“Really Skewed & Really Fluffed Up” – Denny Hamlin Laughs Off NASCAR’s Dubious Stat That Dale Earnhardt Jr’s Insider Savagely Bashed

Denny Hamlin recently got into a bit of a Twitter discussion about the number of passes from Martinsville. Allegedly, there were around 2,000 passes during the Cup Series race at NASCAR’s shortest track as per the governing body.

But Hamlin disagreed.

He not only uses Twitter to express his disagreements, but being the data-obsessed person he is, he went just a little bit deeper to understand just how NASCAR got to that number and how many passes actually took place.

It’s worth noting that Dale Earnhardt Jr‘s co-host Mike Davis also joked about this subject in a conversation with Amy Earnhardt as she was narrating a story about her cryo experience in which she mentioned the temperature gets as low as negative 145.

“That almost sounds like a NASCAR loop stat where it’s like they’re trying to convince us there was 2,000 green flag passes,” Davis said. “That feels like a non-survivable number.”

Denny Hamlin corrects NASCAR’s insane pass claims from Martinsville

In a recent episode of his podcast show, Actions Detrimental, Hamlin tackled the contrasting claims by drivers of lack of passing at the Martinsville Speedway and NASCAR’s claims of there being 2,000 passes while last season that number was 600.

This prompted Hamlin to “dig into that” as he was convinced there weren’t that many passes.

“NASCAR has a stat that they’ve been keeping since 2004 on green flag passes. It’s that NASCAR considers a green flag pass when a transponder from one car passes another transponder from another car somewhere on the racetrack,” he described. “Each racetrack has scoring loops and some of them can have upto 10, maybe on road courses they have 12-15 scoring loops.

“Let’s just use Martinsville for example. They probably have at least 7-10 scoring loops. So there’s a line in the track, it is an underground line that keeps scoring of the car.”

He explained how when two cars are battling side by side, the scoring loops can register that battle for the position with those cars going up and down at each turns as a pass. “So you can be credited for 5 or 6 passes in one lap when all you’re doing is running side by side. It’s just a matter of which car is nosing ahead,” he added.

Hamlin further supported his point by revealing the number of passes that happened when he went for a pit stop from the lead. “I go from 1st to 30th under the green flag pit stop sequence. 29 cars just got credited with a pass. I was sitting on the pit road, they never passed me,” he described. “But their transponder moved ahead of mine so there’s 29 passes that got credited in that race that did not actually happen. It was not a overtake at all.

“That’s where you can get see this number get really skewed and get really fluffed up really big really quickly.”

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Hamlin emphasizes NASCAR’s claims of 2,000 passes is absolutely wrong

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The Joe Gibbs Racing driver further explained that when he looked back into the data from the Martinsville race, he learned that he passed 46 cars while he was running in the top 15.

“We as the team started digging into data and I’m like, ‘I passed 14 cars all day, not just in the top 15—all day. I moved up 14 positions,'” Hamlin said. “So 2/3rd of that data is not real in the sense of I didn’t pass anyone. What they showed, 46 was really 14. I really passed 14 cars all day for a position on the racetrack.”

Hamlin emphasized that 2,000 passes at Martinsville simply didn’t happen. “There wasn’t,” he claimed.

“It’s just the way they formulate it.”

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