Denny Hamlin doesn’t have a contingency plan for Darlington Raceway. He has every intention of running the entire race. Hamlin turned 23 laps last week at Talladega before turning the car over to relief driver Brian Vickers. It was Hamlin’s first race since suffering a compression [...]
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The goal at Talladega Superspeedway was to get Denny Hamlin a chance to turn some laps and collect some points. He accomplished one of his two goals Sunday. Hamlin successfully returned from a compression fracture in a vertebra in his lower back by turning 23 laps [...]
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Denny Hamlin plans to start Sunday’s Sprint Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway, but don’t look for him to be in the car long. Assuming nothing changes during practice or qualifying, it will be the first race back for the Joe Gibbs Racing driver since suffering a [...]
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Want to know how far safety has come in NASCAR over the last three decades? Denny Hamlin isn’t racing at Richmond International Raceway this weekend and by his own admission, he’s bitter about it. Hamlin, who grew up about 15 miles from RIR and has two [...]
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Denny Hamlin will not be racing at Richmond International Raceway this weekend. It’s another Saturday night special this weekend, as NASCAR heads to Richmond, site of the final race before the Chase begins in September. But first things first — the Toyota Owners 400 will drop [...]
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Denny Hamlin hopes that he will return to Sprint Cup Series competition at Richmond International Raceway next week, but knows it depends on what the X-rays show. Hamlin, who will miss his third consecutive Cup race Sunday when the STP 400 goes green at Kansas Speedway, [...]
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Nestled into the rolling Maury County countryside an hour or so south of Nashville sits the Marlin family farm once owned by local racing legend Coo Coo Marlin. Two-time Daytona 500 winner and now retired NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Sterling Marlin, Coo Coo’s son, manages the [...]
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Mark Martin will get credit for finishing 10th at Martinsville Speedway, but it was the epitome of a total team effort. Filling in for the injured Denny Hamlin, Martin and the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing team were able to overcome numerous obstacles to finish in [...]
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Has a week off cooled the budding feud between Joey Logano and Tony Stewart? Logano sure thinks so, as he has put behind him the post-race incident from Fontana where he and Stewart nearly came to blows after Logano threw a late-race block that kept Stewart [...]
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Denny Hamlin is hoping to return earlier than the expected six-week recovery from the broken vertebra suffered in a wreck that he believes is Joey Logano’s fault. In his first extensive interview since returning home last week from the March 24 crash on the final lap [...]
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