DENNY HAMLIN CALLS FOR NASCAR TO PUNISH 21-YEAR-OLD DRIVER

21-year-old Carson Hocevar has been having a pretty strong season in his first year as a full-time NASCAR Cup Series driver. But he was responsible for an incident this past week that has at least one of his fellow drivers annoyed. 

On the latest episode of his Actions Detrimental podcast, Denny Hamlin admonished Hocevar for causing Harrison Burton to spin-out at the recent Ally 400 while under caution. Hamlin believes that NASCAR needs to punish Hocevar for his actions though a suspension would be too far. He asserted that a fine or even a points deduction would be more appropriate.

“I’m gonna call on NASCAR here — they need to do something to Carson,” Hamlin said. “They don’t need to suspend him or anything like that, but they need to dig into his pocket a little bit because I think you have to — anytime you have someone that goes before a judge, they always take into account your past history. And we’ve seen this happen when he was in the Truck Series, I think he right rear hooked someone under caution at Martinsville.

“Carson goes through these moments where he’ll be fine and then all of a sudden, he’ll just lose it. Certainly, Harrison took exception to it as he should. The 77 crashed him under caution. You need to dig into his pocket. Points is whatever, I don’t really know if he cares about points… You gotta do something."

Hocevar ranks 22nd overall on points and second among full-time rookies driving for Spire Motorsports.

Will NASCAR come down hard on Hocevar for his actions this past week?

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