Carson Hocevar took control of the Dale Jr. Download this week and shared his criticisms of Tyler Reddick for allowing Corey Heim to get past him in the closing laps of the NASCAR Cup Series race at Naval Base Coronado.

With three laps left in the race, Heim made a move underneath Reddick in turn 3 and was able to get past him heading into turn 5. Reddick attempted a crossover and pushed Heim wide going through turn 5. He then appeared to intentionally slow to allow Heim to get back past him. He then began his own hunt for the front, but was unfortunately cut short when he suffered a flat left front tire a lap later.

On the Dale Jr. Download, Hocevar discussed Reddick’s slowing to let Heim get back in front of him saying, “I get it 100%. I understand. Maybe I’m not the perfect, you know, cleanliness driver to put my opinion on this, but I’m thinking from the fan perspective, if you are a race fan, does this not devalue how much the drivers want to win?”

“One of my friends made a good point, it would be different if Reddick was the guy running him down, the faster car running him down, got to him, and moved him by accident and was like, ‘Oh, I want to do it right.’ Not the guy holding on,” he said. “[Reddick] clearly felt like he had to make that move to crossover to hold him up. You watch Heim get back out in front. Reddick gives him six car lengths. You pretty much turn your TV off, or you know like, ‘Oh it’s over.'”

“But also too, you’re racing for points for the regular season champ,” he added. “You didn’t spin him out. Like if he spun him out and like half spun him and waited on him a little bit, but stayed in front of him, I’d be like, ‘All right. Little respect there. All right. Whatever.’ But you gave him six car lengths. You’re slower than him and you gave up any shot at the win. You’re racing for the regular season championship and too the contact, did it blow his tire?”

“I feel like NASCAR struggles from the prestige side, the credibility side. This is a massive race. Call it a one-and-done, crown jewelish, just bragging rights a little bit. Throw the regular season points out the window, you pretty much showed [that] winning’s not that important to the fan perspective. Like the fan perspective would go, ‘What the-‘ Like if I was a fan, I’d be like, ‘What the [expletive]?’

From there, Hocevar shared that even if Reddick did not slow down to let Heim by, he likely would have gotten past him anyways, “He made an aggressive move and got loose and barely touched. I don’t think Reddick clears him. Even if he did some sort of a normal corner, I think Corey still would have been there. Corey would have outbroke him and then you race. Or too, maybe if you’re going to let him go, let him go in the next corner to make it look better for TV standards.”

He then shared an analogy, “Imagine Michael [Jordan] doing a dirty block and then getting the ball and being like, ‘Ah [crap], I didn’t mean to do that. Hold on. Try again. Real quick. Hold on. Here you go. Here’s the ball. … It’s the commercial. ‘I touched the ball, coach. I touched the ball.’ ‘Damn it, Alex, it’s the championship game.’ ‘No, good sportsmanship. Pass it on.’ That’s what it is.”

“I feel like racing for the win, in this scenario and everything that Reddick kinda has on the line, it’s just so devaluing of the sport or everything. And that’s now the narrative. You could have had this awesome battle for the win that Heim does, but now it’s just like, ‘Well, Reddick let him go and that’s cool.'”

Interestingly enough, Hocevar was accused of making similar moves just two weeks ago at the end of the race at Michigan. Bubba Wallace said in a post-race interview that Hocevar pointed not only him, but Kyle Larson and Erik Jones by at the end of the race.

Wallace said, “He’s playing the game. The point by, letting me and Larson by and the 43 by was nice, but doesn’t ease the pain.

On the final run of the race at Michigan, Bubba Wallace would get by Hocevar earlier, but Hocevar was able to pass him back with 11 laps left to move into the second position. Then with 6 laps to go Erik Jones had gotten by Wallace and pulled to the back of Hocevar. Hocevar can clearly bee seen pointing out the window indicating he’s going to allow Jones to to go by him on the bottom. Jones dove to the bottom and easily passed him.

Wallace would pass Hocever a couple laps later to move back into third. Larson would pass him on the final lap of the race and Hocevar would end up finishing in fifth.

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