{"id":663078,"date":"2026-05-11T21:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T21:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/663078\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T21:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T21:37:11","slug":"denny-hamlin-fires-back-at-nascar-after-cody-ware-wreck-this-was-not-acceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/663078\/","title":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin fires back at NASCAR after Cody Ware wreck: ‘This was not acceptable’"},"content":{"rendered":"

With fewer than 10 laps remaining in the NASCAR<\/a> Cup Series race at Watkins Glen, Cody Ware wrecked hard. He wrecked so hard that fan photos from the track<\/a> showed significant damage to one of the walls above a tunnel.<\/p>\n

Yet NASCAR didn\u2019t throw the caution flag. It left many stunned, though the broadcast didn\u2019t show many replays or angles of the wreck initially.<\/p>\n

Some drivers were fuming. Including Denny Hamlin, who weighed in Monday on the Actions Detrimental<\/a> podcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean they didn\u2019t follow a few wrecks that happened, that\u2019s for sure,\u201d Hamlin said. \u201cBut NASCAR has to get better with that. Like I\u2019ve seen their control center at their production studio. There\u2019s absolutely no excuse\u2026 you have cameras pointing in every direction of this racetrack.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor you not to see Cody Ware destroyed in that final corner\u2026 holy cow, man. They need to say something about that. Not just, \u2018We\u2019ll look at it. We\u2019re always looking to improve.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamlin demanded accountability following the Cody Ware incident at Watkins Glen. He said NASCAR needs to take full ownership of absolutely blowing a potential safety issue.<\/p>\n

\u201cTake some accountability on this one,\u201d Hamlin said. \u201cThis was not acceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

That fans didn\u2019t see as much of the Cody Ware incident \u2014 which might have been the hardest impact of the day \u2014 was also an indictment on the FOX broadcast crew. Had the broadcast shown the wreck, would NASCAR have been more likely to throw the caution flag? Hamlin was asked just that question. He wasn\u2019t sure.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s on both of them. It\u2019s on both of them,\u201d he said. \u201cThere\u2019s a director somewhere in there in FOX\u2019s production studio that\u2019s looking at all the cameras. Surely there\u2019s got to be someone.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bottom line is that incidents like the Cody Ware one do represent an actual safety issue for drivers. Hamlin was in disbelief.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause he was sitting\u2026 did you see the cars that were going by him?\u201d Hamlin asked aloud.<\/p>\n

Then the veteran driver of the No. 11 car explained why it was so jarring that NASCAR didn\u2019t throw the caution flag on the Cody Ware incident. Simply put, there are too many eyes on the track for something like that to be missed.<\/p>\n

\u201cNASCAR has these monitors and they have cameras pointing pretty much at every, it should be every corner,\u201d Hamlin said. \u201cI know I\u2019ve seen it on ovals, they\u2019ve got every corner and every angle kind of (set). Because they just don\u2019t have the track workers that they used to have, because they\u2019ve cut. Cut, cut, cut, cut, cut. And so there\u2019s these 16 monitors, it could be 24, 36. It\u2019s a lot. It\u2019s a lot of monitors looking at the racetrack from all these different things to see things that necessarily are not being shown on TV.<\/p>\n

\u201cSomewhere there has to be multiple (people), it can\u2019t be one person. I\u2019m sorry, you can\u2019t look at 24 monitors at one time. There has to be multiple people looking for dramatic events that\u2019s going on that could be a hazard. Call it in. And then it\u2019s got to get called to the next guy and then to the next guy. But you can\u2019t just like, \u2018Oh, we didn\u2019t see that.\u2019 No.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With fewer than 10 laps remaining in the NASCAR Cup Series race at Watkins Glen, Cody Ware wrecked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-663078","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\/663078","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=663078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}