“It’s too early for me to speculate” — Denny Hamlin remained tight-lipped on Tony Stewart’s suspected NASCAR exit.

Denny Hamlin has disclosed the scope of his awareness of the matter to Stewart Haas Racing. Over the last few weeks, reports about Tony Stewart’s NASCAR team departing the Cup by selling off their charters have risen.

Following a recent Sports Business Journal report claiming that drivers and team members had begun talking to rival teams about job opportunities for next season, Hamlin explained what he understood about the issue.

“Certainly, there are a lot of speculations floating around about what’s going on. I can’t speak to any of them for certain. But it appears like there will be some shifting around. But it’s too early for me to speculate because these drivers are saying, ‘We’re racing for a job,’ and who knows what the team members are thinking right now, but we’ll find out soon,” Hamlin said. [1:08:30]

Hamlin believes that no one at SHR management would want to have “this cloud hanging” over their entire organization for the rest of the season.

After Denny Hamlin refused to speculate and only hinted at ‘some movement’ around SHR in the near future, his co-host Jared Allen wondered if it’s normal for drivers and team members to not know what’s going on in their own team, which is the case with SHR currently.

It’s worth mentioning that Chase Briscoe recently claimed that every race for him feels like an audition, which sheds some light on the level of uncertainty at SHR right now.But Hamlin was of the opinion that “speculation always happens” as he clarified that in SHR’s case it is different because “this is an entire race team” which could be sold off at the end of this season.

He added, “I haven’t seen anything like this certainly but you know there’s some sensitivities likely around it to where you know they can’t say anything yet right?”

What would Denny Hamlin do if his own team was going through what SHR is going through?

Denny Hamlin’s co-host Jared Allen asked the #11 driver that if his own team, 23XI Racing, was going through potentially major changes, would he care to tell Bubba Wallace or Tyler Reddick?Hamlin claimed he would because he wouldn’t want to leave his own team members “in the dark.” However, he also noted a situation in which management would have to act contrarily.

“It might be because plans are fluid and you don’t want to set anyone into a panic mode when in turn nothing will change. Everything is going to be status quo,” Hamlin said. [1:10:20]

The 23XI Racing co-owner believes that in the case of SHR, the management is still considering their options, and that there would be news to tell when it will.Hamlin added that with SHR, one simply has to “wait this out.”