{"id":29169,"date":"2025-07-01T06:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T06:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/29169\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T06:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T06:34:08","slug":"denny-hamlin-baffled-by-nascar-scoring-in-wake-of-massive-atlanta-wreck-somebody-needs-to-clarify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/29169\/","title":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin baffled by NASCAR scoring in wake of massive Atlanta wreck: ‘Somebody needs to clarify’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denny Hamlin <\/strong>had some questions for NASCAR after he was involved in a big wreck at the Atlanta race. On the Actions Detrimental<\/a> podcast, Hamlin was asked about NASCAR scoring when drivers are taken out after a major accident. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m in the garage, and they said, \u2018Hey, you can pass the 24, the 22, blah, blah, blah.\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018Wait a minute, I was ahead of them when we all crashed,\u201d Denny Hamlin said. \u201cWe were all on the hook; we all rolled to DVP, so how are they scored ahead of me? It\u2019s why we spent two hours fixing our car is to beat the cars that we\u2019re already ahead of when we crashed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI guess I\u2019m really not sure how that is. \u2026Usually when you crash, if none of you cross the start\/finish line again, it\u2019s wherever you were scored right before the crash. It\u2019s wherever you were on the last loop green flag or it\u2019s the start\/finish. They were all crashed behind me. Let\u2019s just pretend I started this wreck, I\u2019m at the front of the field, they\u2019re at the back, I don\u2019t know how they ended up leapfrogging me unless they got towed from the other direction and crossed the start\/finish line? It doesn\u2019t seem like it would make sense. Somebody needs to clarify for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Denny Hamlin breaks down the \u2018Big One\u2019 in Atlanta<\/p>\n

The wreck damaged 22 of the 40 cars. After the wreck, Hamlin explained what happened. \u201cAll of us were in the top line pushing off Turn 2. Some zigged, some zagged, most crashed,\u201d Denny Hamlin said. <\/a>\u201cI don\u2019t know. I was on the bumper of the 42 (John Hunter Nemechek); he was on the bumper of somebody else in front of him. We all just got to speedway pushing zigging and zagging, and we all crashed. Just part of it, and now we go watch the rest of the race.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamlin earned a P31 finish at the Atlanta race on Saturday night. It was a tough break for the No. 11 team, but the 2025 season has been strong for them. In 17 races, Hamlin has won three races, finished in the top 10 nine times and finished in the top five eight times. He is fourth in Cup points and 80 points behind the leader, William Byron. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin had some questions for NASCAR after he was involved in a big wreck at the Atlanta…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[11130,1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-29169","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-denny-hamlin","9":"tag-nascar","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114776589858816591","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29169","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=29169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}