Crew Chief’s Shocking Remarks on Hamlin Richmond Crash Data

Denny Hamlin’s race car was race-winning in the Aug. 11 NASCAR Cup Series race at Richmond. Austin Dillon is much better. But instead of Richard Childress Racing’s lead in the race, leading the second to second No.

At the start of the green and white, Hamlin was third in the final laps and had a seat in front as he watched the No. 3 car make its way to the back end of Joey Logano, placing the win twice over. . the skid, and the aggressive movements of the RCR driver took him away.

The sea seems to have parted for racing driver Joe Gibbs. It closed quickly as Dillon got into the right rear of the #11 Toyota as he went down and immediately let go to the right and up the track for a hard crash into the outside wall. Hamlin was uninjured and finished second on the caution period. Although not seriously injured, Hamlin crew chief Chris Gabhart revealed the severity of the impact the No. 11 driver had on Aug. 15 on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.

“Any time you have a major accident that warrants further investigation of the accident data logger, NASCAR will release the data from that accident,” Gabhart said. These are 21 JGRs during Gen 7 (next generation). On Sunday night, 32-G was at the wall from turn four, heading to the checkered flag. It’s the highest record ever, the military chief said. Higher, I might add, than Kurt Busch pulled last at Pocono. Above.”

Denny Hamlin is associated with big crashes and right rear corners More than two years ago Kurt Busch drove his No. 45 during the 2.5-mile race, came loose and hit the outside wall hard, first on the right rear and then on the front side. right He suffered a concussion and never drove for the Hamlins Racing 23XI team. retired

Last year Hamlin was involved in another ugly accident at Charlotte and unfortunately for him, another right-rear hook, this time the victim of Chase Elliott’s decision-making. The Hendrick Motorsports driver didn’t like how the JGR driver had given him minimal room on the outside coming out of turn 4 in the rain-shortened race and made a sharp left turn into the No. 11’s right rear, which sent the Toyota hard into the outside wall.

A year before that, Hamlin’s driver, Bubba Wallace also received a one-race vacation for right-rear hooking Elliott’s HMS teammate Kyle Larson in Las Vegas, in another retaliatory move.

While Denny Hamlin has personally been involved in multiple violent crashes, including the most recent at Richmond, he’s been able to walk away and talk about it. It is not painless. He admitted on his podcast last year, including a leg injury in that Coke 600 race.

So it can’t be denied that drivers still don’t get hurt, it’s common in a sport where the cars are going close to 200 mph, but not really hurt, like what happened to Busch and Alex Bowman in 2022. We saw it

While the Gen 7 was initially criticized for its negative effects and side effects, the management team has listened to drivers and made adjustments. The drivers were not seriously injured, and this is thanks to the design and improvements made since its introduction in 2022. And the data, while scary, is backed up.