{"id":144101,"date":"2025-09-09T13:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/144101\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T13:00:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T13:00:06","slug":"carson-hocevar-in-full-support-of-nascar-relaxing-limit-on-cup-drivers-racing-in-the-lower-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/144101\/","title":{"rendered":"Carson Hocevar In Full Support of NASCAR Relaxing Limit on Cup Drivers Racing in the Lower Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-1\" class=\"data-event\">NASCAR is reportedly mulling a move to allow Cup Series drivers to participate more in the Xfinity Series and the Craftsman Truck Series. And several top-tier drivers have been expressing their excitement about it. <\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-2\" class=\"data-event\">Kyle Busch had said last week that he judges whether a driver in the lower tiers is ready for the Cup Series by assessing how they fare against the premier tier drivers. This comment was pointed out to Spire Motorsports driver Carson Hocevar at the World Wide Technology Raceway last weekend.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-3\" class=\"data-event\">Hocevar was asked if he ever graded himself against the Cup Series drivers when they came out to race against him in the Craftsman Truck Series.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-4\" class=\"data-event\">\u201cYeah, I mean, I think any time you\u2019re racing a Cup guy in Trucks or Xfinity, you know, ultimately their owners are watching that and that\u2019s how they really grade it,\u201d Hocevar replied.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-5\" class=\"data-event\">The 22-year-old, who joined Spire as a full-time driver in the 2024 season, is clear that winning a race with Cup Series drivers on the grid was always better than winning with none of them on it. He used his journey to illustrate it.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-6\" class=\"data-event\">\u201cI\u2019m here because I got to go to a Cup field and race against them and got thrown to the deep end, and I didn\u2019t sink right away,\u201d Hocevar <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/8TCNitPZmxc?t=753\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-utm_source=\"article\" data-utm_medium=\"content\" data-utm_campaign=\"link\">said<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-7\" class=\"data-event\">\u201cSo yeah, I think that\u2019s the biggest thing. If I never got that shot, I would just be hoping Cup guys would come run Trucks and maybe I can outrun them,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-8\" class=\"data-event\">The<a href=\"https:\/\/thesportsrush.com\/tag\/carson-hocevar\/\" data-utm_source=\"article\" data-utm_medium=\"content\" data-utm_campaign=\"link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> No. 77 Chevy driver<\/a> added that he had won the pole at Sonoma Raceway as a Truck Series driver in 2022. The achievement was all the more special because there were four Cup Series drivers right behind him. Such days boost the confidence of youngsters in the lower tiers and with good reason.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-9\" class=\"data-event\">Former driver <a href=\"https:\/\/thesportsrush.com\/nascar-news-kenny-wallace-in-full-support-of-nascar-letting-cup-drivers-run-more-races-in-the-lower-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-utm_source=\"article\" data-utm_medium=\"content\" data-utm_campaign=\"link\">Kenny Wallace supports<\/a> the move as well. He felt bad for drivers because they couldn\u2019t race against the big dogs. \u201cThey don\u2019t have an opportunity now to outrun the best,\u201d he said in a YouTube video. <\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-10\" class=\"data-event\">\u201cThey don\u2019t have an opportunity to outrun the Cup drivers. So, although it seemed like this grand idea, what it\u2019s done now is it has dumbed down the Xfinity Series and the Truck Series,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"content\" data-variant=\"p\" id=\"article-content-block-11\" class=\"data-event\">With many advantages, NASCAR allowing Cup Series drivers to race more in the lower tiers will prove beneficial for both the drivers and the sport\u2019s future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR is reportedly mulling a move to allow Cup Series drivers to participate more in the Xfinity Series&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[4565,56345,2841,425,28872,3514,99],"class_list":["post-144101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-carson-hocevar","tag-kenny-wallace","tag-kyle-busch","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-truck-series","tag-nascar-xfinity-series","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}