“Get Off My A**” – Denny Hamlin Reveals Details on Intense Rivalry With His Own Driver Bubba Wallace That Exploded at Martinsville

One incident that attracted everyone’s attention during the recent Martinsville race was when Bubba Wallace punted his boss Denny Hamlin multiple times during the race. Now, as unheard of and as rare as the thing was, a driver hitting his own boss on track, it wasn’t all that unfair.

Because it was Hamlin himself who hit Wallace first, leading to the #23 driver just giving it back to the #11, something which even the fans recognized.

But this begs the question: why did Denny Hamlin hit Wallace in the first place?

Well, we have an answer now.

Denny Hamlin on the Bubba Wallace incident in Martinsville

In a recent episode of the Actions Detrimental podcast, Hamlin touched up on the incident with Wallace as he revealed he “got into it” with his own driver while he was trying to pass the backmarkers.

“I knew a green flag cycle was about to start and also I saw (Joey) Logano, him and a couple other guys that would be normal contenders week in week out. Like an opportunity to lap them, I’m pushing, I want to lap all of them because it opens up my box of strategy that I can do with less cars on the lead lap,” Hamlin recalled. “So I was behind Bubba for a really long time & I’m getting frustrated and I’m like, ‘Gosh dang it..’”

“I moved up and then he moved up in front of me and I just did that for about 3-4 laps and I’m like, ‘I gotta dive it in here.’ And when I dove in he came down, we hit, I knocked him up the track and then he, for four straight laps had my rear tires off the racetrack.”

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What did Hamlin tell Wallace afterward?

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Having explained how the whole thing came to be, Hamlin revealed the thing he said to Wallace after the race. “I told him afterwards, I’m like, ‘If you wanted to hit me, that’s fine for once or twice but eventually you gotta get off my a**. I am the leader of the race,'” he described.

“It’s just a situation in which he knows how important it is to stay on the lead lap and I’m fighting to put all these guys a lap down.”

So now that this incident has been explained by Hamlin, would you consider the whole thing his fault, or is it a racing incident?

Let us know in the comments below.

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