{"id":284593,"date":"2025-11-15T11:33:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T11:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/284593\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T11:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T11:33:13","slug":"denny-hamlin-wouldve-begged-to-quit-if-he-won-nascar-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/284593\/","title":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin would&#8217;ve begged to quit if he won NASCAR title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> In an alternate reality where he won the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series championship, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nascar\/players\/denny_hamlin\/25408\" class=\"yard_link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denny Hamlin<\/a> would&#8217;ve retired on the spot.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what Hamlin, who turns 45 on Nov. 18 and is still searching for his first NASCAR title, said on the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JyW8Humhyl0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">episode\u00a0<\/a>of his podcast, &#8220;Actions Detrimental with Denny Hamlin,&#8221; on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Denny Hamlin could&#8217;ve went out on top<\/p>\n<p>Hamlin came up just shy of the 2025 Cup Series championship, and despite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nascar\/articles\/denny_hamlin_numb_after_losing_nascar_championship_in_final_laps\/s1_13132_43005933\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">comments\u00a0<\/a>he made after the heartbreaking defeat, he will race in 2026. Hamlin&#8217;s contract with Joe Gibbs Racing runs through 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Listen, I would&#8217;ve begged Joe (Gibbs) to let me quit had I won that race,&#8221; Hamlin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JyW8Humhyl0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">said<\/a>. &#8220;Because it would&#8217;ve been the perfect way for me to go out.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an alternate reality where he won the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series championship, Denny Hamlin would&#8217;ve retired on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-284593","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-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284593","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=284593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}