After the anti-climatic finish at Pocono Raceway, all eyes are on the race-winning controversialist, Denny Hamlin. Despite the last-minute turnaround to rack up his 7th win at the technical speedway, the Joe Gibbs Racing veteran has garnered a lot of hate from the community for his standout move to steal the win from his friend, Kyle Larson.

And the veteran’s sudden heel turn doesn’t sit well with his own NASCAR driver, Bubba Wallace. The 23XI Racing driver recently spoke his mind about the controversial finish, strongly voicing his disagreement with Hamlin publicly.

Bubba Wallace throws his boss, Denny Hamlin, under the bus

Not everyone understands Denny Hamlin’s emotion, and there is a valid reason for it. Bumping off his close friend in the closing laps of the race to snatch a win isn’t something that sits well with the community. Adding fuel to the fire are the veteran’s comments after the race; not only did he justify his act, but he even went to the extent of poking fun at the HMS driver, Larson.

While the 23XI Racing co-owner proudly embraced the villain persona, flaunting his brash self, even his own NASCAR driver, Bubba Wallace, threw the veteran under the bus when he recently spoke his mind, saying, “Yeah, you know that’s the new defense mechanism, Denny touched him, definitely there was contact, that late in the corner you are showing your true colors right?”

Furthermore, the Alabama native went on to cite the Ross Chastain-Noah Gragson stint at Kansas to prove his point while he voiced his stance if were in Hamlin’s shoes, saying, “It has happened to a bunch of guys, you look at Ross (Chastain) and Noah (Gragson) at Kansas this year, it’s the new thing like you can’t drive in the corner now and attack air anymore like to get somebody lose you, get underneath somebody and they get tight and they get tight too but I at least wanna give somebody a chance to see the end of the corner instead of just running them into the fence and pass them that way.” 

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Explaining his stance on NASCAR Live, Wallace then went on to reiterate his stance on racing against friends, again doubling down on his boss as he mentioned him racing hard against his friend, Ryan Blaney.

“We race each other hard, but…” Wallace says he is not like his boss

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Bubba Wallace is a unique individual. While he is hated for his political stance and his on-track antics at times, Wallace is a person of moral values. Unlike the #11, Hamlin, who just stole a win from his friend, Kyle Larson, at Pocono, Wallace was asked, “What about racing friends? You know, Denny (Hamlin) made a point to say he actually races his friends harder, where do you stand on that spectrum?” 

Wallace gave a resounding answer, revealing his moral side. “Yeah, I think that last time I raced my friend hard or it was on accident, I wrecked (Ryan)Blaney in Michigan in a truck race, right? And that was lap half, you know we race each other super hard, right? But it comes to a point where you don’t put each other into the fence, you can do everything else, I think but that you know, ruining a guy’s day.” 

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With the Cup Series action heading to the Speedway at Michigan, will Larson and the HMS camp get their sweet revenge, or will the veteran continue down this road, unapologetic, and go on with his justification?