Carson Hocevar
Hocevar atLas Vegas Motor Speedway in 2025
Born	Carson Scott Hocevar (2003-01-28)January 28, 2003 (age 22) Portage, Michigan, U.S.
Height	6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Achievements	2020Winchester 400 Winner 2020Redbud 400 Winner 2020, 2021, 2025Money in the Bank 150 Winner 20252.4 Hours of LeMullets Winner
Awards	2024 NASCAR Cup SeriesRookie of the Year
NASCARCup Series career
72 races run over 3 years
Car no., team	No. 77 (Spire Motorsports)
2025 position	23rd
Best finish	21st (2024)
First race	2023Enjoy Illinois 300 (Gateway)
Last race	2025NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race (Phoenix)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 14 1
NASCARO'Reilly Auto Parts Series career
7 races run over 2 years
2025 position	85th
Best finish	83rd (2023)
First race	2023Pit Boss 250 (COTA)
Last race	2025Hy-Vee Perks 250 (Iowa)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 2 0
NASCARCraftsman Truck Series career
81 races run over 6 years
2025 position	78th
Best finish	3rd (2023)
First race	2019Eldora Dirt Derby (Eldora)
Last race	2025MillerTech Battery 200 (Pocono)
First win	2023SpeedyCash.com 250 (Texas)
Last win	2025Heart of Health Care 200 (Kansas)
Wins Top tens Poles 5 34 1
ARCA Menards Series career
16 races run over 3 years
Best finish	12th (2019)
First race	2018Toledo ARCA 200 (Toledo)
Last race	2021Clean 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 finish	44th (2022)
First race	2022Desert Diamond Casino West Valley 100 (Phoenix)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 0 0
Statistics up to date as of November 6, 2025.

Carson Scott Hocevar (born January 28, 2003) is an American professionalstock car racing driver. He competes full-time in theNASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 77Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 forSpire Motorsports. He has previously competed in theNASCAR Xfinity Series and theNASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. He is a former member of theDrivers Edge Development driver development system.

Hocevar began competing inquarter midgets at the age of seven, winning 79 feature races and fifteen national championships.^[1] He started racing atBerlin Raceway in 2015 as a twelve 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 fourteen from competing at sanctioned tracks.^[1] Hocevar returned in 2017 and won the track's Super Late Model championship.^[1]

Hocevar competed in elevenARCA Menards Series races between 2018 and 2019,^[2] with nine top-ten finishes^[3] and two pole positions.^[4]

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

Hocevar made hisNASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series debut in the2019 Eldora Dirt Derby driving the No. 3Chevrolet Silverado forJordan 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 theLucas Oil 150, driving a No. 56 for JAR in a partnership withHill Motorsports.^[9]

On December 20, 2019, Hocevar joinedNiece 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 righttibia at the ankle during the final lap of theGateway race when his truck was T-boned byTyler Hill.^[12] He underwent surgery prior to theSonoma race.^[13] Hocevar took the pole position before wrecking in turn 10.^[14] On lap eleven, he was relieved byDaniel Suárez, who took the No. 42 to a sixth-place finish.^[15]

Hocevar started the2023 season with a twelfth place finish atDaytona. He scored his first career win atTexas in double-overtime after race leaderNick Sanchez made contact withZane Smith on the final lap and Hocevar unintentionally spun Sanchez from behind.^[16] Hocevar also scored wins atNashville andRichmond.^[17][18] He won atHomestead to make the Championship 4.^[19] During therace, he spun outCorey Heim, which also collectedStewart Friesen. After that, Heim retaliated on Hocevar so he finished 29th. After 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.

On April 18, 2025, it was announced that Hocevar would drive part-time forSpire Motorsports in their No. 7 truck in four races.^[21] In his second start with Spire, he would earn his fifth-career win atKansas.^[22]

On March 7, 2023,Spire Motorsports announced that they will expand their racing operations to theNASCAR Xfinity Series, with Hocevar running six races in their No. 77 car, making his debut in the series atCircuit of the Americas in the No. 07 forSS-Green Light Racing before suffering a brake failure leading to a 36th-place finish.^[23] He was initially on the entry list for the race atDover 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 atDarlington Raceway. He would finish sixth at Darlington and eighth atCharlotte Motor Speedway but would DNF atNashville Superspeedway.

On February 24, 2025, it was announced that Hocevar would drive forSS-Green Light Racing withBRK Racing, replacingGarrett Smithley atCOTA.^[24] He was involved in an early wreck, earning a 38th place DNF. On July 30, shortly afterJosh Williams was released byKaulig Racing,^[25] it was announced that he would drive the No. 11 for the team atIowa.^[26]

On May 30, 2023, Hocevar was named the driver of the No. 7 Spire Motorsports Camaro ZL1 for theEnjoy Illinois 300 atGateway Motorsports Park after Spire's full-time driverCorey LaJoie would fill in the No. 9Hendrick Motorsports Chevy while HMS driverChase Elliott served a one-race suspension.^[27] 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 sixteenth place. Hocevar drove theLegacy Motor Club No. 42 (originally driven byNoah Gragson, then byJosh Berry andMike Rockenfeller on road courses after Gragson was suspended prior to the Michigan race) to a seventeenth place finish atDarlington.^[28] He then scored a career-best 11th place finish at theBristol night race.^[29][30] On October 4, Hocevar was signed to drive the No. 42 for the remainder of the season,^[31] except atHomestead-Miami where the team's 2024 driverJohn Hunter Nemechek drove in the No. 42 car instead.

On October 10, 2023, Hocevar announced onNASCAR Race Hub that he will bypass theXfinity Series to joinSpire Motorsports in theCup Series full-time for the2024 season, driving the No. 77 car under a multi-year deal.^[32][33] Hocevar started the season with a 40th place DNF at the2024 Daytona 500. He scored his first career top-10 finish atTexas. AtNashville, Hocevar spun outHarrison Burton during a caution lap; as a result, he was finedUS$50,000 and docked 25 driver points.^[34] AtRichmond Hocevar would score his third top-10 finish of the season, tying his best finish of eighth. In qualifying for theregular season finale at Darlington, Hocevar put the 77 car on the front row, qualifying second. It was the best starting spot for Spire Motorsports in the team's history, along with Hocevar's best starting spot for his own Cup career.^[35] Unfortunately, Hocevar would crash on Lap 335 and would DNF in 33rd place. AtWatkins Glen on September 15, Hocevar once again eclipsed his best career NCS finish for the third time in 2024 with a third place finish, leading a triple top 10 for Spire Motorsports and even contending for the win in the final restarts. At the end of the season, he won theNASCAR Rookie of the Year honors.^[36]

Hocevar started the2025 season with a 30th place DNF at the2025 Daytona 500. The following week atAtlanta, Hocevar once again eclipsed his best career NCS finish for the fourth time in his career with a second place in a close, controversial finish. He was behindChristopher Bell and aheadKyle Larson at the time of caution coming to the checkered flag during an overtime restart.^[37] AtTexas, he would earn his first career Cup Series pole. Once again atNashville, Hocevar eclipsed his best-finish afterRyan Blaney beat him. Following theMexico road race, Spire Motorsports fined HocevarUS$50,000 and ordered him to undergo cultural-sensitivity and bias-awareness training for making scathing comments onMexico City during a livestream.^[38] During theHollywood Casino 400, Hocevar spun, and after safety personnel had arrived at the crash scene, officials indicated that Hocevar revved and spun his tires in an attempt to rejoin the field while those safety workers attended to his car. On October 1, Hocevar was fined US$50,000 for member conduct violations.^[39]

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. On November 15, 2025, Hocevar and co-driver, Garrett Mitchell aka Cleetus McFarland, won the 5th annual 2.4 Hours of LeMullets at the Freedom Factory in Bradenton, Florida.

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 byBryan Clauson, whom Scott Hocevar was a crew member for.^[40] Later he would also be mentored byJohnny 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 hisOutlaw Late Model program.^[41]

Hocevar is the son of Scott and Amy Hocevar. He graduated fromGull Lake High School in 2021.^{[citation needed]}

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

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