Carson Hocevar left Martinsville with another rough race, but a hit Chili’s livery. The Spire Motorsports driver finished 17th in Sunday’s Cook Out 400 after a late crash with Bubba Wallace.
The incident came on a Lap 324 restart in Turns 3 and 4, when Wallace drove into the back of Hocevar’s No. 77 Chili’s Ride the ‘Dente Chevrolet, then hit him again after traffic stacked up ahead. That second hit turned Hocevar around and triggered a multicar crash that collected 12 cars. Hocevar kept the car running and finished inside the top-20 while Wallace’s race ended in 36th.
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Following the race, Hocevar shared the viral Sabrina Carpenter ‘cameraman’ trend on Instagram with his Ride the ‘Dente paint scheme at Martinsville.
“17th after getting spun hahah,” Carson Hocevar wrote.
The clip showed the multiple Grammy winner’s SNL 2025 moment, where she said, “I think I might need to get someone arrested for being too hot, you’re under arrest camera man,” and then cuts to Hocevar’s Chili’s paint scheme. The post has generated more than 35k views at the time of writing.
Meanwhile, after Martinsville, Hocevar is 15th in the Cup standings with 171 points. His first six points races of 2026 showed the same range. He has two top-5 finishes so far this seasion at Atlanta and Darlington.
Carson Hocevar’s Martinsville incident gets reaction from former NASCAR driver
Carson Hocevar was caught in a big crash at Martinsville after contact with Bubba Wallace. After the race, Wallace said that the crash was not intentional. He explained that he misjudged the corner and did not expect the situation to unfold that way. He admitted that he was upset about Hocevar going three-wide before the incident, but still said he did not mean to spin him.
Former NASCAR Cup driver Kyle Petty shared his view on the crash on NASCAR Inside The Race. He said that Wallace might have been carrying frustration from a tough race, and he called Hocevar an easy target for fans and drivers.
“Internally, you race your teammates, I don’t give a rat’s rear end what anybody says, you race your teammates, you want to be top of the heap, King of the hill in your own team, and I think there’s some frustration and some pent-up anger in that when you get into it. … Hocevar is an easy target right now. You can almost wreck Hocevar, and everybody says, ‘Well, that’s just Hocevar. He had that one coming,'” Kyle Petty said (30:50 onawrds).
Petty also added that Hocevar did not deserve that kind of hit just for going three-wide into Turn 1 at Martinsville.
Edited by Hitesh Nigam
