{"id":663448,"date":"2026-05-12T01:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/663448\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T01:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:39:19","slug":"denny-hamlin-demands-answers-from-nascar-and-fox-not-acceptable-motorsport-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/663448\/","title":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin demands answers from NASCAR and FOX – ‘not acceptable’ – Motorsport – Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Denny Hamlin fumed at NASCAR and the FOX Sports broadcast regarding the Cody Ware crash (Image: GETTY)<\/p>\n

Denny Hamlin called on NASCAR to \u201cget better\u201d after cameras missed several collisions at Watkins Glen.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, Shane van Gisbergen<\/a> clinched victory in the Go Bowling At The Glen. It was the New Zealand star\u2019s first victory of the season, but his win was overshadowed by the shoddy FOX Sports broadcast<\/a> that saw several on-track issues go unnoticed.<\/p>\n

For example, with 10 laps remaining, Cody Ware crashed hard, leaving significant damage to the walls above a tunnel. However, NASCAR<\/a> didn\u2019t throw the caution flag \u2014 and the broadcast failed to show replays or angles of the incident initially.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, fans were left stunned by the shoddy broadcast and camera angles. Even drivers were angered by the production, including Denny Hamlin<\/a>, who spoke out against it on his ‘Actions Detrimental’ 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

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There was no caution flag brought out even as Cody Ware spun out and crashed (Image: X @rubbinisracing)<\/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

Ware\u2019s crash may have been the hardest impact of the day, which makes FOX Sports\u2019 decision to miss the incident all the more surprising. NASCAR also faces questions, given that the promotion failed even to throw a caution flag.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s on both of them. It\u2019s on both of them,\u201d Hamlin 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

He added: \u201cTake some accountability on this one. This was not acceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ultimately, many different drivers and cars passed Ware\u2019s wrecked car, which represented a genuine safety issue. Hamlin pointed out that there were too many people involved in overseeing the race and the cautions for a crash of that size to be overlooked.<\/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.<\/p>\n

\u201cCut, 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":"Denny Hamlin fumed at NASCAR and the FOX Sports broadcast regarding the Cody Ware crash (Image: GETTY) Denny…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[5983,49,48,3932,36805,2475,634,82,245086],"class_list":["post-663448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-broadcast","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-denny-hamlin","tag-fox-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-nascar","tag-sports","tag-watkins-glen-incident"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663448","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=663448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}