Denny Hamlin

Hamlin has had a running beef with Chastain on the track throughout the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season. At one point, he vowed he would pay him back for his ...

What'd you expect me to do?" It's going to be on a meaningful day." "What'd you want me to do?

Denny Hamlin and Ross Chastain offer their viewpoints on an incident between them late in Sunday's Cup race at Pocono Raceway.

Chastain apologized afterward, but Hamlin was frustrated with Chastain. Hamlin moved Chastain up the track. Asked if it was over now with Chastain, Hamlin said: “We’re just going to keep racing hard until we get the respect back from these guys. Asked if that was payback, Hamlin said: “What would you want me to do? Hamlin and Chastain restarted together on the front row with 18 laps left. As the field went through Turn 1, Hamlin and Chastain were side-by-side.

After finishing one-two in a Cup Series race Sunday, Denny Hamlin and Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch had their cars disqualified.

There’s some areas that all the teams are well aware that we cannot go down the path that we had in the past with the other car.” “We were shocked to learn of the infraction that caused our two cars to fail NASCAR’s post-race technical inspection,” Gibbs said in a statement. “And that does basically come down to a DQ.”

What looked to be a banner day for Joe Gibbs Racing where two of its drivers, Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch, finished first and second in Sunday's NASCAR Cup.

But the teams and the owners and everybody is well aware that this new car was going to be kept with some pretty tight tolerances, and there’s some areas that all the teams are well aware that we cannot be going down the path that we had in the past with the other car. The last thing we want to do is meet here afterwards and talk about this problem. NASCAR introduced a “Next Gen” car this season that sees teams assemble its cars using the same parts and pieces acquired from third-party vendors. Under the rules in place at the time, Logano was allowed to keep the "encumbered" win but could not use the win to earn playoff eligibility. He will no longer be given credit for the stage win and the bonus points that go along with it. “The part was the front fascia.

NASCAR disqualified Hamlin and Busch for failing post-race inspection, giving the win to Elliott.

The NASCAR Cup Series hits the bricks next weekend, as they head to the iconic Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the second-ever race around the track's infield road course. Wallace's fourth top 10 of the year exceeds the amount he scored in all of 2021, and just one more will tie his career-high set in 2020. Gibbs ran up inside the top 15 late in the race before settling in to finish a respectable 16th. - Harrison Burton is starting to make a regular appearance in this section of our recap. As a result, Harvick is now 83 points back of Martin Truex Jr. for the final spot in the playoffs on points with five races to go. At a disadvantage on the bottom of the track in Turn 1, Hamlin got an angle off the corner by force, leaning into Chastain's door as the two exited the corner side-by-side for the lead. A statement by Busch released on Sunday suggested that he was targeting a return to competition next week at Indianapolis. This marks the first time that the winner of a Cup Series race has been disqualified for failing post-race inspection since NASCAR resumed the practice of stripping wins from cars deemed illegal in 2019. After a crash in qualifying on Saturday left him suffering from concussion-like symptoms, Kurt Busch was not cleared to race by NASCAR on Sunday morning. In an April 1960 race at Wilson Speedway, Emanuel Zervakis was disqualified for having a fuel tank that was too large, leading to NASCAR awarding the win to Joe Weatherly. That pitted Chastain and Hamlin side-by-side on the ensuing restart, which is where things got really interesting. After Hamlin took the checkered flag in Sunday's race with Kyle Busch just behind him in second, both Joe Gibbs Racing cars failed post-race inspection, resulting in both drivers being disqualified from Sunday's race.

Joe Gibbs Racing had Hamlin's car and runner-up Kyle Busch's No. 18 Toyota both disqualified. Hamlin lost his record seventh victory at Pocono and his third win ...

Chastain wrecked Hamlin two times in a month earlier this season – Hamlin counted two more times from last season – and was fed-up with the aggressive driving of the watermelon farmer. “We’ve just been good friends and he’s certainly someone that I look up to from a talent standpoint,” Hamlin said. “I’m very thankful just to come into this whole thing,” he said. Hamlin’s young daughter burst into tears of joy and he sent her to retrieve the checkered flag. I’m going to very disciplined in these situations.” “We were shocked to learn of the infraction that caused our two cars to fail NASCAR’s post-race technical inspection,” Joe Gibbs said in a statement. Hamlin had plenty to handle from the start, when the pole sitter tagged the wall on the opening lap. Perhaps not, as the wife of Chastain’s race team owner Justin Marks tweeted, “Game. On.” There’s some areas that all the teams are well aware that we cannot go down the path that we had in the past with the other car.” Hamlin lost his record seventh victory at Pocono and his third win of the season. Chastain slammed the wall and triggered a wreck that collected several drivers, including winless Kevin Harvick, who is fighting for a playoff spot. Hamlin swept two races at Pocono in his rookie season in 2006, and added wins in 2009, 2010, 2019 and 2020.

NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin mimicked Steph Curry's victory celebration after his record-setting seventh win at Pocono Raceway on Sunday.

He is one victory away from tying Junior Johnson for the most wins by a driver without a championship. From Sabrina Ionescu to Alex Morgan to even children, the world can't get enough of the celebration. Unlike Curry and Jordan, Hamlin has been unable to seal the deal at the end of his first 16 seasons.

After the race, race winner Denny Hamlin and runner-up finisher Kyle Busch each failed post-race inspection. However, the contact with Chastain wasn't the ...

“And, there’s some areas that the teams are aware, we cannot be going down the path that we had in the past, with the other car. We are bringing the vehicles back for further evaluation. But, the teams and owners are well aware that this new car was going to be kept with some pretty tight tolerances.” “We can’t go into all the details of what the issues were. They’ll go back to the R&D Center.” Instead, Hamlin and Busch will be regulated to the finish two spots on the results sheet.

Third-place finisher Chase Elliott was declared the winner, adding to his 2022 NASCAR Cup Series win total. He now has four for the season.

"The final results have been changed to show that the two DQs were there and they have the opportunity to appeal it. "But the teams and the owners and everybody is well aware that this new car was going to be kept with some pretty tight tolerances, and there's some areas that all the teams are well aware that we cannot be going down the path that we had in the past with the other cars." Hamlin then held off a late push from Busch to win the race.

Chase Elliott said he won't celebrate the victory awarded to him after Pocono winner Denny Hamlin was disqualified when Hamlin's Toyota failed a postrace ...

Elliott, 27, the 2020 Cup Series champion and NASCAR's most popular driver, said he was moving on from Pocono as if he did indeed finish third. FanDuel said Monday the house rules state bets are settled on the result of the podium presentation regardless of any subsequent disqualifications. Pushing the edge of the rulebook -- creatively or illegally -- has been a part of NASCAR's culture since its inception. NASCAR could hit JGR with stiffer points penalties and fines than Zervakis faced in 1960. And that does basically come down to a DQ," NASCAR Cup Series managing director Brad Moran said Sunday night. Joe Gibbs Racing declined to appeal NASCAR's decision to strip Denny Hamlin's victory and teammate Kyle Busch's runner-up finish on Sunday after their Toyotas failed inspections.

The Joe Gibbs Racing teammates finished first and second at Pocono Raceway before NASCAR DQ'd them.

“We were shocked to learn of the infraction that caused our two cars to fail NASCAR’s post-race technical inspection,” team owner Joe Gibbs said in a statement. However, in the projected playoff picture, Hamlin would be ranked eighth and Busch 10th. There’s far too much at stake with plenty of room for more than 16 winners in the regular season, meaning it might take more than one checkered flag to be guaranteed a playoff berth. No appeal requested by the Nos. 11 and 18 teams.” And NASCAR isn’t done with the two cars either. “The part was the front fascia. But about two hours after the race ended, media members on the ground in Long Pond, Pennsylvania began reporting that both Hamlin and Busch were disqualified. Earlier this season, Brad Keselowski and his No. 6 RFK Racing Ford team were handed a very stiff punishment for messing with the Next Gen parts supplied by the universal vendors — though he wasn’t disqualified, just docked a lot of points and his crew chief was suspended. There really was no reason why there was some material that was somewhere it shouldn’t have been, and that does basically come down to a DQ.” Hamlin led 21 of the race’s 160 laps, while Busch led for 63. Back then at Wilson Speedway in North Carolina, Emanuel Zervakis was disqualified for having an oversized fuel tank, which made Joe Weatherly the eventual winner. You may have heard about some recent NASCAR drama involving two big-name drivers being disqualified from the latest race and wondered what’s going on.

Denny Hamlin used some aggressive driving and a little revenge to win the Pocono race but was disqualified when NASCAR inspected his car.

"The teams and the owners and everybody is well aware that this new car was going to be kept with some pretty tight tolerances," Moran said. Hamlin is locked into the playoffs with two wins and Busch is likely in with one win and eighth place in the standings. The "fascia" refers to the front bumper and grille of the cars. "Taking the wrap off in certain places is part of postrace tech." We apologize to everyone for this mistake, and we have made changes to our processes to ensure that it does not happen again." "There was some issues discovered that affect [aerodynamics] of the vehicle," Moran said.

Just like that, Pocono storylines got turned on their heads in what amounts to a 10-point playoff swing. Hamlin had just completed one of his best races, ...

Kudos to NASCAR for making a gutsy call, keeping a driver battling for a playoff spot on the sidelines after suspicion he has post-concussion syndrome. "What did you want me to do?" Twice while leading in the last 10 months and I'm at the end of it." But the teams and the owners and everybody is well aware that this new car was going to be kept with some pretty tight tolerances… He got TKO'd from that race within two minutes after a six-car wreck; on Sunday, Pocono gave him a second sucker punch with a hard wreck off turn 3 into the frontstretch wall. It's a risky moment in NASCAR's new NextGen policies that come down hard on any alterations to the racecar. "Today was definitely a team thing," Hamlin said of what appeared to be the winning moves. Green: Tyler Reddick -- Buried deep in the headlines was Reddick jumping to second with these dual disqualifications. And exactly how and what was wrong can't be dumbed down to a full sentence or shown by officials on replay like, say, an NFL holding penalty call? Now? It's Elliott earning an edge on the field, his fourth victory (pending appeal) giving him 11 more playoff points than anyone else and allowing his hometown Dawsonville Pool Room down in Georgia to have a little fun. But where does this leave NASCAR and Joe Gibbs Racing after the first Cup victory disqualification in the sport's modern era? Just like that, Pocono storylines got turned on their heads in what amounts to a 10-point playoff swing.