“Teams Are Losing a Lot of People” – Denny Hamlin Sheds Some Light on the NASCAR Supply Shortage Nightmare

While NASCAR fans have enjoyed the racing caused directly by the introduction of the Next Gen car this season, on the other side of the fence, the team owners haven’t had the same blissful experience as fans. In fact, it’s quite a nightmare on many fronts for teams, the biggest problem of which, or rather the root problem of which, is the supply issue. Driver and co-owner Denny Hamlin recently touched upon the “tough spot” they find themselves in.

Ahead of his home race in Richmond, the 23XI Racing co-owner was quizzed about whether he’s worried about burnout for his team considering the long season that is still ahead of them.

“I’m not sure what we can do about it,” Hamlin said. “We have to work extreme hours because we don’t have, we have to wait on parts. Like my crew chief told me on the plane this morning, ‘Don’t tear the splitter up.’ Like we have legitimate concerns. We don’t have a splitter for Martinsville.”

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“How do you do that in a race? There’s just a really, the short supply is causing extended hours, and eventually people just, I think I saw stuff on Twitter yesterday that it’s like, teams are losing a lot of people just because of workload, and eventually it becomes a problem,” the Joe Gibbs Racing driver continued.

“We can’t afford to pay them more. I mean we’re trying to do everything we can to tread water right now so it’s just a tough position we’re in. The supply chain is just not coming through to us as good as it needs to.”

Denny Hamlin looking for the breakthrough to “build off of” in Richmond

‘Disappointing,’ will be the aptest word one can use to describe the season Denny Hamlin has had so far. However, now in Richmond, the JGR driver admitted that they are trying to find “that point” as a team. He said. “We are decent, but we are not where we have been for the last three years.”

“We are trying to find that point where we are good, and we can build off of that,” Denny Hamlin added.