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New video, clear audio emerges of Ricky Stenhouse Jr. threatening Carson Hocevar

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Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Carson Hocevar
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New video and clear audio have emerged of Ricky Stenhouse Jr. confronting Carson Hocevar after the NASCAR Cup Series race at Mexico City. The video is from Hocevar’s car, and Stenhouse clearly threatens the 22-year-old driver.

“I’m going to beat your ass,” Ricky Stenhouse Jr. told Carson Hocevar. “You’re a lap down. You got nothing to do. Why did you run right into me? Second time.”

Hocevar admitted that he made a mistake, but Stenhouse was not having it. “I’m going to beat your ass when we get back to the States,” Stenhouse said before walking away.

Stenhouse was angry that Hocevar hit him late in the race. But that wasn’t the first time that happened as Hocevar bumped Stenhose two weeks earlier at the Nashville.

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

Carson Hocevar admitted to Ricky Stenhouse Jr. that he made a mistake

“I was working on the 34 [of Todd Gilliland] trying to work my way forward. The tire attrition was pretty difficult coming down to the end of it. And just from two, three [lengths] back, he just ran right in the back of us. A really dumb move, two out of three weeks on me now.”

Hocevar said he tried to get in a few words while Stenhouse was going after him. “I know he was very mad, and I was very apologetic,” Hocevar said. “I just got left and in the marbles and slid a lot longer than I expected. Obviously, No. 1, that’s not somebody I would ever want to hit again. But No. 2, I wasn’t racing anything. I was just logging laps, just trying to wait on a yellow and maybe see if we can put our day back together.

“I just hit a curb wrong and got in the marbles and slid all the way through the corner. I tried to turn left and avoid him. But just a really, really sloppy day by me. And then that was another incident of the day that was really just sloppy.”

Ricky Stenhouse Jr. finished 27th at Mexico City, and Carson Hocevar finished 34th. We’ll see if Stenhouse goes after Hocevar when the two compete in the Pocono race next Sunday.