{"id":377219,"date":"2025-12-30T12:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/377219\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T12:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T12:03:08","slug":"kyle-busch-other-nascar-drivers-praying-for-denny-hamlin-following-family-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/377219\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyle Busch, other NASCAR drivers praying for Denny Hamlin following family tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The NASCAR community is praying for star driver Denny Hamlin after his father died<\/a> following a house fire on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Dennis Hamlin, Denny\u2019s father, died from injuries suffered after his house caught on fire Sunday evening.<\/p>\n

The Gaston County Office of Emergency Management and Fire Services announced in a news release Monday evening that Dennis Hamlin has died.<\/p>\n

In addition, the update added that Mary Lou Hamlin, who is Dennis Hamlin\u2019s wife and Denny Hamlin\u2019s mother, is in critical condition.<\/p>\n

She has been transferred to Winston-Salem, North Carolina and is \u201cactively being treated,\u201d according to NASCAR.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The fire was reported in Gaston County, N.C., near Charlotte, at 6:19 p.m. Sunday. First responders arrived to the house moments later and found Dennis Hamlin and Mary Lou Hamlin outside of it. They were immediately transported to a local hospital.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Dennis Hamlin later died.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur thoughts and prayers are with Denny and his family,\u201d fellow NASCAR driver Kyle Busch posted on X<\/a>. \u201cIt has really been a tough couple weeks on the NASCAR community.\u201d<\/p>\n

NASCAR driver Ricky Stenhouse Jr. added: \u201cReally praying for my friend DH and the whole Hamlin family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, legendary NASCAR driver Kyle Petty posted that: \u201cAll the prayers from our home are with Denny Hamlin and his family. There are never the right words in times like this. All ours hearts are with you.\u201d<\/p>\n

Officials are still investigating what led to the fire. WCNC in Charlotte reports<\/a> that the fire resulted in a complete loss of the home.<\/p>\n

Denny Hamlin has competed in the NASCAR Cup Series since 2005 and has earned 60 wins over the course of his career. That mark includes three Daytona 500 victories.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe entire NASCAR community is just suffering. I\u2019m so sorry Denny Hamlin,\u201d NASCAR legend Mark Martin posted on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NASCAR community is praying for star driver Denny Hamlin after his father died following a house fire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,146232,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-377219","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-isptsw","11":"tag-nascar","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377219","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=377219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}