Carson Hocevar said all the right things in recent interview, but his on-track performance will have the final say

Carson Hocevar has certainly had his fair share of run-ins on the track this season and rubbed several drivers the wrong way as a result.

Despite his aggressiveness behind the wheel, Hocevar continues to run toward the front, as he showed once again Sunday night at Nashville when he tied his career-best finish of second.

That did not come without some controversy when Hocevar got into the back of Ricky Stenhouse Jr. on Lap 106, causing Stenhouse to make contact with the outside wall and record his first DNF of the season in 39th.

As Hocevar navigates the week-to-week grind of the Cup Series and adds to his growing list of drivers looking for payback, Spire Motorsports co-owner Jeff Dickerson spoke with SiriusXM NASCAR Radio earlier this week and said, "I don't want to slow him down" while acknowledging that he would like to see Hocevar "maybe round out a couple of the edges."

Hocevar, who won the Money in the Bank 150 super late model race at Berlin Raceway in his home state of Michigan on Tuesday night, joined SiriusXM NASCAR Radio on Wednesday to address his co-owner's comments and his latest run-in from Sunday night.

"I look at Jeff (Dickerson) for not just race car advice, but, like, life advice and everything else in between," Hocevar said. "So, like, he's lived it. And he said so many times, I think he said on the DBC (Door Bumper Clear podcast), 'you can figure it out on your timeline, or my timeline, and I'd like to do my timeline, because I think it's going to be quicker.' So yeah, we look, we've done it a lot. We work a lot. Me, Tyler Green (spotter) and Luke Lambert (crew chief), we always sit down. We go through so much stuff."

While Hocevar has been reached out to from "massive people in the sport" as he looks to make a name for himself at NASCAR's highest level, he echoed what his co-owner said when trying to balance having speed, but not making as many enemies on the track.

"We don't want to change... you don't want to change. And you know, lose our edge. But, as Jeff had told me multiple times, let's just round the edges off and have less moments of that and more moments of passing the other 25 cars without hitting them."

Per SiriusXM and Prime Video's Danielle Trotta, Hocevar said all the right things, saying he did eventually text Stenhouse. He said there are some things that he might change in that incident with Stenhouse, but he made it clear he is not going to change who he is, and he is still going to put his car in the best spot to win.