Before the AdventHealth 400 in Kansas a few weeks back, Denny Hamlin was open about his chances of winning his first Championship title in 19 years of racing in the sport’s highest echelon. The seven-time Pocono champion believes that 2024 will be his year to win at Phoenix.
“This is it.” “This is the year,” Hamlin shouted, according to Crash. “This is the year it’s going to happen.”
Hamlin has won 54 races in his career, including one in the prestigious Coca-Cola 600 and three each in the Daytona 500 and Southern 500. However, the American has consistently failed to win the championship. The closest Hamlin got to winning a championship was in 2010.
Despite leading a race-high 190 laps, a miscalculated pit stop hurled him backward to a 12th-place finish. That year, he fared as the runner-up to 7X Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson on points.In 2023, the #11 driver got derailed from the Championship rumble at Martinsville and Team Penske star Ryan Blaney took the title home and advanced to the Championship 4.Denny Hamlin’s most recent win came in the Würth 400 at Dover Motor Speedway in Delaware, his third of the current season. Today, he stands third on overall points with 447 points to his name, just below his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, Martin Truex Jr.
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