Hauler Talk: NASCAR to monitor Hocevar, Keselowski feud
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NASCAR is monitoring the tension between Carson Hocevar and Brad Keselowski after their incident in the Cook Out Southern 500 but has no formal plans to broker peace between the drivers.
After being spun on the 107th lap, Keselowski told Above The Yellow Line Media that Hocevar’s “day is coming, and it’s coming hard. Watch out, Carson.”
When asked what happened to Keselowski by USA Sports, Hocevar said, “he spun,” later joking that “I do everything for TV and entertainment purposes based off everybody else. So I don’t know. Whatever makes us good TV. I just do it for the clicks.”
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Senior director of racing communications, Amanda Ellis, said the feud came up briefly during the NASCAR competition department’s weekly debrief Tuesday.
“It was discussed just a little,” Ellis said during the latest episode of the Hauler Talk podcast. “It was something that everyone was kind of briefed on.”There's no scheduled meeting between the two or anything like that heading into this weekend.”
NASCAR has met with feuding drivers to defuse animosity, including Austin Hill and Shane van Gisbergen earlier this season. That isn’t the case yet for Hocevar and Keselowski.
“There's a chance that (Cup Series director) Brad Moran may speak with Brad Keselowski just to follow up on his comments and check in,” Ellis said. “But no formal meeting in the hauler or anything like that. Hopefully those two will work it out and we'll move on.”