Denny Hamlin Doesn’t Shy Away From Provoking Angry Pocono Crowd as NASCAR World Calls Out Championship-less Driver’s “Hypocrisy” & “Lies”

It’s official, Denny Hamlin has won at the Pocono Raceway for the seventh time, achieving his 50th Cup Series career win. Rife with multiple cautions and wrecks, the Pocono 400 race event had fans on the edge of their seats, but Denny Hamlin’s final laps tango with Kyle Larson stole the limelight.

Met with loud booing from fans at Pocono’s Victory Lane, Denny Hamlin further provoked the crowd.

Denny Hamlin’s HighPoint.com 400 victory

Alex Bowman was sitting pretty in third place during the final stage when in Turn 3, his #48 Chevy spun out, triggering a restart. Passing by Kyle Larson on the inside during the restart, Hamlin pushed him toward the outer wall in Turn 1, causing the #5 Chevy to slam sideways into the SAFER barrier. In the meantime, Justin Haley’s crash triggered the yellow flags to be brought. Under caution, Larson expressed his displeasure with Hamlin’s actions by driving into the #11 car’s driver-side panel. Still holding on to his lead, Hamlin flew under the checkered flag in the first place, collecting the Pocono race win. 

Arriving at Pocono’s Victory Lane, Denny Hamlin justified his in-race actions, saying, “Both guys wrecked themselves. There was a lane. He missed the corner first and evidently he didn’t have his right-side tires clean and when he gassed it up he kept going again. You have an option in those positions to either hold it wide open and hit the fence or lift and race it out. But those are choices they made. I didn’t hit either one of them. I didn’t touch them.”

Upon hearing Hamlin’s words, the already-unimpressed Pocono crowd responded with loud boos directed at the #11 Joe Gibbs Racing driver. Further riling up the already vexed crowd, Denny Hamlin added, “I love it! They can boo my rock out of here in a few years!”

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As the video of Denny Hamlin’s Pocono Victory Lane speech hit Twitter, fans quickly called out the JGR driver.

Fans call out “championship-less” Denny Hamlin

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Infuriated by Denny Hamlin’s “don’t care” attitude, fans on Twitter slammed the JGR driver for hypocrisy and lies. Expressing displeasure with Hamlin’s words, one fan wrote, “No. He’s wrong and a hack. He got into Larson but of course King Denny can never be wrong”. Another fan pointed out how Denny Hamlin always wrecks someone to win, writing, “Cant win w/o wrecking someone for the win, no wonder he has 0 championships complete hack”. Here are some more comments from the fans.

“Lies, lies and more lies.”

“Guys a hypocrite. Would be calling a penalty if someone did that to him.”

“Hypocrite Hamlin back at it again. [facepalm emoji]”

“No, hypocrite, hack. There was clear contact.”

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