Denny Hamlin Exposes Why He Dumped Ty Gibbs at New Hampshire

Joe Gibbs Racing veteran Denny Hamlin explains the real reason behind his beef and crash involving teammate Ty Gibbs at Loudon.

Denny Hamlin Exposes Why He Dumped Ty Gibbs at New Hampshire

Ty Gibbs and Denny Hamlin (Via IMAGO)

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The NASCAR Cup Series race on Sunday at New Hampshire marked the beginning of unwanted beef among Joe Gibbs Racing drivers Denny Hamlin and Ty Gibbs. The former, who is wingiest racer in JGR history, dumped his team owners’ grandson during an intense dule and later made some bold comments on post-race interview as well as on his podcast.

On the latest episode of the Actions Detrimental podcast, Denny Hamlin addressed the claims from a group of fans that he could have overtaken the No:54 Toyota without spinning him out. The veteran pointed out that Ty Gibbs made it pretty hard to make a pass as a Next-Gen car and he isn’t that superior to race to make that move without making contact.

You can see that we were making contact when he pulled down to the middle lane right in front of me. We were already together, like it took nothing. And no, I wish I was that good. If that’s the case, I wouldn’t have wrecked Chase Elliott when I tried to move him up the racetrack back in 2017. It all depends on what point of the racetrack you’re at.

Denny Hamlin said via Actions Detrimental.

He went into explain how the whole drama played out, and what made him make the contact. Hamlin pointed out that Ty Gibbs deserve some blame for the incident, as he moved down the middle lase in order to cut the nose of. It was a wrong move considering how close they were racing, as the aero creates a lift, affecting the cars balance.

I was pretty much there into Turn 1, and then he moved down to the middle lane to cut the nose off. If you cut across someone’s nose, especially if they’re running really close to you, it will make their car kind of lift up and take off.

Denny Hamlin added.

Further talking about the point, Hamlin pointed out that the primary motive of Ty Gibbs was to aero block him as well as teammate Christopher Bell, with the aggressive defensive moves. He made contact with the No:54 car from behind to ensure this doesn’t happen and unfortunately the shove was big enough spun him out, ruining his race.

I think he was just trying to cut across my nose to make me lose air, just to aero block me. I was so close to him, I’m like, ‘Hell no. You’re not going to do that.’ I tried to shove him up to the net lane to get my position. Unfortunately, it spun him out.

Denny Hamlin asserted.

Denny Hamlin reminds Ty Gibbs he is a part-owner of the team he is hurting

In the same conversation, Denny Hamlin explained how tough it is to win races in the current era and how important is having supportive teammates. He pointed out every man for himself attitude will only cause chaos and that needs to be addressed. Hamlin also reminded Gibbs that he wants his three teammates to win the title, considering his name is on the race shop building.

Denny Hamlin and Ty Gibbs
Denny Hamlin and Ty Gibbs (Via IMAGO)

We might as well just hang this thing up because it’s too difficult to win naturally, much less if we’re going to have the ‘everyone just races for themselves, and it doesn’t matter whether you’re racing for a championship or not.’ From my standpoint, I would think that Ty would want one of us to win a championship. His name’s on the building.

Denny Hamlin said.

As the three times Daytona 500 winner pointed out, Ty Gibbs should have been more rational about his approach towards racing his championship favorite teammates. The JGR management, especially Joe Gibbs needs to step up and have a conversation with their drivers, reminding them the big picture.

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