Denny Hamlin Blasts Ross Chastain For 'Bulls--t Racing' In Talladega
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Lydia Mee is a contributing sports writer located in the West Midlands, England. Her focus is on F1 and NASCAR. She has in-depth knowledge of Motorsport as a whole. Lydia joined Newsweek in March 2024, having previously written Motorsport content for Sports Illustrated. You can get in touch with Lydia by emailing, l.mee@newsweek.com. You can find her at X @LMeeMotorsport.
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23XI Racing co-owner and Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny Hamlin has hit out at fellow Toyota driver Ross Chastain for "bulls**t racing" during the NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega.
During the Jack Link's 500 at Talladega Superspeedway, the Trackhouse Racing driver used a blocking move on Hamlin. Addressing the move during his Actions Detrimental podcast, Hamlin argued that if it had been the other way around then Chastain probably would have crashed into the back of him. He explained:
"But I believe the roles reversed, he would have, he would probably just run into me. I would think he would run into me as he should and say, 'I didn't make you swerve. I was running my lane with the pack of cars that was on the race track. You tried to merge up into a lane that wasn't there.'
"So, I just think it's bulls**t racing and I think that um, I guess you got to just hold it down and if you cause a wreck, hopefully, you spin them out and don't wreck yourself.
"That'll be hard to do, but at some point, I've got caught in wrecks and finished so horribly lately on these superspeedways, it's like, what do I care? At this point, just cram it in there and say, 'Sorry, it was your fault, not mine.'"
NASCAR Cup Series at Talladega: Jack Link's 500 race results
- Austin Cindric
- Kyle Larson
- William Byron
- Noah Gragson
- Chase Elliott
- Carson Hocevar
- Alex Bowman
- Bubba Wallace
- Daniel Suarez
- Austin Dillon
- Michael McDowell
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
- Cole Custer
- Tyler Reddick
- Chase Briscoe
- Todd Gilliland
- Ty Gibbs
- Erik Jones
- Zane Smith
- Ross Chastain
- Denny Hamlin
- Riley Herbst
- Ty Dillon
- A.J. Allmendinger
- Justin Haley
- Josh Berry
- Kyle Busch
- Anthony Alfredo
- Shane van Gisbergen
- John H. Nemechek
- Cody Ware
- J.J. Yeley
- BJ McLeod - DNF
- Chris Buescher - DNF
- Christopher Bell - DNF
- Brad Keselowski - DNF
- Ryan Blaney - DNF
- Ryan Preece - DSQ
- Joey Logano - DSQ