{"id":63590,"date":"2025-08-12T09:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T09:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/63590\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T09:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T09:07:07","slug":"denny-hamlin-suggests-next-gen-nascar-hate-levels-reaching-dangerous-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/63590\/","title":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin suggests Next Gen NASCAR ‘hate levels’ reaching dangerous high"},"content":{"rendered":"

After this Sunday\u2019s NASCAR<\/a> Cup Series race at Watkins Glen International, Denny Hamlin believes fan disapproval of the Next Gen car is reaching \u201chate levels\u201d that haven\u2019t been seen in the sport in nearly two decades. Hamlin compared the fan dislike of the Next Gen car to that of the original Car of Tomorrow with the wing. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think that we have a fundamental car problem. It is no doubt a problem. Everyone that has ever driven it has said it\u2019s a problem,\u201d Hamlin said on Monday\u2019s Actions Detrimental<\/a> podcast. \u201cI believe that the Next Gen car is reaching hate levels of the COT (Car of Tomorrow) with the wing. From fans \u2014 I think they\u2019re starting to dislike this car as much as the drivers that have to drive it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The COT, which succeeded the popular Generation 4, was used in the Cup Series from 2007-2012. It was unpopular amongst fans and drivers, and NASCAR introduced the Generation 6 in 2013. In 2022, the Next Gen car was born. <\/p>\n

We\u2019re now in year four of the seventh-generation car, and it hasn\u2019t exactly become a favorite of both fans and drivers. Its performance on short tracks and road courses has been panned, though it generally produces entertaining racing on intermediate tracks.<\/p>\n

Denny Hamlin: NASCAR \u2018has made some horrible decisions\u2019<\/p>\n

Sunday\u2019s race at Watkins Glen left many fans frustrated, leading to Hamlin\u2019s comments. As he sees it, NASCAR \u201chas made some horrible decisions\u201d over the years. He wonders if those decisions are beginning to catch up. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve just steadily progressed our way back and back and back and back and taken horsepower away more and more and more,\u201d Hamlin said. \u201cThese are 10th floor decisions and let\u2019s just say us drivers are on the third floor. No business is immune to bad decisions. I think that the NASCAR business has made some horrible decisions over the last given amount of time and eventually, it catches up.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t just say, \u2018This is the direction I wanna go.\u2019 \u2018Well, why?\u2019 \u2018Well, this is the direction I wanna go,\u2019 and not eventually have to pay for that. You\u2019re going to have to pay for your bad decisions at some point. And this could be said for lots of things that have happened in those offices. We\u2019ll just see how it goes.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After this Sunday\u2019s NASCAR Cup Series race at Watkins Glen International, Denny Hamlin believes fan disapproval of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-63590","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-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63590","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=63590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}