“We’re running the fine line between entertainment and racing at The Clash now,” Denny Hamlin on why the LA Clash should not be a point-paying race
Denny Hamlin opens up in new his podcast, he talks about racing at The Clash.
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Denny Hamlin, the full-time No:11 JGR Cup driver and co-owner of 23XI Racing, with the basketball legend, Micheal Jordan, has started a podcast. In his new podcast “Actions Detrimental,” Denny Hamlin raised concerns about the racing product of the LA Clash at the Coliseum, after the conclusion of the event’s second edition, which marked the unofficial start of the 75-anniversary edition of the sport.
The Busch Light Clash was hosted at LA Memorial Coliseum, which also hosted the 1932 & 1984 Olympic Games, for the second season in a row. The location usually hosts college football, soccer games, and music concerts. The 25-mile oval temporary asphalt track race main event had 150 laps with 16 cautions—the number of stoppages where duisatersly high compared to the last season, which saw just 5 cautions.
Denny Hamlin has called out NASCAR for the event organzation and race product in his new podcast. He said, “It’s such a different race when you’re running up front than you’re running in the back. Once I got spun back there, it’s awful. It’s the worst racing, it’s not even racing, really, you’re just kind of bumping the car in front of you.”
The American was clearly furious and lashed out. He added, “It just takes one person, two rows back, to just get pissed at somebody, and they just drive in and blatantly take out that person, but if that person doesn’t spin, it’s the car in front that spins.“I’m looking around after the race, and I don’t know who to be mad at. All the people got taken out – nobody was fighting! You don’t even know who was responsible,”.
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Denny Hamlin wants to draw a fine line between racing and entertainment at The Clash
In 2022, NASCAR started 23 cars in the inaugural race, this year, in 2023, they are to start 27 cars. Hamlin believes it is a small space with limits. He discarded the idea of full points race at the track. The drivers are not fond of this tight environment. Hamlin also mentioned he agreed with Joey Lagano, the Team Penske driver. “We’re running the fine line between entertainment and racing at The Clash now,” he said. “Is this going to go to a regular-season points race? I agree with Logano; there’s no way you can put 36 cars on that track, it’s impossible.”
Denny Hamlin wants to spread out and not be confined in a track like that, he explained how they did not have these problems earlier in the heat and last-chance qualifiers as they had only 10 cars each. He knows this might not provide boxing entertainment but wonders if the juice is still worth the squeeze on this. All this being said, Hamlin praises NASCAR’s promotional efforts. The Americans appreciated the music performances by award-winning artists like Wiz Khalifa and Cypress Hill during the pre and mid-race. He believes 40 percent of the people were new fans. However, he just wants to be careful and draw the line between entertainment and racing.
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