NASCAR legend Kevin Harvick issues Ross Chastain warning on controversial Carson Hocevar

NASCAR legend Kevin Harvick has revealed his latest advice to Carson Hocevar, using fellow Cup Series driver Ross Chastain as an example.

Hocevar was involved in another controversial moment at Michigan last weekend when he triggered a nine-car pileup on lap 83, seeing several drivers sustain big damage.

As there often is when Hocevar is involved in an incident, there has been plenty of debate surrounding the Spire Motorsports star and his level of aggressiveness, and whether or not he needs to change his style moving forwards.

Kevin Harvick, though, believes that Hocevar should keep doing exactly what he has been doing, and backs the young star to figure things out by making these kinds of mistakes.

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Kevin Harvick reveals Carson Hocevar advice

“I think that my advice to Carson Hocevar from the beginning of the year to now would be much different,” Harvick explained on his Happy Hour show this week. “I think that he's learnt enough about how to manage the situations and not tear up his own car.

“He's going to continue to put people in a bad spot, but I think that's how you've got to race the Gen 7 car. I would tell him to keep doing what he's doing because that's what makes him good, and he's got this ability.

“Like, he's not going to drive that car into the wall again at Michigan just on his own trying to gain a spot. He's gonna teach himself all those things, and I think that when he goes back and looks at this video, he's going to realise I could have prevented that just with a couple feet to the left and hitting him square. That’s what caused the wreck. He probably could have hit him with it with the same speed.

Ross Chastain warning

“But I think what makes him great is what he is; he's going to teach himself those things. I would encourage him to keep going because mentally, it doesn't bother him, and I think he's very similar to Ross Chastain.

“But when that conversation with Ross Chastain and whatever happened with Rick Hendrick [after Darlington in 2023], that guy has not been the same since that point.

“You can't take a guy that drives like that and try to make him somebody different. They have to learn on their own, in trying to put themselves in the right spot and manage those little situations. But you gotta turn them loose, or they're gonna be somebody who they're not, and it won't be good.”