NASCAR takeaways: Who's the story at Nashville? Blaney or Hocevar?

A former NASCAR Cup Series champion led a race-high 139 laps and won for the first time in 2025 Sunday.

And yet, Ryan Blaney wasn’t the talk of the Cracker Barrel 400 .

That title belonged to Carson Hocevar, who ended Ricky Stenhouse Jr.’s night with a hard-racin' bump in Stage 2 and was making hand signals out his window in Stage 3, all while moving from 26th to a runner-up finish at Nashville Superspeedway .