‘It was just poor judgment,’ Kyle Larson on Denny Hamlin’s insensitive tweet aiming at his Asian heritage

‘It was just poor judgment,’ Kyle Larson on Denny Hamlin’s insensitive tweet aiming at his Asian heritage

Kyle Larson and Denny Hamlin

Following the 2022 Talladega Cup Race last week Joe Gibbs Racing star Denny Hamlin, who secured Toyota’s first win in the Next-Gen car era, found himself in hot water as he posted a clip from the famous American Cartoon series, the “Family Guy” as troll aimed at the reigning champions driving.

But Denny Hamlin was quickly called out on Twitter for his racially insensitive Tweet as it depicted a common Racial Stereotype in the US which claim Asians are bad drivers. Twitter was quick to connect the dots as Kyle Larson’s mother is Asian and accused Denny Hamlin of a racist tweet.

After seven hours of putting up the tweet, Denny Hamlin came forth removed it from the social media platform, and reluctantly apologized for it claiming he was unaware of the sensitive part so, he posted it as he found it funny.

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Now Kyle Larson, whom the Tweet was aimed at came forth and gave his opinion on the whole scenario.

Kyle Larson on Denny Hamlin’s racist tweet

Kyle Larson
Kyle Larson

Kyle Larson, who is close friends with Denny Hamlin acknowledged that he was not personally offended by Denny Hamlin’s tweet adding he appreciate both NASCAR’s decision to give sensitivity training and Denny Hamlin going through it. He went on to add that it was a poor judgment from Hamlin and said that one has to be very careful with their words these days when he is speaking in public.

“I personally wasn’t offended by it,” Kyle Larson said.

“I think NASCAR did what they had to do and I appreciate Denny going through the steps to learn from that. Obviously, it was just poor judgment on his part. I think being in the position that we’re in, you have to be very careful with what you put out into the public,” Kyle Larson said.

Kyle Larson went on to say that Denny Hamlin will learn a lot from the incident in the next couple of months and added that he believes it’s time for everyone to move past the incident and focus on racing. He once again reiterated that there are millions of people that a tweet like that could offend.

“I know he’ll learn a lot from it here in the next couple of weeks. I think we’re all ready to move past it and get back focused on racing. There are millions of other people, that a tweet like that could offend,” Kyle Larson added.

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