{"id":940456,"date":"2026-10-20T20:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T20:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940456\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T20:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T20:30:14","slug":"jimmie-johnson-is-watching-nascars-carson-hocevar-controversy-with-popcorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940456\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmie Johnson Is Watching NASCAR\u2019s Carson Hocevar Controversy With Popcorn"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jimmie Johnson<\/a> sees Carson Hocevar<\/a> from two sides. The seven-time NASCAR<\/a> Cup Series champion is the majority owner of Legacy Motor Club<\/a>. He says Hocevar has had a hand in wrecking eight or 10 of his team\u2019s cars this year.<\/p>\n

Johnson talked about Hocevar on this week\u2019s episode of Door Bumper Clear<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Johnson won five straight Cup titles from 2006 to 2010 with Hendrick Motorsports<\/a>. The hosts asked whether Hocevar would have lasted in the era when Johnson was winning titles.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s tough,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cI think it\u2019s unfair to place people in different generations.\u201d<\/p>\n

He then turned to what the Spire Motorsports<\/a> driver has cost his own team.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know that I think we counted up like eight or ten of our cars that he\u2019s torn up this year directly or indirectly. So don\u2019t like that piece of it,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n

Legacy fields Toyotas in the Cup Series, while Hocevar drives the No. 77 Chevrolet for Spire. Johnson said his view changes when he thinks about the sport as a whole.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut you know, I wear a different hat now and look at the sport, and eyeballs, and I can\u2019t tell how many times I\u2019ve been in places where I don\u2019t expect to hear the NASCAR conversation and I hear Carson\u2019s name,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n

He said drivers from earlier generations would have handled the situation themselves.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s up to the guys on track to manage it. I mean, our sport is self-regulating, and if we do look at previous generations, guys wouldn\u2019t put up with that crap,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n

Johnson said other drivers have let it build, but he is enjoying the show.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean they wouldn\u2019t, and a lot of guys have allowed this to happen and have allowed these situations, and allowed them to continue to develop,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cSo, you know, I\u2019m eating the popcorn and watching. I\u2019m watching because it\u2019s entertaining.\u201d<\/p>\n

The episode was released the day after another eventful race for Hocevar. At Phoenix, Zane Smith<\/a> hit Hocevar on the cooldown lap after Hocevar was pushed into him late in the race. MotorBiscuit covered Smith\u2019s post-race comments about Hocevar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hocevar and Ryan Blaney<\/a> also fought on pit road after the Bristol<\/a> race in September. Brad Keselowski<\/a> has accused Hocevar of causing \u201cintentional accidents\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hocevar started 28th at Phoenix and finished 12th.<\/p>\n

He won his first Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway<\/a> in April. The Cup Series returns there on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jimmie Johnson sees Carson Hocevar from two sides. The seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion is the majority owner…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,26749,19115,19116,634,82],"class_list":["post-940456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carson-hocevar","tag-jimmie-johnson","tag-legacy-motor-club","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940456","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=940456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}