Carson Hocevar recaps his day at Watkins Glen International and comments on his first career top-five finish in NASCAR's premier series.
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00:00Here with Carson is of our who finished third his first time ever in a cup car here at Watkins Glen
00:05How'd you manage to not only finish in the top ten, but you got a third place finish today
00:09Yeah, I mean we had a shot to win the race with this mattress warehouse car and we were 38th at practice
00:15And basically drove around over her night to clear my head
00:19I mean we were all not very good and in good spirits and thinking
00:25All right, let's just try and run 20th and finish the day. I mean we had had a flat on the way here
00:29I mean if we it was full-blown chaos
00:32Until the race started and luckily we were able to really regroup and keep our car under us and Tyler Green such a good spotter
00:39And note-taker and helping me with data Josh wise everybody the Luke Lambert really leads this team
00:45you know this team was 33rd and owners points or something like that last year and
00:48To fight for a cup win and if I had a little bit more experience or a little less
00:54To lose into one I had the advantage and just
00:58Underdrove it and gave up the leverage
01:00But you know the fact we were even saying we had a shot to win
01:03This early in our career and tenure together is spire and us
01:08It's super super, you know, it's a dream come true for me such a solid day for spire at one point
01:13You guys were all three running inside the top ten. What has this team done to become better at road courses?
01:19I think we've just gotten better as a whole. I don't know what we all did for road courses to be honest, but
01:26Jeff Dickerson
01:28Is the man he's the best owner I've ever met and worked with and you out needs and everybody I drove for is obviously really great
01:35But you know Jeff and I are like teenage best friends almost we don't even talk cup racing
01:41we just talk dirt cars or
01:43whatever
01:44Because I take that as a compliment and a vote of faith that he doesn't need to tell me what to do and a lot
01:50Of times when I get compliments, it's hey, did you see the sprint car race and oh, by the way, good job
01:54So I'm sure I'm gonna get that text later
01:57But yeah
01:57I mean he's what he's done to this organization and everybody and premier security Ziegler auto group game bridge group
02:031001 everybody that has invested into Jeff Dickerson and spire motorsports
02:08You know, they believe in him just as much as we do when we come to work. Thanks Carson. Thanks