Denny Hamlin follows a format each Monday when he sits down with a mic in entrance of him to document his “Actions Detrimental” podcast. It contains reviewing the races from the weekend earlier than and speaking concerning the numerous subjects that developed in addition to trying ahead to the races within the upcoming weekend. It additionally contains discussing information objects that occurred for the reason that final episode.
On Monday when doing the latter, the Joe Gibbs Racing driver revisited the remarks of NASCAR’s Senior Vice President of Competitors Elton Sawyer on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio from the week earlier than when he talked about Talladega and questioned whether or not something wanted to be fastened on the 2.66-mile superspeedway, which was the direct reverse of the sentiments for a lot of followers and drivers after the race.
Denny Hamlin speaks to the media at Darlington Raceway.James Gilbert/Getty Pictures
“I believe that for my part, after we had Elton go on final week, speak about superspeedway racing and say, ‘I do not perceive. What do we now have to repair? Have a look at the stats that we have got for this week. We had 67 lead modifications and no matter else.’ I believe you lose some credibility with the followers,” Hamlin stated on the podcast. “And I believe the followers have a low morale proper now attributable to their lack of religion within the competitors management. I do not understand how else to say it. I believe that it is a robust place they’re in. I believe that they need to in all probability simply 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 inform you why we did this, or inform you why we did that.’ I respect that transparency from them. However if you go in there and also you sort 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 have a superspeedway drawback and we saved ignoring it.”
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— Kyle Dalton (@kdsportswriter) May 8, 2025
The 44-year-old continued, speaking about how NASCAR made up its personal stats to look good and some moments later talked about how the sanctioning physique doesn’t give the fanbase sufficient credit score and surprisingly introduced up a latest interplay he had with Michael Waltrip on the golf course.
“The issue in my thoughts is that our race followers are smarter than that,” the three-time Daytona 500 winner stated. “I imagine honestly in my backside of my coronary heart, most of our race followers — Michael Waltrip stated this to me this weekend. We have been {golfing} and he is like, ‘I do not perceive what everybody’s so mad about. Look, the automobiles are two by two and the informal fan does not know that they cannot go.’
“I am like, ‘The quantity of informal followers watching us every week is 10%. I imply, our followers are core, man. They know what they’re seeing. They’re smarter than you suppose they’re.’”
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