Carson Hocevar
Hocevar at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park in 2022
BornCarson Scott Hocevar
(2003-01-28) January 28, 2003 (age 20)
Portage, Michigan, U.S.
Achievements2020 Winchester 400 Winner
2020 Redbud 400 Winner
2020, 2021 Money in the Bank 150 Winner
NASCAR Cup Series career
9 races run over 1 year
Car no., teamNo. 77 (Spire Motorsports)
2023 position48th
Best finish48th (2023)
First race2023 Enjoy Illinois 300 (Gateway)
Last race2023 NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race (Phoenix)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 0 0
NASCAR Xfinity Series career
5 races run over 1 year
2023 position83rd
Best finish83rd (2023)
First race2023 Pit Boss 250 (Austin)
Last race2023 Cabo Wabo 250 (Michigan)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 2 0
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career
77 races run over 5 years
2023 position3rd
Best finish3rd (2023)
First race2019 Eldora Dirt Derby (Eldora)
Last race2023 Craftsman 150 (Phoenix)
First win2023 SpeedyCash.com 250 (Texas)
Last win2023 Baptist Health Cancer Care 200 (Homestead)
Wins Top tens Poles
4 33 1
ARCA Menards Series career
16 races run over 3 years
Best finish12th (2019)
First race2018 Toledo ARCA 200 (Toledo)
Last race2021 Clean Harbors 100 at The Glen (Watkins Glen)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 13 2
ARCA Menards Series West career
1 race run over 1 year
Best finish44th (2022)
First race2022 Desert Diamond Casino West Valley 100 (Phoenix)
Wins Top tens Poles
0 0 0
Statistics current as of November 3, 2023.

Carson Scott Hocevar (born January 28, 2003) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 77 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 for Spire Motorsports. He is a former member of the Drivers Edge Development driver development system.

Racing career

Early career

Hocevar began competing in quarter midgets at the age of 7, winning 79 feature races and 15 national championships.[1] He started racing at Berlin Raceway in 2015 as a 12 year old and won the track's Outlaw Late Model championship.[1] He won his first Super Late Model race at the track in 2016, but NASCAR stopped all drivers under 14 from competing at sanctioned tracks.[1] Hocevar returned in 2017 and won the track's Super Late Model championship.[1]

ARCA Menards Series

Hocevar standing next to his No. 28 car in 2019 before the race at Madison

Hocevar competed in 11 ARCA Menards Series races between 2018 and 2019,[2] with 9 top ten finishes[3] and 2 pole positions.[4]

In 2019, he joined the Driver's Edge Development Program.[5]

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series

Hocevar made his NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series debut in the 2019 Eldora Dirt Derby driving the No. 3 Chevrolet Silverado for Jordan Anderson Racing.[6][1][7] He qualified for the main event by finishing third in the third qualifying race.[8] He returned to the series in November at the Lucas Oil 150, driving a No. 56 for JAR in a partnership with Hill Motorsports.[9]

On December 20, 2019, Hocevar joined Niece Motorsports for a nine-race schedule in 2020.[10]

On September 24, 2020, Hocevar and Niece announced a full-season schedule in 2021.[11] During the season, Hocevar would have a very successful rookie season nearly winning multiple races. He finished second at Charlotte and fourth at Las Vegas. He re-signed with Niece in 2022 and led the most laps of the Spring Vegas race until he was turned with 36 to go.

On June 4, 2022, Hocevar broke his right tibia at the ankle during the final lap of the Gateway race when his truck was t-boned by Tyler Hill.[12] He underwent surgery prior to the Sonoma race.[13] Hocevar took the pole position before wrecking in turn 10.[14] On lap 11, he was relieved by Daniel Suárez, who took the No. 42 to a sixth-place finish.[15]

Hocevar started the 2023 season with a 12th-place finish at Daytona. He scored his first career win at Texas in double-overtime after race leader Nick Sanchez made contact with Zane Smith on the final lap and Hocevar unintentionally spun Sanchez from behind.[16] Hocevar also scored wins at Nashville and Richmond.[17][18] He won at Homestead to make the Championship 4.[19] Hocevar finished 29th at Phoenix after Corey Heim slammed him on the turn 4 wall in retaliation for spinning him earlier in the race; he also finished fourth in the final points standings.[20] After NASCAR penalized Heim 25 driver points for intentionally wrecking him, Hocevar was credited with a third-place points finish.

NASCAR Xfinity Series

Hocevar takes his damaged car out of the race at Nashville Superspeedway

On March 7, 2023, Spire Motorsports announced that they will expand their racing operations to the NASCAR Xfinity Series, with Hocevar running six races in their No. 77 car, making his debut in the series at Circuit of the Americas in the No. 07 for SS-Green Light Racing before suffering a brake failure leading to a 36th-place finish.[21] He was initially on the entry list for the race at Dover Motor Speedway, but was withdrawn due to the weather providing the risk of qualifying being canceled. His debut with the team was thus scheduled for the next race at Darlington Raceway. He would finish 6th at Darlington and 8th at Charlotte Motor Speedway but would DNF at Nashville Superspeedway.

NASCAR Cup Series

2023: Part-time

Hocevar at Martinsville Speedway

On May 30, 2023, Hocevar was named the driver of the No. 7 Spire Motorsports Camaro ZL1 for the Enjoy Illinois 300 at Gateway Motorsports Park after Spire's full-time driver Corey LaJoie would fill in the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevy while HMS driver Chase Elliott served a one race suspension.[22] He finished in 36th place after suffering a brake rotor explosion going into turn 1 in the second stage on lap 91 while running in 16th place. Hocevar drove the Legacy Motor Club No. 42 to a 17th place finish at Darlington.[23] He then scored a career-best 11th place finish at the Bristol night race.[24][25] On October 4, Hocevar was signed to drive the No. 42 for the final four races.[26]

2024: Spire Motorsports

On October 10, 2023, Hocevar announced on NASCAR Race Hub that he will bypass the Xfinity Series to join Spire Motorsports in the Cup Series full-time for the 2024 season, driving the No. 77 car under a multi-year deal.[27][28]

Other racing

Hocevar has also run in Midgets, Micro Sprints, and Dirt Super Late Models on a part-time basis in addition to his full-time rides since 2015.

Personal life

As a kid, Hocevar, while racing Quarter Midgets, was around many notable drivers due to his dad Scott who was a crew member as well as a sponsor for various local teams, and through this Carson was mentored heavily by Bryan Clauson, who Scott Hocevar was a crew member for.[29] Later he would also be mentored by Johnny Benson who was sponsored by Carson's dad which let Carson have the opportunity to turn wrenches for him on Benson's racecars and later also drive for him in his Outlaw Late Model program.[30]

Hocevar is the son of Scott and Amy Hocevar. He graduated from Gull Lake High School in 2021.

Hocevar is in a relationship with Super Late Model driver Peyton Lanphear. In May 2022, Lanphear was diagnosed with stage 4 Hodgkin lymphoma; she would go into remission in December of that year.[31]

Motorsports career results

Stock car career summary

Season Series Team Races Wins Top 5 Top 10 Points Position
2018 ARCA Racing Series KBR Development 3 0 2 2 645 31st
2019 NASCAR Truck Series Jordan Anderson Racing 2 0 0 0 29 62nd
ARCA Menards Series KBR Development 12 0 4 10 2320 12th
2020 NASCAR Truck Series Niece Motorsports 7 0 0 0 125 37th
2021 NASCAR Truck Series Niece Motorsports 22 0 3 8 2204 10th
ARCA Menards Series 1 0 1 1 40 72nd
2022 NASCAR Truck Series Niece Motorsports 23 0 7 12 2186 10th
ARCA Menards Series West 1 0 0 0 44 65th
2023 NASCAR Cup Series Spire Motorsports 1 0 0 0 0 NC†
Legacy Motor Club 8 0 0 0
NASCAR Xfinity Series SS-Green Light Racing 1 0 0 0 0 NC†
Spire Motorsports 4 0 0 2
NASCAR Truck Series Niece Motorsports 23 4 11 13 4008 3rd
2024 NASCAR Cup Series Spire Motorsports

† As Hocevar was running for points in the Truck series, he was ineligible for championship points in the Cup and Xfinity series.

NASCAR

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Cup Series

NASCAR Cup Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 NCSC Pts Ref
2023 Spire Motorsports 7 Chevy DAY CAL LVS PHO ATL COA RCH BRD MAR TAL DOV KAN DAR CLT GTW
36 		SON NSH CSC ATL NHA POC RCH MCH IRC GLN DAY 48th 01 [32]
Legacy Motor Club 42 Chevy DAR
17 		KAN
20 		BRI
11 		TEX
16 		TAL
35 		ROV LVS
36 		HOM MAR
31 		PHO
19
2024 Spire Motorsports 77 Chevy DAY ATL LVS PHO BRI COA RCH MAR TEX TAL DOV KAN DAR CLT GTW SON IOW NHA NSH CSC POC IND RCH MCH DAY DAR ATL GLN BRI KAN TAL ROV LVS HOM MAR PHO
Daytona 500
Year Team Manufacturer Start Finish
2024 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet

Xfinity Series

NASCAR Xfinity Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 NXSC Pts Ref
2023 SS-Green Light Racing 07 Chevy DAY CAL LVS PHO ATL COA
38 		RCH MAR TAL DOV 83rd 01 [33]
Spire Motorsports 77 Chevy DAR
6 		CLT
8 		PIR SON NSH
36 		CSC ATL NHA POC ROA MCH
32 		IRC GLN DAY DAR KAN BRI TEX ROV LVS HOM MAR PHO

Craftsman Truck Series

NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 NCTC Pts Ref
2019 Jordan Anderson Racing 3 Chevy DAY ATL LVS MAR TEX DOV KAN CLT TEX IOW GTW CHI KEN POC ELD
25 		MCH BRI MSP LVS TAL MAR 62nd 29 [34]
56 PHO
23 		HOM
2020 Niece Motorsports 40 Chevy DAY LVS CLT ATL HOM POC KEN TEX KAN KAN MCH DRC
28 		DOV
12 		GTW
15 		DAR RCH
22 		BRI
17 		LVS TAL KAN TEX 37th 125 [35]
42 MAR
13 		PHO
32
2021 DAY
5 		DRC
14 		LVS
24 		ATL
12 		BRD
21 		RCH
12 		KAN
23 		DAR
3 		COA
7 		CLT
2 		TEX
11 		NSH
16 		POC
13 		KNX
16 		GLN
10 		GTW
8 		DAR
11 		BRI
6 		LVS
22 		TAL
25 		MAR
12 		PHO
9 		10th 2204 [36]
2022 DAY
9 		LVS
13 		ATL
27 		COA
8 		MAR
17 		BRD
2 		DAR
2 		KAN
15 		TEX
4 		CLT
16* 		GTW
24 		SON
6 		KNX
35* 		NSH
3 		MOH
3 		POC
5 		IRP
21 		RCH
10 		KAN
2 		BRI
19 		TAL
28 		HOM
12 		PHO
10 		10th 2186 [37]
2023 DAY
12 		LVS
7 		ATL
31 		COA
34 		TEX
1 		BRD
17 		MAR
34 		KAN
31 		DAR
5 		NWS
4 		CLT
4 		GTW
4 		NSH
1 		MOH
12 		POC
11 		RCH
1 		IRP
4 		MLW
2 		KAN
6 		BRI
4 		TAL
11 		HOM
1 		PHO
29 		3rd 4008 [38]

* Season still in progress
1 Ineligible for series points

ARCA Menards Series

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

ARCA Menards Series results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 AMSC Pts Ref
2018 KBR Development 35 Chevy DAY NSH SLM TAL TOL
11 		CLT POC MCH MAD GTW CHI IOW ELK BLN
4 		POC ISF DSF IRP
5 		SLM KAN 31st 645 [39]
2019 28 DAY FIF
17 		SLM
3 		TAL NSH
4 		TOL
6 		CLT POC MCH MAD
6 		GTW
5 		CHI ELK
6 		IOW
4 		POC ISF
8 		DSF
15 		SLM
7 		IRP
9 		KAN 12th 2320 [40]
2021 Niece Motorsports 50 Chevy DAY PHO TAL KAN TOL CLT MOH POC ELK BLN IOW WIN GLN
4 		MCH ISF MLW DSF BRI SLM KAN 72nd 40 [41]

ARCA Menards Series West

ARCA Menards Series West results
Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 AMSWC Pts Ref
2022 Niece Motorsports 40 Chevy PHO IRW KCR PIR SON IRW EVG PIR AAS LVS PHO
29 		44th 65 [42]

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