{"id":382778,"date":"2026-01-02T03:46:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T03:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/382778\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T03:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T03:46:17","slug":"nascar-driver-denny-hamlins-father-dies-in-north-carolina-house-fire-nascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/382778\/","title":{"rendered":"Nascar driver Denny Hamlin\u2019s father dies in North Carolina house fire | Nascar"},"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, officials said Monday.<\/p>\n

Firefighters arrived Sunday night at a two-story 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 Hamlin later died from his injuries at a hospital, officials said.<\/p>\n

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

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

Stanley is located about 20 miles (32km) northwest of Charlotte.<\/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 Monday evening.<\/p>\n

Hamlin is one of the marquee drivers in Nascar\u2019s 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\u2019s 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 \u2013 was battling a serious illness, and that he didn\u2019t have much time left to live.<\/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<\/a> brought in part by 23XI Racing, which is owned by Hamlin and Basketball Hall of Famer Michael Jordan. 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":382779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-382778","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\/382778","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=382778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}