During a press conference Friday in front of the #11 hauler, Denny Hamlin admitted he was one of the drivers fined in secret by NASCAR over the past few months. While not directly admitting the incident or that the amount was $50,000, as has been reported, he inferred the fine revolved around a Twitter conversation he’d had with someone after the Nationwide Series race at Chicagoland. “More than likely, it was the Twitter comments that kind of got me in trouble with them,” he said. “Chicago weekend, talking about some of the Nationwide stuff, but most of those conversations were all direct messages to one person.”
“Anybody that follows me on Twitter knows I’m opinionated, and that’s what people follow me for, is just for the quotes here or there.” SI.com has since confirmed the context of that Twitter conversation, a suggestion the racing “was fixed,” is what got Denny Hamlin fined. It was a public exchange between Hamlin and SB Nation’s Jeff Gluck, a blogger, reprinted below: (Twitter names are @dennyhamlin and @jeff_gluck, respectively)(Sports Illustrated)(7-31-2010)
