On paper, Denny Hamlin’s path to advance to the Championship 4 may look challenging but his crew chief, Chris Gabehart, believes his driver relishes the moment.
A power steering failure late in last weekend’s race at Homestead-Miami Speedway knocked Hamlin out of the race early and in a difficult scenario to advance to this season’s title race at Phoenix. Entering this weekend’s final race to qualify at Martinsville Speedway, Hamlin is fifth in the playoff standings and 17 points behind fourth-place Ryan Blaney.
And before his late-race issue at Homestead, Hamlin had finished sixth and fourth in the first two stages, respectively. For Gabehart, the most difficult part of Hamlin’s current predicament is that it did not come about from anything his driver, or the team could control. “I’m disappointed that we had a mechanical failure that’s put us behind. And when I say ‘we,’ it’s a very broad team,” Gabehart said. “It’s not just the No. 11, it’s not just JGR, it’s not just TRD, it’s all of us.
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