Carson Hocevar shared his thought process on what led to him wrecking Ricky Stenhouse Jr. during the NASCAR Cup Series race at Nashville this past weekend.

Hocevar spun Stenhouse Jr. during the second stage of the race while the two were battling for 17th.

During an interview with SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Hocevar said, “Ultimately, you don’t want to wreck somebody’s race car. You don’t want to wreck anybody because-. [Spire Motorsports co-owner] Jeff Dickerson tells me all the time, ‘If you are explaining, you are losing.’ And with us talking about this or us having to have these conversations, or me talking to Ricky, or just whatever. Instead of talking about how we can be one spot better, we’re talking about this. We’re making ourselves slower. Ultimately, I didn’t want to wreck him.”

“I went in and I thought maybe I could get there or I was going to get there and get a little bit more space. And for his arc, I thought he was going to go around the middle with [Ty Gibbs] running the bottom. And thought I could get in a little deeper and have his spotter call inside and he just came all the way down and I landed right into his left rear, backed him into the fence. I don’t want to do it and I feel bad for it. Obviously, somebody wrecked their racecar,” he said.

“I think the biggest thing is the story we want is the fact that we ran second with the 77 car.” he added. “I don’t think anybody has remembered Ryan Blaney has won the race because all we’re talking about is this so far. So that’s the biggest thing, we don’t want to slow ourselves down by having these clouds kind of over our head just as a team. And we don’t want to put any more targets on my back because I’ve created the world I live in with just the reputation. I understand that. So you don’t want to do anything more to put a bigger target on your back, I guess, per se.”

Later in the interview, Hocevar did reveal he had been in communication with Stenhouse, “We texted a little bit back and forth and I think we’ll still talk and everything. You see each other 38 weekends a year. You’re going to run into each other. Not literally, hopefully. But run into each other in person. I think it’s better if you’re going to have that talk or conservation or whatever it is to do it before you get to the track and everybody gets in race mode and everything.”

“He had obviously wanted to have that conversation so I just texted him to reach out or whatever, but, yeah, we’ll probably have that talk or whatever and see how that goes,” he concluded.

According to Kenny Wallace, who had a conversation with Stenhouse, Hocevar and Stenhouse did indeed have a conversation and Wallace shared his belief that Stenhouse Jr. does not plan to retaliate against Hocevar. Wallace explained, “Jeff Dickerson, the owner of Spire, most likely called his driver and said, ‘Listen, I own these race cars and these son of a b****es are $500,000 each. And right now Ricky’s going to wreck your ass and you’re going to be okay with it, but I’m not because I’m going to have to fix it. And fixing these cars is no joke now. So while you two create your pissing match, you’re going to cost me $500,000 ’cause you going to be cool. Oh, look at me, I’m cool because I didn’t apologize.”

Wallace added, “I’m thinking Jeff Dickerson said, ‘Get your ass on that phone and call, Ricky, and put out this damn…”

During an appearance on The Motor Stardom Show earlier this week Stenhouse did declare, “that if nothing is done about it or definitely confronted nothing will change for sure.”

What do you make of Hocevar’s thinking?

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