Sign up to our NASCAR newsletter here.<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cMolly was super upset, like right when we came off of pit road, she said Molly started losing it, like \u2018why is he 10th?\u2019 So I just tried to maintain my composure as much as I could for them to kind of teach them one of the life lessons of, you\u2019re going to face things that are not fair sometimes. And that\u2019s what I did tell them.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is life, and you better get used to it that things are not always going to happen as planned. Some things will happen to you that are going to be unfair at times, but that\u2019s sports. That\u2019s how it goes. We can just chalk it up to, \u2018well that\u2019s sports and you just got unlucky there or maybe we made a bad call.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the end, they didn\u2019t really want to hear any of that, for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the wake of the loss, speculation was rife over whether Hamlin would retire, especially after he himself said that in the moment, he felt like never racing again.\u00a0He had initially shut down rumors of retirement, instead claiming his way of moving on is to try again.<\/p>\n
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\u201cPrepared as good as I could coming into the weekend, and my team gave me a fantastic car,\u201d Hamlin said. \u201cJust didn’t work out. I was just praying that no caution came out\u2026 had one there, and that’s racing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin tried to \u201cmaintain my composure\u201d as his partner Jordan Fish and his two daughters were in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,3932,121067,2332,634,129034,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-283923","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-denny-hamlin","11":"tag-jordan-fish","12":"tag-motorsport-section","13":"tag-nascar","14":"tag-nascar-cup-championship","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283923","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=283923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}