{"id":377872,"date":"2025-12-30T19:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T19:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/377872\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T19:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T19:35:10","slug":"father-of-star-nascar-driver-dies-in-house-fire-mother-hospitalized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/377872\/","title":{"rendered":"Father of star NASCAR driver dies in house fire, mother hospitalized"},"content":{"rendered":"

Officials have confirmed that the father of NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin died in a house fire over the weekend. <\/a><\/p>\n

According to a news release from the Gaston County Office of Emergency Management and Fire Service in North Carolina, Dennis Hamlin, 75 died at a hospital after a fire destroyed a two-story home near Stanley on Sunday. <\/p>\n

Hamlin\u2019s mother, Mary Lou Hamlin, 69, was critically injured in the blaze, officials said. She was taken to Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Burn Center in Winston-Salem, where she was being treated. <\/p>\n

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

Hamlin has 60 NASCAR Cup Series victories in his career and is widely regarded as the greatest driver in NASCAR history to never have won a championship.<\/p>\n

NASCAR\u2019s 2006 Cup Series rookie of the year and three-time Daytona 500 champion, finished second in the 2025 standings, losing to champion Kyle Larson by four points.<\/p>\n

He won six races and had 14 top five finishes this season. Only legends like Dale Earnhardt, Mark Martin. Kevin Harvick, Jimmie Johnson, Darrell Waltrip and Jeff Gordon have more Top 5 points finishes.<\/p>\n

Hamlin also co-owns the 23XI Racing NASCAR team with NBA legend Michael Jordan and was named one of NASCAR\u2019s 75 Greatest Drivers in 2023.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Hamlin told the Associated Press that his father was battling a serious illness. <\/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 said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials have confirmed that the father of NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin died in a house fire over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-377872","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\/377872","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=377872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}