Did Carson Hocevar Ask Dale Earnhardt Jr. Before Confirming Paint Scheme Honoring His Father?
Carson Hocevar (L) and Dale Earnhardt Jr. (R) | Credits- Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images Carson Hocevar keeps getting cast in the same mold as Dale Earnhardt, with veteran names like Dale Earnhardt Jr.
and Kyle Petty fanning the talk. And this weekend, the Spire Motorsports driver is taking a step ahead. At Darlington Raceway, he will lean into that history, heading out with a throwback scheme from Dale Earnhardt’s 1981 Wrangler era, with the blue-and-yellow look back in play.
But in the middle of all that, a step fell through the cracks. Hocevar admitted that he never gave Dale Jr. a heads-up or took his permission.
He had planned to do that, but could not. When asked during media day if he had looped in the Earnhardt camp (Dale Jr. or his sister Kelley Earnhardt Miller) or planned to keep it under wraps, the Spire Motorsports driver admitted the ball was in his court, and he dropped it.
He meant to send a text, get a read on the scheme, maybe hear what Junior thought. Instead, the calendar ran away from him. As he put it, “Yeah, it was kind of a surprise to me a little bit on some of the things.