Denny Hamlin, NASCAR and championship
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Denny Hamlin said Tuesday that he needed time to process his defeat in Sunday's Cup Series championship race before getting back in a car.
Denny Hamlin says he’s doing as well as one would expect two days after losing the NASCAR Cup Series championship at Phoenix Raceway.“There is not a whole lot of second-guessing, I would say,” Hamlin said.
Denny Hamlin suffered a heartbreaking loss at the NASCAR Cup Series Championship race, and two insiders have a lot to say about the playoff format it. On The Teardown podcast, Jeff Gluck and Jordan Bianchi of The Athletic weighed in on NASCAR’s current playoff format and whether it needs to change.
It's been nine months since the NASCAR Cup Series grid kicked off the 2025 season in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Thousands of miles of hard racing later, it's all come down to the Championship Race in Phoenix.