PORTAGE, Mich. — Carson Hocevar lives like he drives — wide open, unapologetically, unconventionally. He stays up all night playing video games, races like a single missed opportunity counts as abject failure and says what’s on his mind, consequences be damned.
The man dubbed the “Hurricane” charms fans and sponsors, annoys competitors and relishes both. If you like it, great. If not, maybe even better because the sport needs a villain, or at least someone to talk about.
None of this is an accident. Hocevar watches old races to study drivers’ techniques, and he also absorbs how they talk, what they say in interviews, what attracts fans and what repels them…