NASCAR<\/a> Cup Series, admitted he took the loss tougher than others because he doesn\u2019t know how many more wins he has left in him. <\/p>\n\u201cMan, it\u2019s so frustrating,\u201d Hamlin said. \u201cI took this one a little tougher just because it\u2019s like, I wanna capitalize. I only got 50 some races left and it\u2019s like, man, I wanna get these wins when I should be winning. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just not happening. The loose wheel at the end of Martinsville \u2014 just a lot of stuff that\u2019s just not going great in the luck category or the create your own luck and not executing category, which is what I chalk most of this up to.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another race got away from Denny Hamlin<\/p>\n
Several races have gotten away from Hamlin in recent years. Just this past month at Martinsville Speedway, Hamlin had the dominant car, leading 292-of-400 laps. A late-race loose wheel impacted him in the final run, and it was Chase Elliott who ended up in Victory Lane. <\/p>\n
Then came Sunday, when Hamlin was almost there to winning his second race of the 2026 season. The caution for Ware changed everything and in overtime, he was unable to defend against Kyle Larson\u2018s aggressive run to the bottom in Turn 1, which put Hamlin in fourth. <\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, obviously it\u2019s not winning. It\u2019s Cody Ware, six laps down wrecking. I don\u2019t know. It just added up,\u201d Hamlin said after the race. \u201cI fell for the same move that [Larson] got me a couple years ago when I was on the inside. I got to learn from those mistakes that I made, not executing those last few laps.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin looked visibly dejected at the end of Sunday\u2019s race at Kansas Speedway. Hamlin led a race-high…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-617616","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\/617616","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=617616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}