NASCAR CUP SERIES: AMBETTER HEALTH 400

February 23, 2025

Carson Hocevar

Pit Lane Interview

Q. Carson Hocevar comes home in second place today. Career best finish for you, Carson, but I have to ask you, there was a long line of guys here to talk to you... Ross Chastain, Ryan Blaney. Very aggressive race out there. What did they have to say to you?

CARSON HOCEVAR: I'll just leave those to myself, but first off, apologies to Larson and HMS, Mr. H, everybody. They help us out a lot, and I didn't realize we weren't racing back to the line. The last two nights were kind of that way. I hit the 20 to get him out of the way and fill the middle. A little bit longer, maybe we win the race.

Big thanks to Spire Motorsports, Chevrolet, everybody, Delaware Life. I normally ride in the back and run last, and I tried to get a good, decent finish. For how bad we were at Daytona, I was no riding.

Yeah, I mean, there's some stuff I got to learn and clean up a little bit, but I feel like we put ourselves in the perfect opportunity to try and win a race. I've never had that opportunity really before, especially on a superspeedway.

So just a big day today for everybody at Spire Motorsports. They deserve all the praise. I just get to hold the wheel and run wide open and just try to put myself in a decent spot. Unfortunately it wasn't the best spot, but it was just is one spot short.