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Carson Hocevar is NASCAR’s disruptive new driver — and one of its biggest fans

LEBANON, Tenn. — The tall guy in the red Dale Earnhardt Jr. T-shirt blends in with other NASCAR fans mingling near pit road at Nashville Superspeedway, soaking in the atmosphere before a Truck Series race on a summer Friday night. Energy drink in hand, he looks out at the grandstands and soon-to-be noisy racetrack and […]

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Energy drink in hand, he looks out at the grandstands and soon-to-be noisy racetrack and smiles.

“I’ve always dreamt of being able to watch every race,” he says. “Now I’m here.”

He senses someone in his peripheral vision and turns to see another NASCAR fan, just like him, seemingly waiting for a word.

“Sorry, how are you?” the tall guy says. “You could have interrupted!”

“Can I get a picture, Carson?” the fan says.

Meet Carson Hocevar, the disruptive 22-year-old who isn’t just one of NASCAR’s fastest-rising young stars — but also one of its biggest fans.

On this night, 48 hours before Hocevar finishes second in the NASCAR Cup Series race at the same track, the Spire Motorsports driver is following his normal routine: Making the trek across the infield grass to ascend into the grandstands to watch the lower-tier Truck and Xfinity races with the fans.

Though NASCAR is more accessible for its diehards than other big-league sports, there’s a barrier between the stands and the garage area — both physically and figuratively. Hocevar regularly breaks the fourth wall, so to speak, by choosing to watch races from a familiar viewpoint that reminds him of growing up. He’s as comfortable sitting among the race fans as he is in the Cup Series garage — if not more so, given how many drivers and teams he’s irked with his aggressive racing style.

From his perch in the bleachers, Carson Hocevar watches last weekend’s Truck Series race at Nashville. “I’ve always dreamt of being able to watch every race,” he says. “Now I’m here.” (Jeff Gluck / The Athletic)

We’ll get to that in a bit, but for now, there’s no sign of any animosity toward Hocevar as he trudges across Nashville’s thick infield grass and climbs the stairs into the grandstands. People already in their seats for the Truck race begin to notice and call out — something he said has become increasingly common of late.

“Hocevarrrrrr!” one older, long-haired man yells, raising his arms in a triumphant welcome.

Some fans leap from their seats and rush toward the aisle to offer a fist bump or handshake. A few ask for selfies. Others just clap and cheer at the site of a recognizable Cup driver among them.

“How cool is that?” a father says to his two young sons as Hocevar passes by.

When Hocevar reaches the concourse, his progress is slowed by people wanting to chat. A jam-up forms as one teen bro-hugs Hocevar like they’re old pals and asks for a signature. Another accuses Hocevar of wrecking his car several times on iRacing, an online simulator game; Hocevar asks the fan his name and acts like it rings a bell.

After the fan is out of earshot, Hocevar is asked if he really recognized the name or was just being polite.

“Oh yeah,” Hocevar says. “And I did wreck him.”

Carson Hocevar greets fans at Texas Motor Speedway in May. “He hasn’t changed at all,” longtime friend Christian Pitman says. “That’s why people like him.” (Austin McAfee / Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Hocevar makes his way to Row 29 of Section 131, where a few Nashville-based friends are awaiting him. One of them is Christian Pitman, who used to race with Hocevar while growing up and has remained close through his buddy’s burgeoning NASCAR career.

“He hasn’t changed at all,” Pitman says. “I think that’s why people like him.”

He’s not exactly incognito, and so a steady stream of fans comes over to Hocevar’s row. At first, it’s actually unclear whether these are more of Hocevar’s Nashville friends or simply strangers approaching.

That’s because each time someone arrives in the aisle, Hocevar pops up from his seat like he’s been expecting them.

“Watching from the stands?” one fan says after getting his picture with Hocevar. “Don’t blame ya!”

But seriously, why would he do this? Why would a full-time NASCAR Cup Series driver watch races with fans, even if he is one himself?

“Why not?” he counters, puzzled. “I love it.”

That love doesn’t go both ways for Hocevar in the NASCAR world. While he possesses the type of personality many fans claim to want — he alternates between charming, brash, opinionated and startlingly frank — he has also angered many of the drivers he grew up watching (and thus their supporters, too).

Hocevar’s reputation is constantly a trending topic. He has crashed drivers on accident, on purpose and every shade of gray in between — often unapologetically.

Among his critics: former Cup champions Kyle Busch and Ryan Blaney, Hocevar’s own mentor Ross Chastain, and now Ricky Stenhouse Jr., who Hocevar sent crashing in Nashville on Sunday night.

While there’s a recurring narrative that accompanies fast young drivers who burst onto the NASCAR scene — it’s happened to the likes of Brad Keselowski, Joey Logano, Busch, Chastain and many more — it’s also clear Hocevar has lost the benefit of the doubt.

“A lot of people were saying, ‘Well, is it just because he’s a young, aggressive driver?’” Blaney said in March. “He’s being a young, reckless guy in a lot of situations, and there’s a big, big difference.”

But in some ways this is all part of the plan for Hocevar, who carefully studied how drivers raced and reacted to various situations while growing up. He’s seen an inordinate amount of interviews and knows what resonated with him as a fan — and what he disliked. He’s determined to be the kind of driver he would have wanted to root for as a kid.

Not that he’s very far removed from actually being one.

Carson Hocevar celebrates a Truck Series win at Kansas in May. Now full-time in the Cup Series, he tied a career-best with a second-place finish last weekend in Nashville. (Chris Graythen / Getty Images)

With NASCAR racing at his home track of Michigan International Speedway this weekend, Hocevar briefly returned to his childhood home in Portage — a small city one hour south of Grand Rapids where, until recently, he was more well known for appearing in an oft-played commercial for his dad’s business (Scott’s Sports Cards, Coins and Jewelry) as a 9-year-old.

“Scott’s has a nice selection of Citizen Watches, all priced 50 percent off for the holidays!” a cheerful Hocevar tells the camera as “Jingle Bells” plays. “Happy Holidays!”

As recently as a few years ago, people would stop him in the grocery store not to chat about his up-and-coming NASCAR career — but to remark how much he’d grown up since seeing him in the ad. People in the Portage community were used to seeing Hocevar ride his bike all over town when he wasn’t off racing.

And when Hocevar returns to his family home, his bedroom has been largely untouched. The shelves still have autographed die-cast cars from the likes of Earnhardt Jr. and Kyle Busch — who has called Hocevar “a f— d— bag” and vowed to “wreck his ass” — and a signed Matt Kenseth photo.

“The only thing that’s different is I don’t have the Dale Jr. comforter on my bed anymore,” he says.

He’s retained an extensive collection of die-cast cars (it numbers in the hundreds and he’ll never get rid of it, he says), which includes the custom-made versions he decorated himself. Hocevar and his friends made stop-motion animation videos with the die-cast cars because “we were too old to play with them but too young to just let them sit there.”

One of those friends, Pitman, sits in the Nashville stands with his longtime buddy and pulls up an old Instagram page from an iRacing team Hocevar created as a kid. Hocevar has since lost the login for the chr_racing page, so it lives on as a time capsule from an 11-year-old’s summer hobby (“Instagram used to let you sign up with an unverified email address, and I have no idea what it was,” he says).

But it doesn’t bother him; Hocevar embraces his NASCAR fandom rather than running from it. In fact, he happily recounts one of his favorite memories as a 9-year-old: Having his name on the winning car in one of NASCAR YouTuber Eric Estepp’s stop-motion races.

“Winner: CarsonH814,” the video announced.

“I was so excited, I went to school the next day and told everyone I won,” Hocevar says.

Growing up in the meme-ified world of Gen Z has created a unique bridge from Hocevar to NASCAR’s younger audience, a demographic with which the sanctioning body has struggled to connect.

Hocevar not only streams his iRacing on Twitch, but he also did so in the middle of this year’s Daytona 500 when there was a rain delay (Spire has a sim rig setup in its hauler for Hocevar to use).

Earlier this spring, he bought a 1997 pickup truck off Facebook Marketplace just because it was decorated like Dale Earnhardt Sr.’s No. 3 GM Goodwrench ride — and now uses it as his daily driver.

He has his TV set to autoplay YouTube videos continuously and allows the algorithm to pick old NASCAR content for him. To demonstrate, he pulls out his phone: It’s showing the 2009 Pepsi 500 at California Speedway, which has just begun playing after an old postrace show from an October event at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

But Hocevar’s Very Online persona has also lent itself to another unique skill: Translating the digital world into real-life applications. NASCAR teams use high-tech driver-in-the-loop simulators to gather engineering feedback and influence vehicle setups; Hocevar performed so well in that area that it essentially earned him a chance with Spire.

“We popped him in the sim, and our sim game improved like 1,000 percent,” Spire co-owner Jeff Dickerson says, standing on pit road before the Nashville race. “We were like, ‘This is probably the direction NASCAR is going.’ All he does is watch racing, go to races, go on iRacing, go in the sim. What I liked about him is he’s just so fast, and this is all he’s thinking about, always.”

While Dickerson says he wishes Hocevar would have used a bit better judgment in some of the situations that have resulted in controversy, their daily texts typically don’t include any scolding. Dickerson doesn’t want to do anything to slow Hocevar down or “cage him,” he says; after all, Hocevar is on the cusp of winning races for a team that has never had a driver finish in the top 20 of the season point standings.

“I am not going to be like, ‘Hey, you’d better mind your P’s and Q’s,’” Dickerson says. “My thing is just: If you accidentally get run into, don’t act like a jackass. As a team owner, I just want him to show up to meetings on time, participate in competition meetings like the student of the game that he is, and to race his teammates with respect.”

Carson Hocevar talks with Fox Sports during last month’s All-Star weekend. Fan-friendly, outspoken, and often controversial on the track, he’s emerged as a must-watch driver. (James Gilbert / Getty Images)

Hocevar has repeatedly claimed in interviews that he doesn’t study data and drives off instinct, using his creativity to find lines others do not. And while the latter part of that statement may be true, Dickerson says the first part is total bunk and is tired of getting asked about it.

“He’s lying to you!” Dickerson says. “He is always studying! I live it every day. He’s constantly sending me things he’s looking at. He’s just at an age where it’s cool to say, ‘See? I don’t study! I just feel the air! I’m the next reincarnation of Dale Sr., don’t you guys get it?’ No, jacka—. It’s not instinct. He’s not God’s gift to race car driving. He works at this as much as anybody.”

To prove his point, Dickerson calls Hocevar over from a conversation with more fans.

“You keep telling people you don’t study s— or look at s—!” Dickerson says.

“What? I just say I don’t look at SMT data,” Hocevar says with the tone of a scolded teenager, referring to the sport’s real-time telemetry data.

“You look at everything, shut up,” Dickerson says.

“I know,” Hocevar replies with a shrug.

But even if Hocevar works harder than he’s willing to let on, he’s still somewhat of a racing savant. Back up in the stands, as the NASCAR Trucks circle around the track, he immediately diagnoses the things drivers should be doing differently and yells his feedback to no one in particular, drowned by the roar of the engines.

He wears no headset or ear plugs and rests his worn black Nikes — the only pair of casual shoes he owns — on the bleacher seat in front of him while holding a phone with Cup Series trophy wallpaper (“Motivation, man” he explains.) When drivers from Spire and Niece Motorsports (which gave Hocevar his break in the Truck Series) run afoul of his expectations, Hocevar unlocks the phone and furiously types feedback texts to friends on both teams in hopes of reaching the drivers.

“Message delivered,” one responds.

Other times, Hocevar simply leaps from his seat and makes exaggerated gestures at the drivers like any number of other fans in the stands — sometimes exasperated when they don’t listen to him, sometimes celebratory when they make a good move. And he has reason to celebrate at the end of the night because Spire teammate Rajah Caruth ends up in victory lane — as does Hocevar, being interviewed on TV in his red Dale Jr. shirt after congratulating Caruth.

Two nights later, other fans have taken his place in Row 29 of Section 131 and get to witness the full Hocevar experience: Being lightning quick en route to a second-place finish, but making more on-track enemies in the process.

Controversy aside, it’s a good night. For a kid who was once thrilled just to watch NASCAR Cup Series races, actually winning one no longer feels like such a distant dream.

(Illustration: Eamonn Dalton / The Athletic; Sean Gardner, James Gilbert/Getty Images)

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New Jersey Lottery SpeedTour Comes to Millville NJ

On August 1 – 3, 2025 one of the oldest organizations in vintage racing, and the only one with a national presence, the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA) is coming to the New Jersey Motorsports Park in Millville, NJ, with the New Jersey Lottery SpeedTour. Formula Cars from Around the World to Compete Head-to-Head In […]

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Formula Cars from Around the World to Compete Head-to-Head

In addition to an array of vintage cars, the event will feature racing from Formula Race Promotions, Formula 4 United States Championship (F4 U.S.) and Formula Regional America Championship (FR Americas), which are both led by Race Director, Scott Goodyear—the former racecar driver and television personality—who will also be on site!

The New Jersey Lottery SpeedTour features F4 U.S. Championships and FR Americas wheel-to-wheel racing! Both series are the first two steps on the Road to F1. New Jersey Motorsports Park’s 14-turn Thunderbolt Raceway is the 16th stop out of 22 stops on the national tour. When the lights go out at NJMP, five countries and 14 states across the USA will be represented across the two championships.

Spectators can get their tickets now at njmp.com. If you can’t make it in person, the races will be shown live, or tape delayed, on SPEED SPORT 1. SPEED SPORT 1 is a FAST channel — Free, Ad-Supported Streaming Television network. It is available on mainstream platforms with reach exceeding 200 million monthly active users, including Amazon Prime, Roku Channel, PlutoTV, SlingTV and more.

This event is in partnership with the Sportscar Vintage Racing Association (SVRA). SVRA is committed to presenting the best possible experience for competitors and fans. From 200 MPH Indy and Formula 1 cars to classic Jaguars and Porsches, SVRA events provide a rolling history of motorsport where the cars are the stars.

Car Shows and More Off-Track Fun!

Car enthusiasts will also enjoy the display of classic, vintage and exotic cars at the Hagerty Cars and Caffeine car show right in the Thunderbolt paddock. Spectators who are looking to get behind the wheel themselves are welcome to book an Arrive and Drive go-karting session at NJMP’s outdoor go-karting track! Compete with friends and family to see who can get in the most laps in NJMP’s Sodi gas-powered go-karts.

All guests are welcome to enjoy lunch and dinner at the full-service restaurant and pub, the Finish Line Pub, located right in the center of the facility. Here families can enjoy picnic games like cornhole, horseshoes, and pickleball (bring your own paddle and ball). And when it gets too hot, those with a ticket are eligible for a pool pass to NJMP’s outdoor pool!

Get your tickets now for this thrilling family weekend event at njmp.com!

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NASCAR on TV This Weekend: Sonoma 2025

Here is the TV schedule for this weekend as the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series take on the Sonoma Raceway road course in Northern California. Photo by Meg Oliphant/Getty Images NASCAR TV schedule for Friday, July 11 NASCAR Xfinity Series practice/qualifying at Sonoma Raceway NASCAR TV schedule for Saturday, July 12 NASCAR Cup Series practice/qualifying […]

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Here is the TV schedule for this weekend as the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series take on the Sonoma Raceway road course in Northern California.

NASCAR TV schedule for Friday, July 11

NASCAR Xfinity Series practice/qualifying at Sonoma Raceway

NASCAR TV schedule for Saturday, July 12

NASCAR Cup Series practice/qualifying at Sonoma Raceway

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NASCAR TV schedule for Sunday, July 13

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ARCA West Sonoma Entry List

NASCAR isn’t the only sanctioning body heading to Sonoma Raceway this weekend — the ARCA Menards Series West will also do battle at the track for the General Tire 200. There are 26 cars entered for West’s sixth race of the 2025 season. Eric Nascimento and Nascimento Motorsports are entered in the No. 4 for […]

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NASCAR isn’t the only sanctioning body heading to Sonoma Raceway this weekend — the ARCA Menards Series West will also do battle at the track for the General Tire 200.

There are 26 cars entered for West’s sixth race of the 2025 season.

Eric Nascimento and Nascimento Motorsports are entered in the No. 4 for their first start of the year.

Caleb Shrader returns with Jerry Pitts Racing’s No. 6 for his second appearance of the season.

Corey Day will drive the No. 7 for Spire Motorsports.

1/4 Ley Racing has two cars entered for Sonoma. Jeff Anton is in the No. 8 while owner Dale Quarterley will drive the No. 32.

Davey Magras returns to the series in his self-owned No. 14, his first appearance since 2023.

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Bill McAnally Racing has two cars entered for the first time this season. The team’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series regular Jack Wood is in the No. 16, while Kaulig Racing NASCAR Xfinity Series full-timer (and former BMR driver) Christian Eckes will drive the full-time No. 19.

Kaylee Bryson will make her series debut in Cook Racing Technologies’ No. 17.

Eckes isn’t the only Xfinity regular in the field. William Sawalich will drive Joe Gibbs Racing’s No. 18.

Clark Racing’s No. 23 has Spencer Gallagher in the seat, while Sigma Performance Services’ No. 24 is fielding Tyler Reif.

Venturini Motorsports heads West for this race with a single-car effort, the No. 25, driven by Alon Day.

Ryan Philpott and Rodd Kneeland are back in their self-owned Nos. 52 and 68, respectively, for the first time this year. Kneeland’s No. 68 also ran at Kevin Harvick’s Kern Raceway last month with PJ Pedroncelli.

Nick Joanides makes his first start of the year, returning to Performance P-1 Motorsports’ No. 77.

Naake-Klauer Motorsports heads to the ARCA West track for the first time this season, fielding Will Rodgers in its No. 88. Rodgers will also run the Xfinity event for Cope Family Racing.

The General Tire 200 is set for Friday, July 11, at 6:30 p.m. ET. FloRacing is handling the broadcast.

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Mayor Brandon Johnson discusses 4th of July violence, future of NASCAR Chicago

CHICAGO (WLS) — Mayor Brandon Johnson says he is open to bringing NASCAR back to Chicago. ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watch At a news conference with reporters on Tuesday he weighed in on the street race and holiday weekend violence. “I don’t know how those guys and women drive those […]

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CHICAGO (WLS) — Mayor Brandon Johnson says he is open to bringing NASCAR back to Chicago.

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At a news conference with reporters on Tuesday he weighed in on the street race and holiday weekend violence.

“I don’t know how those guys and women drive those cars in those kind of suits, like, if I had to wear that outfit every single day at work, that would be very difficult,” Johnson said.

He may not have to wear the suit, but Johnson must decide if bringing the street race back to Chicago is worth it.

“The larger question is around, how do neighborhoods across the city benefit from anything that we bring to the City of Chicago,” he said.

While revenue generated from NASCAR is still being added up, the mayor says NASCAR has been supportive of neighborhood programs. However, without getting into specifics, the mayor says everything must be on the table when negotiating with NASCAR.

“Far more people are going to be involved in this process than when it was initially birthed,” he said.

Downtown aldermen are demanding they be part of the conversations with NASCAR.

They say negotiations must include changing the date of the race from 4th of July weekend.

“It’s a heavier burden for our law enforcement, because of so many so much activity that happens in Chicago,” Johnson said.

Despite a long holiday weekend that began with a deadly mass shooting in River North, the mayor says July 4th crime numbers were down compared to years past.

“The decline of violence is a result of the full force of government, working with all entities of government, at every single level of government, and making critical investments, particularly communities that have been starved in decades,” he said.

The mayor said he is worried how those communities will be impacted by President Trump’s big policy bill.

Johnson said his budget team plans to do a complete analysis to figure out the exact impact.

READ ALSO | $10K reward offered for information after 18 shot, 4 killed in River North mass shooting

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DragChamp Jr. Racer Top 10 List – 7/9/25

Ryan Alexander doubles up at the SEJS Brainerd race to lead the DragChamp Jr. Racer Top 10 List presented by Laris Motorsports Insurance. 07/09/25 – Welcome to the DragChamp Jr. Racer Top 10 List presented by Laris Motorsports Insurance. Each week we rank the best Jr. racers across the country based on their weekly performances. […]

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Ryan Alexander doubles up at the SEJS Brainerd race to lead the DragChamp Jr. Racer Top 10 List presented by Laris Motorsports Insurance.

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1 – Ryan Alexander

Ryan Alexander takes the #1 spot on this week’s Top 10 list after winning twice at the Southeast Junior Series race at Brainerd Motorsports Park. He kicked off the weekend by winning the Fireworks Shootout Race, then went on to claim both the 12 & Up age group bonus and the overall $10,000 Main Event victory.

2 – Luke Hutchinson

Luke Hutchinson secures the #2 spot on this week’s list after carrying two entries to the 6-9 Age Group final round, earning both the win and runner-up at the Southeast Junior Series event at Brainerd Motorsports Park. He also was the last man standing in the 6-9 age group during the $10K race and advanced to the final five in the $10K main event.

3 – Gage Blair

Gage Blair had a standout weekend at Ethridge Motorsports Park, going undefeated and winning both days in the Junior Dragster class. He didn’t lose a single round all weekend!

4 – Brooklynn Collins

After a win and a runner-up finish at Gainesville, Brooklynn Collins extended her streak by doubling up at South Georgia Motorsports Park.

5 – Bentlee Baehr

Bentlee Baehr rounds out the top 5 of this week’s Top 10 list after sweeping the beginner class this past weekend at the Dragway 42 points race.

6 – Cameron Davis

Cameron Davis lands the #6 spot on this week’s Top 10 list after doubling up in the Jr. Novice class at the Triple 7K race at Grove Creek Raceway.

7 – Alexandra “Alakazamdra” Elyea

Alexandra ‘Alakazamdra’ Elyea delivered an impressive performance at Walla Walla Dragstrip, sweeping the weekend in Junior Street. She kicked things off on Friday by reaching the semifinals in her Junior Dragster during the big money Gamblers Race. Competing in two classes all weekend, she continued going rounds in her dragster and capped it off by winning Junior Street both days driving a Sunbelt Service truck.

8 – Avery Bolding

Avery Bolding claims the #8 spot on this week’s Top 10 list after securing a win and three semi-final finishes at the Southeast Junior Series event in Brainerd.
On Friday, she advanced to the semi-finals in both the $3,000-to-win Gamblers Race and the Outlaw 330 race. She followed that up on Saturday by winning the $3,000-to-win 12–17 Age Group Race and making it down to the final three in the $10,000 Main Event.

9 – Chloe Pass

Chloe Pass had a fantastic weekend at Alabama International Dragway, winning the IHRA Ironman race on Friday night. She kept the momentum going on Saturday, reaching the sem-finals.

10 – Brayden Hearn

Brayden Hearn earns a spot on this week’s top 10 list after scoring two runner-up finishes at World Wide Technology Raceway.

10 – Riley Sherbondy

Riley Sherbondy rounds out this week’s top 10 list after securing the Junior Dragster win on Saturday at the TB Promotions $100K event. This marks her second TB Promotions victory and the second time she’s taken home a Louisville Slugger.

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NASCAR confirms penalty situation after incident-filled Chicago Street Race

The penalty report from NASCAR for the weekend at Chicago is out. No one was penalized as a result of infractions the governing body picked up. The organization had made it clear it was looking into a few incidents on the track, but it apparently found no cause to issue penalties. Among those incidents was […]

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The penalty report from NASCAR for the weekend at Chicago is out. No one was penalized as a result of infractions the governing body picked up.

The organization had made it clear it was looking into a few incidents on the track, but it apparently found no cause to issue penalties. Among those incidents was contact between Ross Chastain and Joey Logano.

Logano called on NASCAR to fine Chastain for the contact after Chastain reportedly admitted on pit road that he had intentionally wrecked Logano. The two got caught up in traffic in the middle of the race, with Chastain initially taking contact into a tire barrier.

Whatever the case, Chastain seemed to think Logano was at fault for that contact. He came after Logano and spun him in the next section of the track.

Reporters had a chance to catch up with Logano after that incident, and he was blunt. To him, there was no gray area surrounding the wreck and whether it was intentional from Chastain.

“Do I think so? Yes, he admitted he wrecked me on purpose,” Logano told FOX Sports’ Bob Pockrass. “He admitted it. Which means he should get fined if he admittedly wrecked someone on purpose. That’s not OK.”

Logano has had more than one run-in with Chastain this NASCAR Cup Series season. That’s part of the reason he was so heated after the race.

“Typical Ross,” Logano said. “He just sees red and does dumb stuff. That’s all. That’s twice this year on road courses at the end of these things I’ve been cost by Ross. I’m just over it.”

Other incidents on the track included some back-and-forth contact between Bubba Wallace and Alex Bowman. Wallace was attempting to fend off a pass by Bowman, who had fresher tires late in the race.

After making contact through several turns, eventually Bowman got the better of Wallace and turned the fellow NASCAR driver, taking him out of the race. There were no fireworks after the race, though, as the two met very briefly on pit road before Wallace headed out for the day.

And now we know NASCAR has issued no penalties as a result of the weekend at Chicago. So it’s on to Sonoma.

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