Simply 27 laps into the common season finale at Daytona Worldwide Speedway, a large wreck collected a few dozen automobiles, together with bubble driver Alex Bowman.
The wreck started when Bubba Wallace, Joey Logano, and Kyle Busch acquired tangled collectively within the tri-oval, and in the end ended Wallace’s night time, but additionally collected 23XI Racing teammate Riley Herbst, in addition to his boss, Denny Hamlin.
On his weekly podcast, Actions Detrimental, Hamlin analyzed the wreck and the foundation explanation for it.
“It regarded prefer to me that Bubba simply squeezed these two guys beneath him down,” defined Hamlin. “You might simply see that they are there, two automobiles on the within. “I do not know what Freddie [Kraft, #23 spotter] was calling. Possibly he was saying three huge prime or not — I am undecided, however he [Wallace] simply squeezed on down there and there was no room. So he ended up wrecking himself, and clearly just a few others.”
Some talked about how Kyle Larson was pushing Wallace, and he could have had an influence on the place that No. 23 ended up in that scenario. Nonetheless, Hamlin appeared to disagree.
“I am it and I do not assume so. The #5 [Larson] was already on him shut, however no. That is simply the #23 not clear. It is simply a kind of not clear moments.”
Hamlin soldiered on to a Twenty fifth-place end, but it surely continues a streak of unhealthy finishes for him on the iconic superspeedway. He crashed on the ultimate lap of the 2025 Daytona 500 whereas battling for the win, and he has zero finishes greater than seventeenth in all eight Subsequent Gen period races on the monitor. That’s fairly the shock, as Hamlin is a three-time winner of the Daytona 500 with the earlier technology of automotive.
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