Any doubt that Carson Hocevar won’t do whatever it takes to win a NASCAR Cup Series race should be quelled after Sunday’s Autotrader 400 at EchoPark Speedway.
Hocevar didn’t win on Sunday, but the third-year driver finished fourth and made plenty of noise in the process.
Hocevar had a flat tire early in the race and went two laps down before getting himself back onto the lead lap and back into the race-winning conversation.
After making several wild moves to get himself into a position to win the race, Hocevar restarted on the outside lane of the second row for the race’s first overtime restart. But rather than trying to push Christopher Bell and take a run down the backstretch, Hocevar instead channeled a quote from the late Ayrton Senna: