Perhaps Denny Hamlin is a bit late to the viral mannequin challenge. Recently, the NASCAR veteran and Bubba Wallace were invited to Park City’s Olympic Training Facilities in Utah, along with other Toyota-sponsored athletes.
The Joe Gibbs Racing driver and 23XI Racing co-owner posted a couple of pictures on his Instagram account, in the first of which he was “blending in.”
This was something that led Hamlin’s other driver, Kurt Busch, to pull his leg in the comment section with a sarcastic remark.
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“Can’t believe you stood still that long?! Keep up the good work,” Busch wrote.
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Bubba Wallace isn’t a big fan of his boss Denny Hamlin’s approach
If you know anything about Denny Hamlin, you know that he is one of the most methodical and meticulous drivers out there. Naturally, this same work ethic also seeps into his role as the co-owner of the 23XI Racing team.
But his driver, Bubba Wallace, isn’t a huge fan of his approach, which includes a lot of meetings.
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Earlier this season, ahead of the race at Talladega, Wallace addressed this quite directly, and quite bluntly.
“We have these meetings and meetings and meetings about what to do and what not to do and I’m just sitting there in one ear and out the other because I’m like, ‘it doesn’t matter’,” Wallace said. “You can come up with game plans, and (expletive) goes through the roof when the green flag drops. So, we just need to continue to do what we do.”
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“That’s what I tell Freddie [Kraft, spotter] every time I climb into the car. I say, ‘Hey man, let’s go out there and do what we do. Nothing different.’”
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