{"id":156748,"date":"2025-08-18T21:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/156748\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T21:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T21:45:15","slug":"denny-hamlin-reacts-to-2026-schedule-leaks-reveals-nascar-does-not-collaborate-with-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/156748\/","title":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin reacts to 2026 schedule leaks, reveals NASCAR does not collaborate with teams"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s expected that the 2026 NASCAR<\/a><\/strong> schedule will come this week. However, we have come to know of some changes ahead of time, from the addition of the San Diego street course to Homestead-Miami Speedway hosting championship weekend. <\/p>\n

What we ultimately see on the schedule was entirely NASCAR\u2019s call, Denny Hamlin<\/strong> said on his \u201cActions Detrimental<\/a>\u201d podcast. Hamlin added the sanctioning body does not collaborate with its drivers and teams on the schedule. <\/p>\n

\u201cSome of this schedule stuff is slowly leaking out. This is typical each year. The weeks leading up where they\u2019re leaking this track is in, this track is out,\u201d Hamlin said. \u201cThey\u2019ve said Iowa is in limbo\u2026 Chicagoland, no Chicago [Street Race], San Diego is in. I don\u2019t know, it\u2019s interesting kind of how it all works.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can assure you with one thing for certain, as much as they talk about collaboration \u2014 NASCAR doesn\u2019t collaborate at all with the teams, drivers or anyone on the schedule. That\u2019s their whole thing. We have nothing to do with it, no input, no nothing. Whatever it is, it\u2019s what they came up with.\u201d<\/p>\n

NASCAR schedule taking shape ahead of reveal<\/p>\n

Other changes that have been reported are the return of Chicagoland Speedway, which would replace Mexico City. The latest from Jordan Bianchi<\/strong> of\u00a0The Athletic,<\/a>\u00a0is there is an \u201cincreasing possibility<\/a>\u201d that the All-Star Race could be moved from\u00a0North Wilkesboro Speedway\u00a0to Dover\u00a0Motor Speedway. <\/p>\n

Bianchi noted that if Dover got the All-Star race, it could mean that North Wilkesboro lands a Cup Series points race. The last time a Cup Points race happened at the North Carolina short track was in 1996, when\u00a0Jeff Gordon<\/strong>\u00a0won the Tyson Holly Farms 400.<\/p>\n

Hamlin likes the idea of a points race in North Wilkesboro. He would be in favor of the All-Star Race going away, calling for NASCAR to give the teams another off week. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhy don\u2019t we just give the damn teams a week off? Like, they are running us through the grinder. It is a grind trying to get to the racetrack every single weekend,\u201d Hamlin said. \u201cDefinitely would enjoy another break, and I just don\u2019t see the need of trying to force this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s expected that the 2026 NASCAR schedule will come this week. However, we have come to know of…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":156749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-156748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-nascar","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115051962596362657","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}