Kelly Crandall

Oct 22, 2026, 01:23 PM ET

Joey Logano understands why people are making the comparison. After all, Logano was once a young driver who ruffled his NASCAR Cup Series peers' feathers and had to offer plenty of explanations and apologies.

But now, a three-time champion, Logano won't go so far as to call Carson Hocevar a carbon copy.

"He's definitely done it in a different way," Logano told ESPN. "I don't think there is much comparison to me; in some ways I think there is, but not really on the things that I went through. It's definitely different and unique. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it.

"There are a lot of things I'm like, 'Huh. That's just a whole different way of doing it.'"

Logano was still a teenager when he became a Cup Series driver. With tons of talent and expectations, he was thrown in at the deep end, sometimes failed, and, in the process, got caught up in some of the sport's most high-profile incidents.…