A couple of weeks ago at the World Wide Technology Raceway, Carson Hocevar endured a scary accident. It started off as a simple spin on the track, but things changed when another truck rammed into him. The impact meant that he injured his ankle and was forced to undergo surgery. To everyone’s surprise, he turned up for the next race at Sonoma and earlier on Saturday at Knoxville. Hocevar also revealed some stories while in recovery and rued what could have been, without the accident.

He said, “I had a basic doctor, he comes down finally, he goes ‘Oh! You’re going to be six months in a cast’. Mom freaking out in the chair, like career-ending, and all for fifth. Then we get on the phone to a NASCAR doctor/surgeon that we knew from Michigan. When I got to Michigan, he was like, ‘Yeah, you’re gonna have surgery tomorrow. You’ll be able to race three or four weekends down the road’. I was like ‘How about Saturday?‘”

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What else did Carson Hocevar say?

According to the #42 driver, it could have been a really good day in the office for him. As he spun, Hocevar desperately tried to save the car, but it was to no use. Then, everything turned on its head during the first impact, and that was all he wrote. At the time of the accident, he was running in a fine fifth place, which would have been his fourth Top 5.

After the accident, he clambered out of his truck he attempted to stand, but his left foot was feeling sore. To make matters worse, his right foot buckled and could not take his weight. That was when he knew that something was definitely wrong, though he didn’t want to admit it out loud.

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