Denny Hamlin
Denny Hamlin
James Dennis Alan "Denny" Hamlin is an American professional stock car racing driver. He currently drives the No. 11 Toyota Camry full-time in the Sprint Cup Series and the No. 18 Camry part-time in the Xfinity Series for Joe Gibbs Racing...
ProfessionRace Car Driver
Date of Birth18 November 1980
CityTampa, FL
sports long racing
I can assure you that most of the drivers have a lot of things they'd like to do, but racing keeps them from doing that. We're so restricted because of our long season. We have a one-and-a-half-month period where we get to do what we want - that's shorter than any other sport. It makes it tough, for sure.
deal finish gaining kept pit proud running year
This is the way that we've been running all year long -- just haven't been able to finish the deal off. I'm so proud of my pit crew. They just kept gaining and gaining (positions on pit road).
autographs commercial definitely front input seems tells
There's definitely been a lot of input from the fans. It seems everyone who comes to get autographs tells me which commercial they like the best. It definitely makes it a little more comfortable in front of the cameras.
bottom held quarter rear saying wrecked
Not at all. I went to the bottom and held my line. How they're saying I wrecked them with my right rear quarter panel, I have no idea.
picked second
That was pretty good, we picked up three-quarters of a second from practice.
figured gain guys help hopefully main respect
That was my main goal. I figured I wouldn't have any help at all and all I wanted to do was gain respect from those guys for the 500. Hopefully we did that.
cup felt offered races rides
After the first 10 races in Busch, I was offered other Cup rides for this year. But I felt I didn't know what I was doing yet in Busch.
panic start stayed wonder wondering
If I see someone else doing something I start to panic and I wonder 'what's going on? Why are they doing that? When Boris stayed out there for as long as he did, I was wondering 'what is he doing? Is there something that he doesn't know or something that we don't know?
racing action like-you
The recent actions by Kyle Busch are not consistent with the values of M&M'S and we're very disappointed. Like you, we hold those who represent our brand to a higher standard and we have expressed our concerns directly to Joe Gibbs Racing.
opportunity doors answers
It's just all about opportunities, knocking doors down and see who answers.
believe home years
I can't believe it. Two years ago I was here as a visitor of Dale Earnhardt Jr. and he invited me to come and stay in his motor home. That's the only other time I've been to victory lane.
goal want achieve
It makes me very hard on myself when I don't achieve the goals I want to achieve. But I feel like that's what makes me as good as I am - I push myself to be better, constantly.
years race track
There's no other place I'd rather have it than here in Mexico. It's a race track that I was looking forward to going to from the time we were here last year. This track just fits my driving style perfectly.
sports heart cutting
The Showdown is a great way to bring attention to these historic Virginia tracks where many NASCAR drivers cut their teeth in stock car racing, including myself. Tracks like South Boston and Langley are the heart of the sport and draw a great crowd to our Showdown events.