Denny Hamlin seemed absent for most of Sunday's race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, but that was by design.
The weekend started off badly in qualifying as Hamlin could be found slogging around the track, over two seconds off the pace. He landed himself a start at the very back of the grid for Atlanta. His team immediately went under the hood, choosing to replace plug wires. The same change was made to his Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Martin Truex Jr. and Ty Gibbs in a proactive attempt to avoid the same issue on race day. They too, would start from the very back.
' A day avoiding wrecks ends in a wreck The big wreck finally did happen -- on the final lap, and Hamlin himself was collected. He crab-walked his damaged car across the line, finishing 24th and collecting only 13 points. “Just saw cars turning sideways in front of me,' he said of the incident. 'Tried to avoid wrecks all day and just got in the last one.” Hamlin leaves Atlanta 11th in the championship standings, just two points above the cut-line.
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