Jeff Burton, Dale Jarrett blast Carson Hocevar, Spire after Darlington: 'They don't care'

Neither Burton nor Jarrett was impressed with Hocevar's remarks. 

What Jeff Burton and Dale Jarrett think about Carson Hocevar

"It's okay to make a mistake and just [say], 'I made a mistake,'" Burton said on the USA Network post-race show. "I don't understand the 'he just spun' thing. At some point, the competitors are going to get sick of it. How is this anybody's but Carson's fault? I just can't understand the dismissal of it. It just doesn't make sense to me. You have to have more respect for your competitors. 

"That's baffling to me. He's a champion, Brad Keselowski. Don't just spun him around and dismiss it."

Hocevar nudged Keselowski into the wall before hitting him again to finish him off and send the No. 6 Ford around. 

"He didn't just hit him once, he hit him twice," Jarrett said. "You can't just dismiss that. It can come back on you. If he's willing to take what's going to come back to him, keep at it. That's perfectly fine. I can't go about telling him how to win races and win a championship. But I can assure you, it's not in the way that you're going to make everybody mad. You're going to need cooperation along the way."

Burton also went after Spire Motorsports and owner Jeff Dickerson for not talking to Hocevar about his antics. 

"They don't seem to care," Burton said. "They just don't seem to care. They seem to be okay with it. Maybe that's right, I don't know. [Hocevar] has a long-term contract. They believe in him. I'm not going to question Jeff Dickerson and ownership. You would think, at some point, they would have to say, 'Enough's enough.' To this point, publicly, they don't seem to care."

Hocevar has already made plenty of enemies, though nobody has retaliated in a big way on the racetrack yet. But Jarrett is correct: winning a championship in NASCAR is difficult enough, and if a chunk of the field is set on not letting you do so, it gets much tougher.