Denny Hamlin Gives Major Update on Tyler Reddick New Contract as 2026 Domination Continues

Joe Gibbs Racing veteran Denny Hamlin has shared his thoughts on 23XI Racing’s new deal for Tyler Reddick after dream start to 2026.

Denny Hamlin Gives Major Update on Tyler Reddick New Contract as 2026 Domination Continues

Denny Hamlin and Tyler Reddick (Via IMAGO)

23XI Racing and Tyler Reddick had a dream start to the 2026 season. He won four of the first six races of the season, including a historical sweep of the first three events of the year. The veteran has proved he is the driver team owners Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin should bank on to secure them the championship.

After the No:45 Toyota Camry racers latest triumph at Darlington Raceway, the 23XI owners were asked about the new contract for the star racer. His current deal is set to run out soon and the TRD needs to offer him a mega multi-year deal. Hamlin has confirmed that they are working on the new contract and it would be announced soon.

Are you and MJ backing up the Brink’s truck yet for him?

DH: That will be done soon. He deserves everything he gets. He’s just done a phenomenal job.

Denny Hamlin reported via Jeff Gluck on X.   

In the same media session, the Joe Gibbs Racing veteran Denny Hamlin also shared his thoughts on 23XI Racing strong start to the new season. He asserted that they are now having a start of the season the big-3 dreams of and highlighted that the team signing the right personals to their crew over the years played a key role in the success.

It was a dream, but it’s hard. Even legacy teams dream of starts like this. For a start-up team to think about it, it’s probably a little pie in the sky, but it all comes together. Eventually you just keep putting really good people together, and you’re going to have these types of results…

Denny Hamlin said after Darlington race.

Denny Hamlin shared his thoughts on how new aero-package affected racing at Darlington

In the latest episode of his Actions Detrimental podcast, Denny Hamlin talked about how the new aero package used at Darlington changed the race. Many predicted a chaotic event with the extra horsepower and new package changing the dynamic. It didn’t playout exactly as many expected.

Denny Hamlin (via Imago)
Denny Hamlin (via Imago)

Talking about the factor on his podcast, Hamlin admitted that the new package hasn’t fixed the overtaking issues, but admitted that only the good cars of the day was able to make moves. The sport needs work more to fix the track position racing.

It wasn’t drastically different. It was still very difficult to pass. That’s just this is a narrow track, so there’s just not many places to go to avoid the wake of the car in front of you. I thought the good cars could pass, and the mediocre ones were hanging on. But it was still in track position type racing. I just don’t know, you know, whether you’re really going to get away from that, no matter what you do, especially with as close in speed as all the cars are.

Denny Hamlin said.

It would be interesting to see how everything is going to playout for the teams in the coming days, when NASCAR goes to more tracks with the new package. In the meantime, the sanctioning body needs to more R&D in the coming days to make the sport better.

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