UPDATE: In a Monday recording of his “Actions Detrimental” podcast on Dirty Mo Media, Hamlin said that he believes the only way forward for all parties is if members of JGR’s leadership get involved and clarify their expectations for on-track etiquette throughout the postseason.
“What I want to happen is leadership (to) step in and tell us, what do you want us to do?” Hamlin said. “If you want us all to just race each other cut-throat, no matter what your position is in the stature of the standings, we can definitely do that. Like I expect myself and the 19 (Briscoe) and the 20 (Bell) to race really, really hard because we’re all battling each other to get above this cutline or maintain our status above the cutline. If I get eliminated or the 19 gets eliminated or the 20 gets eliminated, and then we’ve established this ‘no rules — you guys just do whatever you wanna do,’ none of us are going to win.”
Hamlin said that in years past, team owner Joe Gibbs has addressed situations like this before, setting Hamlin’s expectations for how they race each other moving forward.
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ORIGINAL POST 9-21-2025: Denny Hamlin called his contact that wrecked teammate Ty Gibbs a “mistake” but raised questions about how Gibbs drove him, noting that he and teammates Christopher Bell and Chase Briscoe “are all trying to win a championship for (the Gibbs) family.”
Ty Gibbs is the only Joe Gibbs Racing driver who did not make the Cup playoffs this season.
The 22-year-old Gibbs, who is in his third full-time Cup season, would only say he was looking forward to the next race when asked by NBC Sports’ Kim Coon about the contact from Hamlin.
Car owner Joe Gibbs, no stranger to teammates upset with one another in his Hall of Fame career as a NFL coach and NASCAR team owner, said: “Those guys are the ones driving the cars, so … those guys will get together on their own and figure it out.”
— NBC Sports —