{"id":454372,"date":"2026-02-05T00:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/454372\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T00:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T00:20:08","slug":"denny-hamlin-to-race-2026-nascar-season-despite-shoulder-injury-family-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/454372\/","title":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin to race 2026 NASCAR season despite shoulder injury, family tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denny Hamlin said he will compete in the 2026 NASCAR Cup season despite an ongoing shoulder issue.<\/p>\n<p>Hamlin&#8217;s shoulder problems began when he tore his labrum and underwent surgery on his right rotator cuff in the 2023-24 offseason. His shoulder was slow to heal, and Hamlin said he aggravated the injury in late December when he fell while surveying the damage from a house fire in Stanley, North Carolina, that killed his father, Dennis, and left his mother, Mary Lou, critically injured.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Hamlin, 45, spoke with reporters on Feb. 4 before the Cook Out Clash at Bowman Gray Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin said he will compete in the 2026 NASCAR Cup season despite an ongoing shoulder issue. Hamlin&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,3932,634,3628,22865,186612,82,18810],"class_list":["post-454372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-denny-hamlin","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup","tag-north-carolina","tag-shoulder-problems","tag-sports","tag-stanley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454372","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=454372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}