Carson Hocevar, the No. 77 Spire Motorsports driver, has made jaws drop this year. Competing as a rookie Cup Series driver, the 21-year-old racer clinched 6 top-tens and 1 top-five, even leading 16 laps! This astounding performance resulted in his clinching the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series Rookie of the Year Award by 107 points over Josh Berry. But wait a minute, before we venture further about Hocevar, I would like to clarify that this piece is about his new better half. Yes, you read that right, Hocevar has a new girlfriend on the blocks and she is on a rampage on social media.

Who is Carson Hocevar, the rookie of Spire Motorsports?

For a quick brush-up on our astounding rookie of the year, let us look a little into 21-year-old Carson Hocevar’s history. When he was 12, Carson began racing at Berlin Raceway and he even took home the Outlaw Late Model Championship! The Portage, Michigan native joined the Driver’s Edge Development Program in 2019, which led him to greater heights. A career in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series began, where he clinched four wins and finished in the top ten over 30 times. His most recent win came at Homestead-Miami Speedway in October 2023. That same month, Spire Motorsports roped him into its fold for driving the No. 77 Chevrolet in the 2024 Cup Series season.

Who is Carson Hocevar’s girlfriend new girlfriend Holley Hollan?

Now to turn the chapter to Carson Hocevar’s better half. Between 2020-2024, the Spire rookie dated Peyton Lamphear. The latter is a Vermont native, a street stock racer who won the Thunder Road Speedbowl at the mere age of 15. Lamphear and Hocevar parted ways this year – but the latter’s next love interest would also be a motorsports athlete. However, it seems like Hocevar is dating someone else.

Now the Spire driver is dating Holley Hollan – a fourth-generation racer who is currently involved in the ARCA Menards Series. Her father, Harley Hollan, was a businessman and racer primarily in 600cc micro sprints. Recently, the two lovebirds posted some beautiful photos on Instagram, on the occasion of Hollan’s birthday. She reached Phoenix Raceway to watch her boyfriend race on the same day, and the two posed for the camera later. Hollan captioned: “23!!!!! 🤍 the best birthday weekend in phx”

What are Holley Hollan’s achievements as a racer?

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Holley Hollan, currently 23 years old, has been racing micros since she was five. In 2019, she sought to win a feature in both the NOS Energy Drink USAC National Midget Series and the POWRI Lucas Oil National Midget League. Hollan won her first USAC heat race victory during Indiana Midget Week at Gas City I-69 Speedway, jumping from the pole and leading all the way. She finished 6th out of 162 drivers in the POWRI League. Then Hollan spent 2020 transitioning to stock car racing as part of Toyota’s Development Program.

With being crowned as the Rookie of the Year, what is in store for Carson Hocevar in the 2025 Cup Series?

He came, he saw, and he conquered. Carson Hocevar got in touch with the Cup Series race for the first time in 2023. He was tabbed to fill in for Corey LaJoie in the No. 7 Chevrolet – and he made some jaws drop before a brake failure. Then, Legacy Motor Club hired him to drive the No. 42 – and he drove it to a 17th-place finish. These stellar finishes laid the foundation for Hocevar’s stellar Rookie of the Year campaign. So he came to Cup in 2023, saw how it’s done, and conquered it in 2024.

Gathering 6 top-ten finishes including a best finish of 3rd in Watkins Glen, Hocevar beat older driver Josh Berry in the run for the award. Now that Carson Hocevar is the 2024 Rookie of the Year Award, he can look forward to 2025. “I didn’t win the Truck Rookie of the Year and obviously didn’t run Xfinity full-time, so to do this, it’s something that I can’t race for the next year, right? So it’s something we wanted to win because you can only go for Rookie of the Year once,” he said.

He admitted that cracking the playoffs or winning Year 1 was never among his goals. Now that the Rookie of the Year trophy is under his belt, Carson Hocevar can dial up his targets. As his team continues to improve in the off-season, Hocevar is working on personal improvement. Following Nashville in June, Hocevar was fined $50,000 and docked 25 points for spinning out Harrison Burton under caution in a retaliatory move. So he is learning to temper his aggressive attitude. “It’s just being able to balance that more. They’ve got to get comfortable around me too, and I feel like I have the respect of others, but it’s a different type of respect.”

After a successful rookie campaign, Hocevar shared his practice schedule for 2025. He’ll be learning how to build a race car for the first time, as there is a brand new late model in the Spire Motorsports shop for him to put together. Car owner Jeff Dickerson will guide him through that. “It’s gonna be me and Jeff Dickerson’s toy in the shop to go play with. He reminds us that it’s good to have distractions.” He added,  “There’s nothing more I want to do than drive race cars, so once we get it built then we can go racing with it.”