{"id":306389,"date":"2025-11-25T17:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/306389\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T17:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T17:59:09","slug":"denny-hamlins-furious-email-to-nascar-executives-released-motorsport-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/306389\/","title":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin’s furious email to NASCAR executives released – Motorsport – Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denny Hamlin has never been shy about voicing his frustrations, but the newly released email he wrote to NASCAR executives exposes a level of tension that goes far deeper than the usual owner-sanctioning body disagreements.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The message, sent privately by Hamlin<\/a> in 2022 and made public during recent legal proceedings, lays out a raw and unfiltered critique of NASCAR<\/a> chairman Jim France.<\/p>\n

The situation around the email is part of a broader fight over the sport\u2019s financial model, after leaked messages from NASCAR leaders showed just how much they disliked seeing Hamlin compete in the now-defunct Superstar Racing Experience.<\/a><\/p>\n

Teams including 23XI Racing, which Hamlin co-owns with NBA legend Michael Jordan, have argued that NASCAR\u2019s current revenue-sharing structure is unsustainable, saying they bear the overwhelming majority of costs despite being responsible for fielding, funding and operating the entire product on track.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That dispute escalated into a legal battle challenging NASCAR\u2019s control over charters and team economics, and as part of that process, internal emails began surfacing.<\/p>\n

Hamlin wrote that Jim France believes \u201cNASCAR itself is the show,\u201d a philosophy that Hamlin argues diminishes the investment, labor and identity of the teams competing each week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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He wrote, \u201cJim doesn\u2019t really value the current owners of our sport and what we bring. He believes that NASCAR itself is the show. He made a point to say that we have to continue to give OEMs tremendous value because they help support the teams.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI honestly don\u2019t think he understands that every teams OEM deal is different. I told him our 15M number is WITH OEM engine support.”<\/p>\n

Hamlin argued that treating all teams as having the same level of manufacturer backing was both inaccurate and out of touch with the sport\u2019s economics.<\/p>\n

France pointed to the need for teams to reduce expenses, a response Hamlin interpreted as dismissive of owners\u2019 long-term value. \u201cIn the end he just wants someone else to pay our bills, NOT NASCAR,\u201d Hamlin wrote.<\/p>\n

That frustration only grew as the season wore on, especially when Hamlin\u2019s on-track hopes ended in brutal fashion at the championship finale in Phoenix.\u00a0<\/p>\n

After entering the race as a legitimate title contender, Hamlin watched his shot unravel in the closing laps when a late caution reshuffled the field and flipped the strategy against him. Kyle Larson took two tires, Hamlin took four, and the split-second decision cost him the track position he couldn\u2019t regain.<\/p>\n

The 2025 campaign had been one of his strongest, but its ending, another missed championship in a career full of near-misses, added emotional weight to the grievances he laid out in that email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin has never been shy about voicing his frustrations, but the newly released email he wrote to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,3932,114890,2332,634,137235,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-306389","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-jim-france","12":"tag-motorsport-section","13":"tag-nascar","14":"tag-revenue-sharing-dispute","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306389","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=306389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}