Tab Boyd, who spotted for Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and criticized Mexico City, has been replaced for the upcoming NASCAR Cup Series race by Clayton Hughes.
FOX Sports’ Bob Pockrass reports, “Some spotter changes, according to rosters, for Pocono: Cup: Stenhouse-Clayton Hughes spotting (was Tab Boyd).”
Some spotter changes, according to rosters, for Pocono:
TJ Majors (medical) is back this week for Keselowski, Kvapil and Mills
Cup: Stenhouse-Clayton Hughes spotting (was Tab Boyd)
Trucks: Ruggiero-Freddie Kraft spotting (was Frank Kimmel II)
— Bob Pockrass (@bobpockrass) June 19, 2025
No explanation for why Boyd was replaced has been given. It’s also unclear if he’s been replaced permanently or just for the Pocono race.
However, Boyd did publicly criticize Mexico City on Saturday night before the Cup Series. He wrote in a now-deleted post on X, “I’m ready to go home, screw this place, people can talk it up all they want….. can’t even walk out the front door of the hotel without getting hustled and money snatched….in less than 5 minutes. Good area my ass….”
For anyone looking for the exact comments from Tab Boyd that it seems may have got him fired. pic.twitter.com/vesBwD6eeO
— Justin Boyles (@Jboyles_12) June 18, 2025
Carson Hocevar was punished by his Spire Motorsports in consultation with NASCAR after he criticized Mexico City ahead of the Cup race as well. Spire fined Hocevar $50,000 and mandated the fine go to the Mexican Red Cross, Un Kilo de Ayuda, and United Way Mexico. Additionally, the team mandated that Hocevar attend “cultural-sensitivity and bias-awareness training.”
The team also specifically noted they consulted with NASCAR sharing, “Spire Motorsports has informed NASCAR of these penalties, and NASCAR has confirmed that our team-imposed discipline satisfies the sanctioning body’s requirements.”
— Spire Motorsports (@SpireMotorsport) June 17, 2025
Hocevar was punished after he described Mexico City as a “s**thole” on a Twitch stream, “If the travel was better, if getting here was easier, if you felt safer getting to and from everywhere, if it wasn’t such a s**thole, if the track limits were a little bit better enforced, if it was going to be a little bit better of a race, and [if it didn’t] feel so locked down like you can’t leave anywhere, it’d be a great experience. It’d be an absolute great experience. If you take all those out, it’s unbelievable. It’s great.”
for the people defending this dude, here’s the video, so…
estos días habia visto fans de nascar racistas (como el que escribió este tweet, y en las respuestas) pero, los pilotos también? terriblehttps://t.co/YH1HKf9bVN https://t.co/dnxc2c0aYu pic.twitter.com/NnEMtf84c9
— ⋆montse⋆ #RUSSONELLI 🥇🥉🩵 (@checoflan) June 15, 2025
What do you make of Tab Boyd getting replaced for the upcoming NASCAR Cup Series race at Pocono?
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