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On one hand, it was the full Carson Hocevar<\/a> experience at Atlanta, where he was going to take any gap that presented itself but he also acknowledged after the race that he likely has some apologies to make too.<\/p>\n It was an adventure out there:<\/p>\n His race began with a flat tire running inside the top-five and lost a lap on pit road. He started racing the leaders to stay just one lap down but had his right side window blow out and lost another lap. <\/em><\/p>\n He scored two free passes to get back on the lead lap, earned stage points by the second stage. Joey Logano<\/a> spun off his bumper with 22 laps to go. Hocevar is amongst the few to pit for four tires and the extra handling takes him back towards the front. <\/em><\/p>\n Racing for the win on the penultimate restart, Christopher Bell<\/a> gets put into the wall off his bumper. He gets hung out on the final restart and ultimately finishes fourth and leaves fourth in the early championship standings.<\/em><\/p>\n Carson Hocevar, No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet<\/p>\n “I turned Joey, I didn’t mean to do that,” Hocevar said. “He got stuck in dirty air? It’s my racing excuses like it wasn’t my fault but it definitely was. I was just looking in the mirror the whole time and thought I calculated my gap out front. I just missed it by an inch or two and I owe him a gift card.”<\/p>\n He got a push from Ross Chastain<\/a> behind him when he got into Bell. Any second gusses there?<\/p>\n “I probably could have slowed,” he said. “I felt like the Toyotas were going to maintain lanes and I felt like if they got lazy and left the middle open, I would be really aggressive and try to fill it. I saw it for a split-second right when I got a huge run and it looked like there was just enough when I was coming. I just went for it, it was in my mind, and by time I got there or by time he realized it, I don’t even need to see it, I’m sure it was closed up.<\/p>\n “I don’t mean to end their day or destroy their car. I just felt like it was in my best interest to break up the Toyotas from their best possibility there.”<\/p>\n Bell hadn’t seen the replay either.<\/p>\n “I haven’t seen it,” Bell said. “I’m going to keep my mouth shut until I see a replay. Yeah.”<\/p>\n Bell thought Hocevar was going to push him out ahead of Wallace.<\/p>\n “That’s what was communicated to me but you never ever expect anything, especially from him and, again, I haven’t seen a replay and maybe there was a hole there and that’s what he thought he was going to do. I don’t know.”<\/p>\n Hocevar got a pair of top 5s between the Truck and Cup races and ultimately called the racing this weekend video game like.<\/p>\n “I felt like the Truck race didn’t hurt, especially with no practice,” he said. “You have to race with aggression and confidence. It’s like a video game and I play a lot of those. Confidence is really big here and it worked out today.”<\/p>\n Read Also:<\/p>\n To read more Motorsport.com articles visit our website<\/a>.<\/p>\nIncidents with Logano and Bell<\/h2>\n
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