In NASCAR when is it ‘spirited, aggressive racing’ or ‘dirty driving?’
In Hamlin’s view, the tipping point to the “boys, have at it” era came at Martinsville Speedway in November of 2015. After crashing with Joey Logano in the final laps at Kansas two weeks earlier, the lapped car of Matt Kenseth slowed and waited for front-runner Logano late in the Martinsville race. He turned right and drove Logano hard into the Turn 1 wall, out of the race. He was immediately parked and suspended from the next two races.
Hamlin has a long history of well-publicized on-track run-ins. His most recent was eight days ago at Pocono, where he appeared to put fellow front-runner Kyle Larson into the wall on a late restart. Earlier this year, Hamlin clearly put Larson – leading at the time – against the backstretch wall at Kansas on the last lap. Hamlin defended his Pocono move by saying it was a split-second decision to take a spot he thought was available.
Strange as it may seem, it was two-time champion Kyle Busch who came to Hamlin’s defense over the Pocono incident. “If you’re Kyle in that situation, do you just lift out of the gas once Denny gets alongside of you?” he said. “No. You have to put trust and faith into the guy; that he’s going to run you as you would expect to be run and not have to lift. If Larson lifts and brushes the wall, he loses eight spots on that straightaway.
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