Carson Hocevar has dismissed criticism from fellow NASCAR driver Carson Ware after this weekend's action at Daytona.

Hocevar got into an altercation with Ware after Saturday's O'Reilly Series race, with the latter irritated that the Spire Motorsports driver had bumped into his door after the chequered flag.

Ware admitted that he was 'lagging back' at the effective green-white-chequered finish to avoid 'what happens' at Daytona, and that Hocevar told him when confronted after the race that he had been annoyed by him holding up and keeping the Cup Series driver from going for the win.

Hocevar has now commented on the incident publicly, insisting that he didn't do much in the way of damage to Ware's car compared to the battles it had already been through, and implying that the occasional O'Reilly Series driver and son of Rick Ware isn't a 'racer'.

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Hocevar: Some people aren't racers

Ware had told Noah Lewis after the race: “Yeah, so once the race was over and we took the checkered flag I was just kind of coasting back down to pit road.

"I’m cool with people flipping me off, I’ve got thick skin. That’s fine with me. But I was just really displeased with Hocevar dooring our racecar and tearing up stuff after the race. Our guys at Barrett-Cope work really hard and they put a lot of hours into this stuff. I was just sticking up for my guys.

“Like I said, you can call me names, flip me off, do whatever. That’s cool, I get it, everybody has emotions. But when we start tearing up racecars after the checkered flag, that’s just something I’m not cool with.”

However, speaking while streaming a sim race online, Hocevar hit back: "I also thought it was funny that he was mad about his stuff, like saying they have to pay their bills and everything, that I tore their stuff up. I looked at their car after, and I was like 'okay but the nose is knocked off the thing', there's a hole in the nose. That, I think, is a lot more expensive than not even a scuff mark.

"I understand some people aren’t racers and they just want to have it in their Instagram bio, and say they are racers. If you want to ride in the back, then whatever.”

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