{"id":621723,"date":"2026-04-22T19:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/621723\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T19:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T19:50:14","slug":"dale-earnhardt-jr-weighs-in-on-denny-hamlin-kyle-busch-spat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/621723\/","title":{"rendered":"Dale Earnhardt Jr. weighs in on Denny Hamlin, Kyle Busch spat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dale Earnhardt Jr. believes something was lost in translation in the back-and-forth between Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch.<\/p>\n<p>The two-time Cup Series champion took exception to comments Hamlin made about him last week on the Actions Detrimental podcast. Specifically, Hamlin pondered if this is the end for Busch as a contender at the highest levels and suggested that Busch needs to consistently outrun teammate Austin Dillon to even make the case that he deserves a championship caliber ride next year after his current deal with Richard Childress Racing ends.<\/p>\n<p>But Hamlin also called Busch one of the greatest of all time and said he couldn&#8217;t compared to his former teammate in talent. Busch took shots at Hamlin over the weekend at Kansas, suggesting that he was &#8216;bashed&#8217; and that they should trade cars before Hamlin talks again.<\/p>\n<p>Busch said he could &#8216;make life hell&#8217; for Hamlin on the race track.<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on his own Dale Jr. Download podcast, Earnhardt believes wholeheartedly that Busch didn&#8217;t consume the full argument Hamlin was trying to make.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll bet you $100,000 his ass ain\u2019t watched the 13 minutes of it,\u201d Earnhardt\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HcNH1KGJQKw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> of Busch\u2019s reaction to Hamlin\u2019s comments. \u201cIf anything, he probably got a text from somebody. Someone said, \u2018Man, this guy\u2019s talking shit about you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With that said, Earnhardt said it&#8217;s hard to watch Busch struggle right now, especially with a new crew chief that most recently won races and a championship at JR Motorsports with Justin Allgaier in Jim Pohlman.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s odd to watch them struggle the way they have,\u201d he said, pointing to Busch\u2019s ongoing issues week after week. \u201cJim Pohlman went over there from here to be the crew chief. They came out of the gate with a great performance and qualifying at Daytona. It\u2019s kind of been tough ever since.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKyle keeps having problems every week. I think they would probably run just as good as Austin Dillon if they weren\u2019t having the issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Like Hamlin, Earnhardt also praised the resume before moving on to the next topic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKyle is a first-ballot Hall of Famer. Dude is still a badass race car driver,\u201d Earnhardt said. \u201cHe\u2019s just not having a good time right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>            We want your opinion!<\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-auto\">What would you like to see on Motorsport.com?<\/p>\n<p>            <a href=\"#\" class=\"ms-link text-link font-bold\">Take our 5 minute survey.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mt-1 text-body\">&#8211; The Motorsport.com Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dale Earnhardt Jr. believes something was lost in translation in the back-and-forth between Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,14056,233303,3932,1435,73229,8661,233304,634,3628,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-621723","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-dale-earnhardt-jr","11":"tag-dale-earnhardt-jr-weighs-in-on-denny-hamlin","12":"tag-denny-hamlin","13":"tag-kansas","14":"tag-kansas-speedway","15":"tag-kyle-busch","16":"tag-kyle-busch-spat","17":"tag-nascar","18":"tag-nascar-cup","19":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621723","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=621723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}