{"id":940876,"date":"2026-10-21T04:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T04:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940876\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T04:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T04:30:09","slug":"nascar-made-correct-decision-with-zane-smith-punishment-after-carson-hocevar-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/940876\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR made correct decision with Zane Smith punishment after Carson Hocevar incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nascar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">NASCAR<\/a> is at its best when the drivers are allowed to have a &#8220;boys have it&#8221; approach to handling conflict, but there are still lines that drawn in the sand that should not be crossed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> One of those is hitting a fellow driver at speed under caution, which is exactly what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nascar\/players\/zane_smith\/927992\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Zane Smith<\/a> did to Carson Hocevar at the conclusion of Sunday&#8217;s Freeway Insurance 500 at Phoenix Raceway.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>NASCAR fined Smith $50,000 on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>NASCAR penalizes Zane Smith after Phoenix<\/p>\n<p>Smith has a history with Hocevar. The two tangled at Chicagoland on July 5 and were given a talking-to in the NASCAR hauler the following week.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR is at its best when the drivers are allowed to have a &#8220;boys have it&#8221; approach to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-940876","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\/940876","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=940876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}