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Newsweek
5 days ago
- Sport
- Newsweek
Stenhouse Jr. Escalates Tensions With Hocevar in Mexico: 'Gonna Beat Your A**'
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. walked up to Carson Hocevar's car after the Mexico City Cup Series race and threatened him for allegedly driving into him for the second time. The incident occurred weeks after Hocevar crashed into Stenhouse Jr. at Nashville Superspeedway. Stenhouse Jr. was furious that Hocevar made contact again in Mexico, marking a second incident between the two drivers in the same month. The Hyak Motorsports driver walked up to Hocevar's car after the race and said: "I'm going to beat your a**. You're a lap down. You got nothing to do. Why did you run right into me? Second time." The Stenhouse - Hocevar discussion with background noise reduction — nascarman (@nascarman_rr) June 15, 2025 He added before walking away: "I'm going to beat your a** when we get back to the States." Ricky Stenhouse Jr., driver of the #47 Fun Pops Chevrolet, looks on during qualifying for the NASCAR Cup Series AdventHealth 400 at Kansas Speedway on May 10, 2025 in Kansas City, Kansas. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., driver of the #47 Fun Pops Chevrolet, looks on during qualifying for the NASCAR Cup Series AdventHealth 400 at Kansas Speedway on May 10, 2025 in Kansas City, to FOX Sports' Bob Pockrass, Hocevar admitted it was his fault and explained his side of the story. He said: "I know he was very mad, and I was very apologetic. 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." What Carson Hocevar said about the Ricky Stenhouse Jr. incident. — Bob Pockrass (@bobpockrass) June 15, 2025 Stenhouse Jr. called it a dumb move by Hocevar. He told Bob Pockrass: "I told him on the phone [after Nashville], if it happens again, we're going to have issues. And then that one was even worse because he's a lap down. He's racing nobody. "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." Carson Hocevar locks up and he sends Ricky Stenhouse Jr into a spin.@AlwaysRaceDay — Mr Matthew CFB (@MrMatthew_CFB) June 15, 2025 The race in Nashville early this month saw Stenhouse Jr. lose several positions after he was hit by Carson from behind, causing him to hit the wall at high speed. Stenhouse Jr. hinted back then that a payback was coming for Carson. Newsweek Sports reported: "A lap or two before, he [Hocevar] tried to dive in there from about 10 car lengths back and then that time, I just opened my entry a little bit and he over-charged the corner and drilled us in the rear bumper. "I'd say it's not out of the norm from him, but I definitely wasn't expecting that at that point of the race. It's just a bummer for us." He added: "Bummed our day ended like that. Definitely will have something to do about it at one point."
Newsweek
04-06-2025
- Automotive
- Newsweek
Kyle Busch's Lavish 15,000 Square Feet Home Goes on Sale at a Premium Price
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. NASCAR star Kyle Busch has listed his 15,000-square-foot (approx.) barndominium for sale for an eye-watering sum of $4.5 million. While he resides at Lake Norman, Busch has decided to sell his Cleveland property, which spans 35.23 acres. Unsurprisingly, the property is well-suited for racing lovers and features its own underground garages and fuel storage. A saltwater pool, a basketball court, and a bar make this home a luxury standout. Busch bought this property from the Deegan family in 2023, who have a background in motorsport. Marissa Deegan revealed two years ago on Instagram that the property was ideal for those fond of racing. She wrote: Kyle Busch, driver of the #8 Rebel Bourbon Chevrolet, looks on during qualifying for the NASCAR Cup Series AdventHealth 400 at Kansas Speedway on May 10, 2025 in Kansas City, Kansas. Kyle Busch, driver of the #8 Rebel Bourbon Chevrolet, looks on during qualifying for the NASCAR Cup Series AdventHealth 400 at Kansas Speedway on May 10, 2025 in Kansas City, Kansas."We officially put the North Carolina compound on the market today! Truly one of kind and the perfect spot to raise a family especially if you love racing!! "Every amenity possible spent the last 14 months creating what met our family's needs moving from California! Little did we know God had other plans for us and since we love and support what our kids do Florida is home base now! Luckily I enjoy building and decorating and don't mind doing it over and over again🤣 along with everything else❤️ Can't wait to see who gets to enjoy this compound next....." However, Busch has listed the property for sale after just two years since he doesn't spend enough time there. He wrote on X: "We love this piece of land and the amazing barndominium but right now we just don't have enough time to spend there. We can't wait for someone to love it as much as we have!" 🏠FOR SALE We love this piece of land and the amazing barndominium but right now we just don't have enough time to spend there. We can't wait for someone to love it as much as we have! • 14,983 Sq Ft Barndominium • 35 Acres • More info on Zillow Contact Josh Tucker at… — Kyle Busch (@KyleBusch) June 3, 2025 This comes after Newsweek Sports reported the sale of Kevin Harvick's South Charlotte mansion for a sum of $9.825 million. The property was co-owned by his wife, DeLana Harvick. The mansion sat on a plot of 4.4 acres and featured a golf simulator, a pool house, a gym, and an arcade. The property was initially listed for a sum of $12 million in May 2024. Realtor Heather Gibbs stated that he was 'blown away' by the work that went into building the property. He said: "The first time I walked through this home, I was blown away by the quality, attention to detail, and patience it took my sellers to slowly build an estate of a lifetime." The Harvicks also own a property in Cornelius that became famous for featuring in the movie Talladega Nights. DeLana reportedly bought it for $6.75 million in 2023.
Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Appeals panel amends penalty levied against RFK Racing No. 17 team
On Wednesday, the National Motorsports Appeals Panel amended the L1-level penalty issued to the No. 17 RFK Racing team and driver Chris Buescher on May 15 after the NASCAR Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway. Upon hearing the testimony, the decisions of the National Motorsports Appeals Panel are that the appellant violated one or more, but not all, of the rule(s) set forth in the penalty notice. The team violated 14.5.4 (front bumper cover) but did not violate 14.1.2 (exhaust cover panel). Therefore, the panel amended the original penalty assessed by NASCAR to include a loss of 30 championship driver and team owner points, a loss of five driver and team owner playoff points, a two-race suspension for the crew chief and a $75,000 fine for the team. Advertisement In reaching the above decision, the panel provided the following explanation: 'The panel concluded that NASCAR met its burden of proof regarding the reinforcement of the front bumper cover but did not meet it regarding the trimming of the exhaust panel cover. The rule book regarding the exhaust panel trimming lacked specificity on the amount trimmed or not trimmed. Accordingly, the panel reduced the owner and driver points penalty from 60 to 30 points.' As a result of the modified points penalty, Buescher moves up from 23rd to 16th in the NASCAR Cup Series standings. The three-member panel was comprised of Mr. Tom DeLoach, Mr. Cary Tharrington and Mr. Kevin Whitaker. At Kansas, Buescher finished eighth in the AdventHealth 400 and his No. 17 Ford was selected as one of two cars to be taken back to the NASCAR Research and Development Center in Concord, North Carolina, for further inspection. That is where officials ruled the car was in violation. Crew chief Scott Graves has already served his two-race suspension.
Newsweek
19-05-2025
- Automotive
- Newsweek
RFK Racing Reveals Penalty Appeal Decision After Severe Buescher Punishment
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. RFK Racing has revealed that it will appeal the penalties levied against Chris Buescher and the No. 17 Ford team ahead of the race weekend in North Wilkesboro. The 32-year-old driver was docked 60 championship points and 5 playoff points for a front bumper violation in Kansas. On top of this, the No. 17 Ford team also lost 60 championship points, five playoff points, and were fined $75,000. Bueschers's crew chief Scott Graves was also handed a two-race suspension. The team has now confirmed that it will appeal the penalties. It revealed it in a statement: "After a thorough review of the penalties issued to the No. 17 Ford Mustang, RFK Racing has decided to appeal NASCAR's decision. Chris Buescher, driver of the #17 Kroger/Kleenex Ford, wiats backstage during pre-race ceremonies prior to the NASCAR Cup Series AdventHealth 400 at Kansas Speedway on May 11, 2025 in Kansas City, Kansas. Chris Buescher, driver of the #17 Kroger/Kleenex Ford, wiats backstage during pre-race ceremonies prior to the NASCAR Cup Series AdventHealth 400 at Kansas Speedway on May 11, 2025 in Kansas City, Kansas."We respect NASCAR's commitment to fair competition and appreciate the opportunity to engage in the appeals process." NASCAR confirmed that the time of the penalties, as previously reported by Newsweek Sports: "During inspection this week at the R&D Center in Concord, North Carolina, series officials discovered that the No. 17 Ford was in violation of Sections 14.1.C (overall assembled vehicle rules) and 14.5.4.G (front bumper cover) of the NASCAR Rule Book. The team went over the maximum reinforcement allowed for its front bumper covers. "As a result, the team and driver Chris Buescher were each assessed with the loss of 60 championship points and five playoff points, and the team was fined $75,000. Additionally, crew chief Scott Graves has been suspended for the next two races through Charlotte." Buescher stated to the media after receiving the penalty, ahead of the All-Star Race weekend at North Wilkesboro Speedway: "Yeah, it's already behind me right now. "You know, we're here at the race track, we've been prepping for this race for a really long time already. Nothing's changing on our weekend. For us, we'll deal with that during the work week, but it's race weekend now. "So yeah, with the speed we've had this year and what we've been able to do at a lot of different styles of race tracks, it's the same opportunity we felt like we had before Thursday. So yeah, I'm ready to go for this one." He added: "You've got to rough people up for a million dollars, I guarantee it, and that's the way it should be. "It's supposed to be good, hard racing here. We've had some great racing through the years here, well before we came back, and we're trying to be a part of more coming back to this historic raceway here."
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Kyle Larson's peak is highest in today's NASCAR; how does it stack up all-time?
In the week leading up to the 2025 All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro, it was fitting that NASCAR's star of stars delivered a performance worthy of the title. Not only did Kyle Larson win his third race of the season at Sunday's AdventHealth 400 in Kansas City, but he also barely gave the field a chance — starting on pole, sweeping both stages, and leading 221 of a possible 267 laps (82.8 percent). His reward: a 149.7 Driver Rating, just a fraction shy of the perfect 150.0 mark outlined in the official rating formula. Advertisement (In football terms, Larson came up just short of a perfect 158.3 passer rating — a feat we see only once or twice per NFL season, if that often.) RELATED: All-Star Weekend schedule | Paint Scheme Preview: North Wilkesboro For Larson, it was his second near-perfect performance in the span of just four races, joining the 149.6 he posted at Bristol. And that was on the heels of a 149.7 at Bristol last fall and a literal 150.0 at the Charlotte Roval in the 2024 playoffs. At this point, it's clear: Larson is the one active driver who can roll into any track on any weekend and utterly destroy the field through the sheer force of perfection (or at least near-perfection). So just how much more likely is Larson to unleash one of these super-dominant performances than a typical driver? Let's compare the frequency at which Larson has posted a Driver Rating within various ranges over his career to the overall Cup Series average since the stat became available in 2005: As we can see, Larson posts an above-average Driver Rating far more often than the typical driver. (He's also much less likely to have a bad day than the average driver.) And while most of his competition hovers near the middle of the distribution — the 'Cup average' sweet spot is around a 70.0 rating — Larson's distribution skews heavily toward the extreme right tail of the chart. Advertisement He's logged a rating of 140 or higher in 5.6 percent of his career races, making him 6.8 times more likely than the average driver to turn in that kind of dominant day. Narrow it further to ratings of 145 or higher, and Larson does that in 2.9 percent of his races — 6.9 times the Cup average. KYLE LARSON: Driver page That's still not exactly a routine occurrence, as it can sometimes seem when Larson is on one of these red-hot streaks. But it is as close to a common sight as this kind of thing can get — at least among current-era drivers. If we go back to 2005, the earliest season when we have data on Driver Rating, Larson has the best frequency of 140+ rated races (5.6 percent), and only Jimmie Johnson (at 3.4 percent) was more likely to have a 145+ rating in any given race than Larson at 2.9 percent. Only Kevin Harvick — at 4.7 percent and 2.5 percent, respectively — was all that close to Larson and Johnson in those categories of dominance: So if Johnson is Larson's only current-era peer, what about previous eras? Advertisement We don't have Driver Ratings for seasons before 2005, but we do know what goes into the Driver Rating formula. Given that, we can use what data we do have for each pre-2005 race, plus a technique called Logistic Regression, to estimate the odds that a driver posted a rating of 140 or higher in any historical race since the modern era began in 1972. (Specifically, we'll use data points like whether or not a driver won the race, their share of laps led, their starting grid position and where they finished the race — all of which are strong predictors of Driver Rating for the years where we do have data.) Suppose we apply this to all Cup Series races from 1972-2004. In that case, we find that only six drivers are estimated to have a higher share of races with a rating of 140+ than Larson's career 5.6 percent rate: Mark Donohue (16.6 percent), Cale Yarborough (14.5), David Pearson (12.2), Jeff Gordon (7.6), Bobby Allison (7.0) and Dale Earnhardt Sr. (6.4): Donohue is a unique case, an early road-course ringer who only ran six modern-era Cup races. He won one of them — the 1973 season opener at Riverside — leading 72 percent of the laps and dominating the field. The logistic model gives him a 99.6 percent chance of posting a 140+ Driver Rating in that lone victory, which came just two years before Donohue tragically died following a crash in Formula 1. Advertisement Beyond Donohue, the remaining five drivers on the list are a who's-who of NASCAR royalty — led by Cale Yarborough, with a staggering 14.5 percent estimated frequency of 140+ rated performances. (That's more than 2.5 times Larson's rate in modern cars.) Known for his utter dominance during the 1970s, Yarborough even had a couple of wins where he led every lap, so it's not implausible that he might have rattled off a near-perfect Driver Rating that often as well. It was a different sport back then — one where Yarborough once averaged a record-low finish of 4.5 over a full season, providing another verifiable benchmark of domination from the Hall of Fame legend. With that in mind, it's a bit surprising to see Richard Petty fall below Larson on this list. The King's name is synonymous with dominating the NASCAR record book, but the model estimates a lower share of 140+ rated races than Larson. In part, that's because he led fewer laps per win on average (43.3 percent) than peers like Yarborough (54.8 percent), and in part it's because Petty's unusually long career — which stretched until age 54 in 1992 — likely diluted his peak stats as well. Anyway, all of this helps add even more context to just how dominant Larson has been, particularly in recent seasons. He may not win the title every year, but when he's on, nobody buries the field quite like the driver of the No. 5 car. As we saw at Kansas, Larson can make a 267-lap race feel like a breezy Sunday drive. And while a few all-time legends may have reached similar heights more often in their primes, nobody in this current era has a higher ceiling — or hits it more often — than Larson does.
