🇺🇸 Carson Hocevar

Carson Hocevar is an American professional stock car racing driver competing full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series since 2023. Across 205 starts in NASCAR's top three national series from 2019 to 2026, Hocevar has recorded 8 wins and 22 podiums, with a career average finishing position of P16.6. His record places him in the upper-professional tier of the sport, with a Racer Rating of 6,112. The bulk of his success has come in the NASCAR Truck Series, where he has contested 89 races and won 6 times with 16 podium finishes. His Cup Series career, now spanning over 100 starts, has yielded 2 wins and 6 podiums; his limited Xfinity Series work, restricted to 8 starts, has produced no wins or podiums.[1]

Hocevar has spent his career racing against a field of established and championship-calibre competitors. In sustained head-to-head competition, he holds roughly even records against 1-time Truck Series champion Zane Smith, 2-time champion John Hunter Nemechek, and FIA Silver-graded Todd Gilliland. He has run behind Ross Chastain and Kyle Busch, both champions, more often than ahead of them, though he has still finished ahead of each in numerous races. Against drivers of even stronger standing, such as Cup Series front-runners Kyle Larson, Denny Hamlin and Ryan Blaney, Hocevar has finished ahead of them on multiple occasions across their shared races, demonstrating occasional competitive peaks against elite opposition rather than a consistent pattern of outperformance.[2]

His recent activity shows continued full-time presence in the Cup Series coupled with selective starts in the Truck Series, where recent headlines indicate both the growing mainstream profile of his career and the mechanical challenges that continue to define professional racing at this level.