NASCAR's new bad boy now has a win. What's next for Carson Hocevar?
Carson Hocevar is undecided on whether he will celebrate future NASCAR Cup wins the way he did at Talladega.
Ask Carson Hocevar if he plans to ever perform the epic celebration he staged at the NASCAR Talladega race on April 26, and he will tell you it's not a matter of if, but when. In other words, the confident and borderline cocky, 23-year-old Spire Motorsports driver from Portage, Michigan, with his first win coming at Talladega, has arrived. And NASCAR could be in store for the type of entertaining and unapologetic personality it has lacked since the days of Dale Earnhardt Sr.
, Richard Petty, Darrell Waltrip, and Jeff Gordon. But is Hocevar, who was already known as "Hurricane Hocevar" before his first win, ready to step into the bad boy role? CARSON HOCEVAR WINS AT TALLADEGA: Carson Hocevar breaks through with 1st career win, more NASCAR Talladega winners, losers "It would be nice for the sport's sake if we had that and I was per se it," Hocevar said.
"I don't know if that's how people see me. I just know what I have and what I want to do. I'm just enjoying this right now.
" Several drivers came to victory lane to congratulate Hocevar, catching him off guard, as he admits he has no close friends on the NASCAR circuit. "It meant a lot; it was a surprise for me how many either came up beside me before they went to pit road or stopped me on the way to victory lane or came in during victory lane," Hocevar said. "There were also a lot of texts from them that I wasn't expecting.