{"id":47616,"date":"2025-07-08T03:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T03:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/47616\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T03:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T03:06:09","slug":"denny-hamlin-calls-out-nascar-officiating-on-cody-ware-caution-hints-at-potential-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/47616\/","title":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin calls out NASCAR officiating on Cody Ware caution, hints at potential ‘conspiracy’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denny Hamlin<\/strong> said on Monday\u2019s \u201cActions Detrimental<\/a>\u201d podcast that NASCAR<\/a><\/strong> should have thrown the yellow immediately after Cody Ware<\/strong> lost his brakes and slammed into the Turn 6 tire barriers on the penultimate lap of Sunday\u2019s Chicago Street Race. NASCAR waited nearly 35 seconds before throwing the caution flag. <\/p>\n

By then, race leader and eventual winner Shane van Gisbergen<\/strong> had taken the white flag, meaning the next flag would end the race. Hamlin felt NASCAR missed the mark. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis was not a good officiated race. No question about it [it should be an instant yellow]. That was a massive hit,\u201d Hamlin said. \u201cYou have got to throw the caution immediately. That\u2019s not a caution I would have liked to have seen by the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ware made head-on contact with the tire barriers traveling 93 mph. He radioed to his team, \u201cNeed help.\u201d According to Jeff Gluck<\/strong>\u00a0of The Athletic<\/a>, NASCAR was unaware of how fast he had gone into the barriers and was hoping he could dislodge himself like\u00a0Kyle Larson<\/strong>\u00a0did a year ago. If the caution had been thrown earlier, it would have meant overtime in downtown Chicago. <\/p>\n

Denny Hamlin criticizes NASCAR officiating\u2019s handling of Chicago Street Race<\/p>\n

At the time, however, weather was on the way. Hamlin believes it played a role in NASCAR\u2019s timing to throw the yellow. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m always going to be on the side of crown the fair winner. The fair winner was SVG. And yes, if you get into a green-white-checkered, you could have a lot of issues. But you know what, that\u2019s part of the deal,\u201d Hamlin said. \u201cSometimes, you have things that you wish didn\u2019t happen in the course of your event, but that\u2019s just bad luck. Regardless of what they tell you, I think no question, rain coming in, the possibility of lightning, the possibility of a complete shitshow worth of overtime \u2014 all of that played a factor, in my opinion. <\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 They\u2019re saying they didn\u2019t see how big the hit was \u2014 I don\u2019t understand that. You are not doing your job as officiating if you don\u2019t see \u2014 it\u2019s one thing to look and see there\u2019s a car over there. You gotta know how they got over there. \u2026 I\u2019m very certain in my belief that there was a lot of factors, some bad weather moving in place, that played a factor in when that caution was called.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ware was able to walk away from the violent collision. He himself was surprised at how long it took NASCAR to issue the caution<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, I mean especially given the speed of how fast we were going into the barrier,\u201d\u00a0Ware told Frontstretch<\/a>. \u201cObviously I\u2019m not going anywhere, there\u2019s not much I can do at that point. But obviously at that point I\u2019m just focused on getting out of the car and getting to a safe spot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin said on Monday\u2019s \u201cActions Detrimental\u201d podcast that NASCAR should have thrown the yellow immediately after Cody…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":47617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[1406,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-47616","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\/114815407970341746","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47616","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=47616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}