Just before the start of Sunday’s NASCAR Cup race at Watkins Glen, NBC Sports displayed video, showing an apparent confrontation between Brad Keselowski and Carson Hocevar after qualifying on Saturday.<\/p>\n
According to NBC, Hocevar thought Keselowski had impeded him during his qualifying run, so he decided to return the favor.<\/p>\n
A frustrated Keselowski can be seen on video climbing from his No. 6 RFK Racing Ford, and then sprinting down pit road to the No. 77 stall. Some words were exchanged with Hocevar and team behind the wall before Keselowski marched away.<\/p>\n
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According to NBC, Keselowski claims he was trying to get out of the way while Hocevar believes he was impeded by the RFK driver. As a result, he purposely got in Keselowski’s way during his own flying lap. Keselowski is apparently “over it” now, and just wants to focus on the race ahead.<\/p>\n
The Spire Motorsports team asserts that Keselowski impeded them first, and that the actions taken by Hocevar were “not even close” to what was done to them, initially.<\/p>\n
Hocevar qualified eighth for Sunday’s race, while Keselowski ended up 16th on the grid.<\/p>\n
Hocevar has angered several rivals this year, and he’s been in the middle of various controversies. He had a very public multi-week feud with Ricky Stenhouse Jr., who threatened to beat him up after an incident in Mexico City.<\/a> Just one week ago, he got into Zane Smith, who tried and failed to wreck him later in the race. During post-race interviews with the media, Hocevar was confronted by Smith’s crew chief,\u00a0Ryan Bergenty.<\/a><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n In this article<\/p>\n Be the first to know and subscribe for real-time news email updates on these topics<\/p>\n Subscribe to news alerts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just before the start of Sunday’s NASCAR Cup race at Watkins Glen, NBC Sports displayed video, showing an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[425,6327,99,53147,31895,43951],"class_list":["post-74569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup","tag-sports","tag-video-surfaces-of-pit-lane-confrontation-between-keselowski-and-hocevar","tag-watkins-glen","tag-watkins-glen-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74569","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=74569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}