Denny Hamlin simply needs some mental honesty from NASCAR officers.
The Cup Sequence veteran took to his weekly podcast on Monday and spoke in regards to the disconnect between the sanctioning physique and followers, talking particularly about messaging from vice chairman of competitors Elton Sawyer and the way it successfully gaslights followers.
Sawyer went on SiriusXM Radio final week and stated he didn’t perceive why followers have been dissatisfied with the racing at Talladega as a result of a close to majority of it was run underneath excessive gasoline conservation.
Hamlin wasn’t impressed.
“If you had Elton go on final week speaking about Superspeedway racing and say, ‘I don’t perceive. What do we have now to repair?’ Take a look at the stats that we obtained for this week. We had 67 lead modifications,’ and no matter else, I believe you lose some credibility with the followers,” Hamlin stated. “I believe the followers have a low morale proper now as a consequence of their lack of religion within the competitors management.
“I believe it’s a troublesome place they’re in, however I believe that they need to simply most likely cancel the entire approaching the radio. I do know why they’re doing it, I do know why NASCAR comes on each Tuesday morning and says, ‘Let me let you know why we did this and why we did that.’ I recognize that transparency from them. However once you go in there and also you form of brush off what each driver stated and has stated for fairly a while with the superspeedway bundle, return three years’ price of podcast. I’ve stated we’ve obtained a superspeedway downside and we’ve saved ignoring it. I simply assume that NASCAR created its personal stats to make itself look good.”
That is the continuation of a feud of types between Hamlin and NASCAR competitors officers, with the motive force siding with jaded followers, and NASCAR insisting that the racing product is essentially regular or inside expectations.
