Denny Hamlin Admits He “S**ked” as He Replicated His Driver, Bubba Wallace’s Slump in the 2023 Season

Denny Hamlin isn’t having the season he’d have wanted or his fans would’ve wanted or his team would’ve wanted. He has remained winless in the eight races so far this season, with the recent Bristol dirt race being another entry into the list of disappointing finishes from the veteran this year.

Hamlin finished 22nd in Bristol even though he was running in pretty good spots.

So what went wrong?

He explained just that in a recent episode of his podcast show.

Denny Hamlin on the how the one ray of hope for a good result came to be in Bristol

During the latest episode of the Actions Detrimental podcast, Hamlin’s co-host Jared Allen asked him about what went wrong at the end that he could muster only a 22nd-place finish, considering he had moved up to 9th/1oth place during one of the restarts.

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“I was 7th because we stayed out, we stayed out at the end of Stage 2,” the Joe Gibbs Racing driver replied. He added it was so because they were stuck in 22nd or 24th places, and “could not go anywhere,” so they just stayed out.

Hamlin elaborates and then puts it simply why he finished 22nd

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Even though the #11 driver got as high as 7th during the race, he simply could not capitalize on it. Because even though he was in a competitive position, he simply couldn’t compete for the win, for one simple reason—his racecar.

He claimed, “By then, I’d had so many incidents, my car was torn up like hell that there’s no telling what’s wrong with it. It drove totally different at the end of the race than it did at the mid-point.

“I just think I hit so many things with tires and wheels that I had no front end left that my car was eliminated on speed.

“And I s**ked.”

Having said that, do you think Hamlin’s results will improve in the coming races? Or could this be one of the worst seasons of his career so far?

Let us know in the comments below.

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