{"id":376615,"date":"2025-12-30T05:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T05:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/376615\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T05:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T05:21:12","slug":"father-of-driver-denny-hamlin-dies-in-weekend-home-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/376615\/","title":{"rendered":"Father of driver Denny Hamlin dies in weekend home fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

The father of NASCAR<\/a> driver Denny Hamlin died and his mother was critically injured after a weekend fire heavily damaged the North Carolina home where they lived.<\/p>\n

Firefighters arrived at a two-storey home near Stanley that was mostly engulfed in fire, with flames showing through the attic, the Gaston County Office of Emergency Management and Fire Services said in a news release. <\/p>\n

Dennis Hamlin, 75, and Mary Lou Hamlin, 69, were found outside the home, suffering from catastrophic injuries, officials said. Dennis later died from his injuries at a hospital.<\/p>\n

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Mary Lou Hamlin was taken to Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Burn Centre in Winston-Salem, where she was being treated, officials said.<\/p>\n

\"Denny<\/p>\n

Denny Hamlin is introduced before the NASCAR Cup Series Championship\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The fire caused the structure to collapse. The cause is under investigation.<\/p>\n

The home is owned by a company called Won One Real Estate that lists Denny Hamlin as its manager, according to local property tax records and a business document filing with the North Carolina Secretary of State\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

Representatives for Hamlin had not responded to requests for comment as of Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Hamlin is one of the marquee drivers in NASCAR’s top circuit, having won 60 NASCAR Cup Series races, including the Daytona 500 three times.<\/p>\n

The 45-year-old driver for Joe Gibbs Racing has yet to win a Cup points championship. He fell short of the title during this season’s final race in Arizona last month.<\/p>\n

Weeks earlier, Hamlin said his father \u2014 who nearly went broke with financial sacrifices to try to get his son into NASCAR \u2014 was battling a serious illness, and that he didn’t have much time left to live.<\/p>\n

\"Denny<\/p>\n

Denny Hamlin\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

\u201cI know for a fact this is my last chance for my dad to see it. I don\u2019t want him going and never getting to see the moment,\u201d Hamlin told The Associated Press.<\/p>\n

Hamlin also mentioned his dad in emotional testimony this month at the start of a federal antitrust trial against NASCAR brought in part by 23XI Racing, which is owned by Hamlin and Basketball Hall of Famer Michael Jordan.<\/p>\n

NASCAR, 23XI Racing and another race team reached a settlement during the trial before jurors ever deliberated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The father of NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin died and his mother was critically injured after a weekend fire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-376615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376615","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=376615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}