The truce between Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Carson Hocevar is over after Hocevar spun out Stenhouse with 10 laps left in the Cup Series race at Mexico City.
Hocevar misjudged the braking going into the stadium portion of the track and plowed into the rear of Stenhouse spinning him out.
At the conclusion of the race Stenhouse confronted Hocevar while he was still in his car. Stenhouse stuck his entire head and arms into the car and shared some words for Hocevar. He said, “I’m going to beat your ass. You’re a lap down. You’ve got nothing to do. Why you run right into me? It’s the second time.”
Hocevar responded saying, “I’m sorry. I was locked up.” Stenhouse retorted, “I don’t give a damn.”
“I f***ed up,” Hocevar added.
Stenhouse wasn’t hearing any of it and reiterated his threat, “I will beat your ass when we get back to the States.”
“I’m going to beat your ass!”
– @StenhouseJr tells @CarsonHocevar
You can hear Hocevar respond, “I f*cked up.”#NASCAR. pic.twitter.com/NHOLC4batS
— Noah Lewis (@Noah_Lewis1) June 15, 2025
Stenhouse Jr.’s threat comes in the wake of a previous threat against Hocevar after he was wrecked by him during the Cup race at Nashville earlier in the month.
Immediately after exiting the infield care center following that wreck, Stenhouse informed NASCAR media that he planed to have a conversation with Hocevar, “Oh, I will. I will.”
Then when asked if it would be after the race, he replied, “No, that costs too much money.”
Ricky Stenhouse says he was dive bombed over and over
“Not real thrilled with that exit.”
He will talk to Carson Hocevar about it.
Tonight?
“Thats too expensive.” pic.twitter.com/kcBXT2A9nI
— Matt Weaver (@MattWeaverRA) June 2, 2025
During an appearance on The Motor Stardom Show following the race, Stenhouse joked that his post-race comments about not confronting Hocevar following the race because it would be “too expensive” was because it was “not going to be for reconstruction on my face.”
However, after speaking to Hocevar, Stenhouse informed members of the press that he believed Hocevar did not intentionally wreck him and that he would not be retaliating against him.
Stenhouse shared, “I was able to see what his thought process was during the whole incident. I don’t think he crashed me on purpose, but I do think he was super impatient. You know, he had only been behind me for two laps. It’s not like I was holding him up. I held Preece up for 30 laps before that and then Preece got a run on the outside and he passed me. His thought process was he had a little run down the back and he thought he could overdrive the corner and get to my inside, which he never did. And he said that he waited just a hair too long to decide that he wasn’t going to get there and by the time he did that he ran into the back of us.”
“I told him I thought that was pretty impatient,” Stenhouse continued. “But like I said, we’ve never had any issues. He’s had plenty of issues with other people. So I told him that if it becomes a routine or if it happens again like that — I didn’t feel like that was a thing that really needed to happen that early in the stage, that early in the race especially, obviously as fast as his car was. I told him, ‘As fast as your cars have been, you don’t want to keep making people mad.’ The amount of texts I got from competitors and other people in the garage to confront him like I did Kyle or crash him on purpose was a lot. It was kind of shocking. So I just told him that.”
Stenhouse then indicated he does not plan to retaliate moving forward, “If we get in a pissing match and I crash him this weekend, we go back and forth, that does none of us good. We’re still only six points out of the playoffs and that’s what we’re focused on at Hyak and trying to get back in to the playoffs.”
“I Don’t Think He [@CarsonHocevar] Crashed Me on Purpose”- @StenhouseJr comments on his incident at Nashville. #NASCAR pic.twitter.com/uAUw9mGxJn
— Frontstretch (@Frontstretch) June 7, 2025
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