POS Driver Car # MFG 1 Jimmie Johnson 48 Chevrolet 2 Joey Logano 22 Ford 3 Kyle Busch 18 Toyota 4 Kasey Kahne 5 Chevrolet 5 Kurt Busch 78 Chevrolet 6 Denny Hamlin 11 Toyota 7 Dale Earnhardt Jr 88 Chevrolet 8 Jamie McMurray 1 Chevrolet 9 Matt Kenseth 20 Toyota 10 Carl Edwards 99 [...]
POS Driver Car # MFG 1 Matt Kenseth 20 Toyota 2 Denny Hamlin 11 Toyota 3 Jeff Gordon 24 Chevrolet 4 Jimmie Johnson 48 Chevrolet 5 Kevin Harvick 29 Chevrolet 6 Kyle Busch 18 Toyota 7 Carl Edwards 99 Ford 8 Juan Pablo Montoya 42 Chevrolet 9 Dale Earnhardt Jr 88 Chevrolet 10 Ryan Newman [...]
Before climbing out of the car, Denny Hamlin took a moment to close his eyes and exhale. He had just completed his first full race in six weeks and on top of that, it was at Darlington, a tough track that hosts one of the Sprint Cup Series' longest races of the season.
And, oh yeah, he had just finished second.
"I'm tired. Show More Summary
Denny Hamlin’s back and there’s no time to waste. Hamlin has 16 attempts to win enough races – and score enough points – to grab one of two Wild Card spots in this year’s Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup™. It can be done. But it won’t be easy. The Virginia driver will make his [...]
When you're a father, you become protective of your kids—and to a certain extent, kids that may not even be your own. You try to give them guidance and become a role model to follow. You watch over them and try to do everything in your...Show More Summary
On Friday at Talladega, Denny Hamlin slid into a Sprint Cup Series car for the first time since his crash at Auto Club Speedway on March 24.
Earlier in the week, Hamlin was cleared by doctors and NASCAR and will start Sunday's race, though the team's plans for him haven't been finalized. Show More Summary
Denny Hamlin has been cleared by doctors to race at Talladega Superspeedway after missing four straight races due to a compression fracture in his lower back. Hamlin sustained the injury during a final-lap wreck in the Auto Club 400 in late March. Since the major setback, Mark Martin and Brian Vickers have filled in for [...]Show More Summary
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Denny Hamlin knows all too well that NASCAR still remains a sport where severe injury or worse is a possibility every time a driver takes the track. It was no more evident for the Joe Gibbs Racing driver than on the final lap of March's NASCAR race at Auto Club Speedway. Show More Summary
Driver Denny Hamlin had hoped to make a dramatic return to the Sprint Cup Series this Saturday night at Richmond International Raceway, and who could blame him? When it comes to short-track racing, Hamlin ranks amongst NASCAR’s best....Show More Summary
Who says Joe Gibbs Racing teammates don’t get along? Kyle Busch is certainly receiving gifts, from Denny Hamlin in the form of shiny trophies from winning the latter’s annual charity event. Rowdy was romping through the field again at...Show More Summary
Denny Hamlin will not make his return to the No. 11 at Richmond on Saturday night.
Hamlin had expressed optimism at Kansas that he could be cleared to drive at his hometown track, but after conferring with doctors, the decision was made...Show More Summary
The process continues. With Denny Hamlin on the mend but still on the sidelines, Joe Gibbs Racing heads for Texas Motor Speedway intending to keep its No. 11 Toyota near the top of the NASCAR Sprint Cup owner point standings. Stand-in Mark Martin did his job. A 10th-place finish at Martinsville Speedway – while Hamlin sat atop the pit [...]
Darian Grubb is a Sprint Cup Champion crew chief. He was starting his second season as the crew chief for Denny Hamlin when Hamlin was injured at California a couple of weeks ago and he now finds himself calling the shots for multiple drivers filling the seat in his car until his driver returns. Show More Summary
Should provisions be made for injured drivers in regards to competing for a championship? That’s a question that’s been asked several times since Denny Hamlin’s announcement of a spinal injury following a wreck at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., about two-and-a-half weeks ago. Hamlin missed Sunday’s race at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway and is expected [...]
I understand why so many people have spent the last two weeks talking about Denny Hamlin's lost season as he recovers from a fractured vertebrae in his lower back, suffered in a crash in Fontana, Calif. Sure, Mark Martin filled in for...Show More Summary
Denny Hamlin has every right to be frustrated.
The first Sprint Cup race he’s missed since becoming the full-time driver of the No. 11 for Joe Gibbs Racing is rapidly approaching. Martinsville is one of his best tracks statistically,...Show More Summary
While the injuries they sustained in severe wrecks were different, long-time NASCAR great Sterling Marlin can relate to what Denny Hamlin is going through after the latter's wreck at Fontana nearly two weeks ago. The impact of the vicious...Show More Summary
Denny Hamlin plans to attend this weekend’s NASCAR race at Martinsville, Va., which means his feud with Joey Logano didn’t cool down during the sport’s Easter weekend off. Hamlin is out for six weeks after suffering a compression fracture in … Continue reading ?
Few competitors in Sunday’s STP Gas Treatment 500 have more Martinsville Speedway experience than Mark Martin. Martin, who’ll take the controls of the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota in relief of injured Denny Hamlin, participated in his first race at the 0.526-mile short track in September 1981. A quick study, the then-22-year-old finished third behind NASCAR [...]
Not to beat a dead horse, but I decided to bring up the topic of blocking again. You know, the move for which both Denny Hamlin and Tony Stewart are critical of Joey Logano. Hamlin and Stewart have both had run-ins with Logano the last couple of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races and neither were [...]