NASCAR driver Carson Hocevar fined $50,000 for calling Mexico City a 's***hole' during livestream

Spire said in its post announcing Hocevar’s punishment that he’s also required to take cultural-sensitivity and bias-awareness training. The fine will be distributed among the Mexican Red Cross, the United Way Mexico and Un Kilo de Ayuda, a nonprofit that helps childhood nutrition and development in rural communities across the country.

[quote] “These actions are consistent with Spire Motorsports’ core value of respect, which is something we proudly display on every race car, team uniform, trackside hauler, and digital channel,” the team’s statement said. “Respect is not a slogan. It is a daily expectation that we ‘walk the walk’ in how we speak, compete and serve the communities that welcome our sport.”

[quote] “Carson Hocevar’s recent comments during the livestream fell short of that standard. They did not represent the views of Spire Motorsports, our partners, or NASCAR. He has acknowledged his mistake publicly, and his prompt, sincere apology demonstrated personal accountability. We now take this additional step to underscore that words carry weight, and respect must be lived out loud.”

Hocevar, 22, finished 34th out of 37 drivers in the inaugural Cup race at the Autodrómo Hermanos Rodríguez. He again drew the ire of Ricky Stenhouse Jr. for contact during the race after Stenhouse crashed into the wall off Hocevar’s bumper two weeks prior in Nashville.

Good for his organization for penalizing him, and for distributing the money to local organizations.

I realize he is only 22 and confessed to never having been outside the U.S. before this event, but Americans are taught to be quick at the draw with calling any place a "shithole" that lacks all the same exact "luxuries" of their hometown strip malls.

Hocevar has apparently never been anywhere in the Southern US.

R2 - I would presume he had been given media training much earlier in his career.

But a redneck is going to redneck. I hope this does change him somewhat - but we're talking about a young guy from Portage, Michigan (talk about a shithole) who drives in a circle and probably barely got his GED.

Tens of thousands of athletes in all sports at the same age know better than to say shit like this.

I heard it's pretty easy to get a blowjob or handjob on the Mexico City subway. Anyone experienced this?

R5- Are you a WHORE, darlin?

Only in the last car of the subway. Only in the last one.

Mexico City is a wonderful place. Fuck this hick.

If he wants to know what a shithole looks like, maybe he should take a look at Trump's America these days.