On his podcast, Denny Hamlin said he meant to hit Ross Chastain at the end of the Phoenix Cup race & hopes they can now race each other clean moving forward. NASCAR 🗣️It wasn't a mistake. I let the wheel go and I said he's coming with me.'
At the end of the race, both drivers had gained track position with a two-tire call. They restarted near the front for a sprint to the checkered flag, but it all went wrong whenslid up from the middle of the track in Turns 1 and 2 and slammed into the side of Chastain, putting the Trackhouse driver in the wall.
"I'm about to get passed by everybody behind me who is on fresh tires," he explained."I'm about to finish in the mid-teens and I said, 'you're coming with me buddy.' It wasn't a mistake. I let the wheel go and I said he's coming with me." The 2023 season began with yet another incident in the pre-season exhibition race in Los Angeles, with Chastain spinning Hamlin. According to the podcast, that sounded like the catalyst for this latest run-in.Looking back, he only lamented the fact that he cost himself over a dozen positions as well."I'm the dumbass who lost just as many spots as he did. But at the time, I was going to finish anyway and I'm just gonna make sure that he finishes right here with me.
"I'll be honest with you, the is hard to spin," said Hamlin in regards to Chastain."When he knows it's coming, he is the hardest guy to wreck on the planet."Hamlin went on to say that he wants this to be the end of it and hopes to"get back to racing" with Chastain. The two talked afterwards on pit road and apparently agreed to a truce.
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