Mark Martin Reveals the Time Denny Hamlin Violated the “Driver’s Etiquette” During His Early NASCAR Days

Recently, former NASCAR driver Mark Martin shared an interesting story about Denny Hamlin. According to him, there was a bit of a hypocritical situation with the #11 driver. As it turns out, there was an unspoken gentleman’s agreement between all NASCAR drivers. However, Martin revealed that Hamlin violated it, and he had the audacity to complain about it.

Martin said, “We had a driver’s etiquette that was understood in NASCAR at the time. One of the things was, if a faster car is passing you, don’t hang on his right rear. It’ll slow you both down.”

“Something that you got to do today because passing is so hard. Back then, you didn’t want to lose time to the other competitors.”

“I caught Denny and was passing him and then he hung on my right rear for about a lap and a half. I squeezed him out and he complained about it.”

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What else did Mark Martin say about Denny Hamlin?

The former Roush Racing driver confessed that he had a talk with the Joe Gibbs Racing driver about the matter. Later on, Martin was vindicated when the same thing happened a few years later. This time, it was Denny Hamlin who was on the receiving end, from a younger driver. Now that he was older and wiser, he was able to impart some advice to the younger driver.

So he simply scolded the rookie for not observing the proper racing etiquette. In fact, Mark Martin truly enjoyed seeing Hamlin undergo the transition from having to learn of the agreement himself, to teaching it to others.

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Speaking of Denny Hamlin, the driver is currently in the midst of the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series campaign. He has already qualified for the Playoffs, but it would not hurt for him to rack up a few more wins.