Carson Hocevar Gets Blunt Message From NASCAR Teammate Before Phoenix Race

Michael McDowell called teammate Carson Hocevar a "young knucklehead" in an interview Monday as quoted by Racing News. The Spire Motorsports driver was answering Denny Hamlin's claim that the organization lacks adults, a charge that followed Hocevar's latest on-track altercation. Hamlin declined to give Hocevar more attention on his "Actions Detrimental" podcast after Hocevar spun Brad Keselowski in the Cook Out Southern 500 at Darlington in September. "There's no adults in the room, clearly. In that building, no adults," Hamlin said, according to Toby Christie's coverage. "I think they're unserious," he added.