Carson Hocevar is a man of many hats. Don’t believe me? Google “Carson Hocevar hats,” and you’ll be presented with a wide range of pre-race hat choices the 20-year-old racer has shown off since making his NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series debut in 2019. There’s Hocevar in a white cowboy hat.
Losing sucks — plain and simple. Losing week after week for a year or more can take a toll, but the wait can be worth it. That was obvious the night of May 29, on the frontstretch of Charlotte Motor Speedway, as a friendly crowd cheered for the winner of…
For the first time in 27 years, NASCAR Cup Series cars raced competitive laps around North Wilkesboro Speedway’s .625-mile racing surface Saturday on the eve of the All-Star Race.
Steve Swift’s history with North Wilkesboro Speedway began years ago, sometime after the North Carolina short track was bought and left for dead by Speedway Motorsports. Swift, who initially joined the company in 2004 as a senior construction manager, was part of the process that led to Bristol (Tenn.) Motor…
On Monday following the final race of the 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series season, Justin Allgaier walked into JR Motorsports’ headquarters in Mooresville, N.C., expecting a typical “what we needed to do in the offseason” meeting. Instead, he walked into a “blindside meeting.” JR Motorsports was shaking things ups, more so…
After a violent last-lap wreck and a long wait near the pit entrance, it was Austin Hill who came away with the win in Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series opener at Daytona Int'l Speedway.
Ryan Preece was going to be late. Due to his busy schedule leading up to the NASCAR Cup Series season, Preece wasn’t going to make it home in time for a scheduled Zoom interview. Knowing this, Preece took a “hard right” on a Charlotte-area highway. Sitting in his vehicle on…
David Wilson isn’t afraid to admit it. When he made the career move 33 years ago that led him to his current role, “on paper it was ridiculous.” It was 1989. At the time, Wilson had spent the previous 18 months as a mechanical engineering supervisor at a Johnson &…
