{"id":179089,"date":"2025-09-30T02:34:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/179089\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T02:34:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:34:07","slug":"whats-going-on-with-denny-hamlin-bubba-wallace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/179089\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s going on with Denny Hamlin, Bubba Wallace?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1759199646_747_denny-hamlin.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"denny hamlin nascar\" width=\"555\" height=\"312\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1759199646_747_denny-hamlin.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a>Denny Hamlin. Photo: Meg Oliphant\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Denny Hamlin drives for Joe Gibbs Racing. He\u2019s also the co-owner of 23XI Racing, which has Bubba Wallace efforting to stay alive in the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series playoffs.<\/p>\n<p>So, when Hamlin bumped Wallace into the wall toward the end of Sunday\u2019s Hollywood Casino 400, that was going to get folks\u2019 attention, including Wallace\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/augustafreepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/bubba-wallace.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"bubba wallace\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/bubba-wallace-400x225.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a>Bubba Wallace. Photo: \u00a9 Grindstone Media Group\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n<p>The word \u201cdumbass\u201d may have entered the chat, for instance.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace is, right now, on the outside looking in, with one race left in the Round of 12, which becomes the Round of 8 after this weekend\u2019s Charlotte ROVAL.<\/p>\n<p>Rod Mullins will be down in Charlotte covering the race for AFP.<\/p>\n<p>I chatted with Rod on today\u2019s podcast to get into this Denny Hamlin-Bubba Wallace story, among other things, including the rumors that NASCAR is going to shutter its current playoff format to go back to the way things were down pre-2004.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Kenseth comes up as we talk through that one.<\/p>\n<p>Also, discussion of declining NASCAR ratings, and how politics is playing a role in that.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin. Photo: Meg Oliphant\/Getty Images Denny Hamlin drives for Joe Gibbs Racing. He\u2019s also the co-owner of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[2331,49,48,3932,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-179089","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-bubba-wallace","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-denny-hamlin","12":"tag-nascar","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}