Denny Hamlin by no means shies away from saying what he actually thinks about NASCAR. A veteran driver within the storage and part-owner of 23XI Racing, the 44-year-old has an affect like few others within the sport.
Simply final week on his Actions Detrimental podcast, Hamlin referred to as out NASCAR for ignoring followers’ requests to extend horsepower within the Subsequent Gen automotive. As a driver and a crew proprietor, he had an attention-grabbing perspective on the subject.
“The problem appears to be crimson tape, clearly,” the No. 11 automotive driver mentioned. “We have heard that NASCAR says, ‘Effectively, one other producer. They’re shut. They’re shut.’ Till that occurs, I simply suppose why not give the folks what they need? After which if a brand new one is available in and says, ‘Hey, I can not produce that. I want to provide decrease.’ Then let’s taper it again to 650.”
Kyle Larson leads driver Denny Hamlin at Bristol Motor Speedway.Randy Sartin-Imagn Photographs
He continued, “However till then, I do not see the explanation in sacrificing A, what the folks need, B, it is what the drivers need. And that may assist the fan sentiment alone as a result of the followers feed off of regardless of the drivers say.”
On this week’s episode of Actions Detrimental, Hamlin as soon as once more introduced up his points with the Subsequent Gen automotive, ripping NASCAR for not testing the automotive sufficient and emphasizing the shortcoming to cross because of the construct of the automotive.
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“They only didn’t do sufficient testing,” Hamlin mentioned. “The automotive wasn’t prepared. We needed to delay it one yr, we had the COVID factor — it was not thought out sufficient. We didn’t have a number of racecars on the racetrack testing this automotive till two months earlier than the very first race. And at that second is after we all realized holy sh*t, you can not cross. It was actually, actually unhealthy.”
Hamlin echoed many followers’ sentiments after yet one more lackluster short-track race final weekend at Bristol. Nevertheless, he thinks the automotive could be mounted if NASCAR works carefully with groups and drivers.
“We will repair this automotive. The groups can repair this automotive,” he mentioned. “We simply acquired to get with the drivers, get in a room and work out what do you struggle? Why can’t you cross? After which give you some treatments of how we will change this.”
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