Dale Earnhardt Jr., Steve Letarte react to Carson Hocevar-Ricky Stenhouse Jr. feud after Mexico City

Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Steve Letarte had some interesting thoughts on the feud between Carson Hocevar and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. On Dale Jr. Download, the two broadcasters for NASCAR on Prime Video talked about Stenhouse and Hocevar getting into it after the Mexico City race.

“This has been really hard to watch, honestly, because Ricky Stenhouse was 20 points above the cut line going into Nashville,” Dale Earnhardt Jr. said. “That team does not belong in the playoff conversation, but they were overachieving incredibly. A compliment to them, backhanded, I suppose, but also a compliment to Ricky for just doing what he could do to be able to get them the best opportunity every single week.”

“I wonder if that’s not why I’m harder on Carson,” Steve Letarte said. “If he would be wrecking [William] Byron or [Christopher] Bell or one of these front runners, I’d be like, ‘You know, let’s cut the kid some slack. It’s going to be okay.’ But he keeps wrecking this guy that I’m cheering for as the underdog. I’m like, ‘Man, what are y’all doing?’ This is already hard enough. Let’s work with each other. I wanted to believe him after Nashville, and then after he ran him over in Mexico being a lap down, I’m like, what you say and what you do are not aligning, and I need that to connect for me.”

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Carson Hocevar turned Ricky Stenhouse Jr. during the final stage of the Mexico City race on Sunday. The incident led to Stenhouse going to Hocevar’s car and yelling at him.

“I am going to beat your ass when we get back in the States,” Stenhouse told him. Two weeks earlier, Hocevar turned Stenhouse at Nashville, and the two had a conversation after that race.

“I told him on the phone [after Nashville], if it happens again, we’re going to have issues,” Stenhouse said after the exchange. “And then that one was even worse because he’s a lap down. He’s racing nobody.”

Hocevar didn’t have a weekend to remember at Mexico City. Along with his incident with Stenhouse, the 22-year-old was fined $50,000 by Spire Motorsports for his derogatory comments during a Twitch stream. Hocevar apologized for his comments on Sunday night.