p>\n The playoff field moves on to Las Vegas next Sunday, with Darlington and Kansas both still fresh between Hocevar and Keselowski.<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t \n\t\t\tJonathan Vankin<\/a> JONATHAN VANKIN is an award-winning journalist who covers MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL, boxing, golf, and Olympic sports for Heavy.com. He twice won New England Newspaper and Press Association awards for sports feature writing. He was a sports editor and writer at The Daily Yomiuri in Tokyo, Japan, covering the Olympics, pro baseball, boxing, sumo and other sports. 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GettyBrad Keselowski, driver of the #6 Castrol Ford.<\/p>\n
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GettyKyle Larson, driver of the #5 HendrickCars.com Chevrolet, celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Cup Series Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway on September 27, 2026 in Kansas City, Kansas.<\/p>\n![\"\"\/](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790578626_343_ryan-blaney-carson-hocevar-reactions-fight-NASCAR.jpg\")
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