Hurricane Hocevar Tears Through Talladega and Emerges as NASCAR’s New Storm Warning
Half the field was wiped out, the Big One went bigger than ever, and somehow Carson Hocevar kept it together long enough to win at Talladega.
Half the field was wiped out, the Big One went bigger than ever, and somehow Carson Hocevar kept it together long enough to win at Talladega.
For 114 laps it was patience and precision; on Lap 115 it was pandemonium, as Talladega’s ‘Big One’ swallowed contenders and rewrote the race.
Tyler Reddick has five wins in nine races and a front-row seat to NASCAR’s favorite tradition—cheering success right up until everyone gets sick of it.
Steve O’Donnell has the title now, but the direction? That’s been set for a while.
Tyler Reddick and his No. 45 23XI Racing team have decidedly established themselves the team “to beat” with every stop of the schedule.
Reddick found the perfect combination of pace and timing, leaving his car owner to wonder what might have been.
Logic packed up and left somewhere around three laps to go.
Strategy beat speed when it mattered, and the rest were left sorting out the mess.
It took less than two laps for Carson Kvapil’s Kansas run to go from leading the field to upside down on the backstretch.
In a room usually reserved for contenders, AJ Allmendinger showed up with something far less glamorous—realism and a plan to survive Kansas.