Carson Hocevar Wins 1st Career Cup Race at Talladega, New Crew Chief For Kyle Busch & Texas Preview

About this episode

The episode covers Carson Hocevar's first Cup Series win at Talladega and discusses various NASCAR updates and previews.

Carson Hocevar’s first NASCAR Cup Series win at Talladega, his unforgettable post-race celebration, pit road mistakes, and major NASCAR leadership changes headline a wild weekend of racing action and analysis. On this episode of Kevin Harvick’s Happy Hour, Kevin Harvick, Kaitlyn Vincie, and Mamba Smith break down Carson Hocevar capturing his first Cup Series victory at Talladega Superspeedway, dive into the costly pit road errors across multiple teams, and react to Andy Street being named the new crew chief for Kyle Busch. The trio also discuss NASCAR announcing that Steve O’Donnell will become the CEO, they highlight Andy Jankowiak winning the ARCA race with Cleetus McFarland finishing second, preview the upcoming race at Texas Motor Speedway as Kevin shares a hilarious Texas story, and they react to the latest Mamba’s Social Sips. 0:00 - Intro 2:30 - Talladega Weekend Recap 23:34 - New Crew Chief For Kyle Busch 34:56 - Texas Preview 40:13 - Mamba’s Social Sips 48:27 - Last Call Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

People in this episode

Hosts: Kevin Harvick, Kaitlyn Vincie, Mamba Smith

Topics covered

• NASCAR Cup Series
• Talladega
• Kyle Busch crew chief
• Texas Motor Speedway
• pit road mistakes
• NASCAR leadership changes
• ARCA race

Keywords

• Carson Hocevar
• NASCAR
• Talladega Superspeedway
• Kyle Busch
• pit road errors
• Texas Motor Speedway
• ARCA race
• Steve O’Donnell
• Andy Street

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