Zane Smith's Payback Against Carson Hocevar Cost Him Twice at Chicagoland — And NASCAR Isn't Stepping In

Chicagoland Speedway got its first NASCAR Cup Series race in seven years this month, and the track that used to help decide the fall championship field now has a very different headline: Carson Hocevar and Zane Smith spent their 100th career Cup starts using each other's sheet metal as a battering ram. The contact came on Lap 32 of the eero 400, when Smith's No. 38 Front Row Motorsports Ford got into Hocevar's No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet through Turns 1 and 2. Both cars found the outside