Actions Detrimental<\/a> podcast.<\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019ll be honest with you, I don\u2019t think there was a way for us to win the race,\u201d Denny Hamlin said. \u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019m just very like, \u2018Ehh, we finished where we finished.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause I didn\u2019t see a path to us winning and it honestly got started when we were third or second and then had that bad pit stop and went to ninth with 100 to go. That was like, I knew that was, that it was going to be really hard to win the race from that point on.\u201d<\/p>\n
As it turned out, when Denny Hamlin took his four tires with about 20 laps to go, it was a gamble. Would the racing stay green or would a caution shorten the number of laps run green?<\/p>\n
As it turned out, Hamlin was burned by the caution flag coming out. So, too, was Christopher Bell, who also took four tires and, as a result, was hoping for a longer run.<\/p>\n
Denny Hamlin broke down the options. Two tires or four?<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reason I say that is even if, so had we stayed up front, then we\u2019ve got the nerve to go two tires, because now we can control the front of the field,\u201d he said. \u201cBut when I\u2019m running fifth or sixth and I take two tires, OK, well I\u2019m going to restart third, whatever it might be. That\u2019s not my path to winning is. If I take four I\u2019m going to restart where I did, 11th or 12th. There just wasn\u2019t a path. You had to stay further up front to have the ability to make those bold calls.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bell was a little further up front. He went with four tires. He simply ran out of room to make up time thanks to the caution, much to the delight of eventual race winner Ryan Blaney.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did we run, 10 laps?\u201d Hamlin asked. \u201cIf Bell gets a good jump, 20 laps on tires? Now if it was against anyone but Blaney I think he\u2019s good. But when Blaney chose to take the two it was like, \u2018Ugh, that\u2019ll be a hard one to get around.\u2019 Anyone else I think Bell blows right by him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin and his crew made a now-infamous call to take four tires late at Phoenix in 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":528891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-528890","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\/528890","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=528890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}