{"id":67233,"date":"2025-08-13T19:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T19:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/67233\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T19:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T19:39:07","slug":"denny-hamlin-says-whats-on-every-nascar-fans-lips-about-next-gen-car-motorsport-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/67233\/","title":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin says what’s on every NASCAR fans’ lips about Next Gen car – Motorsport – Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"

The noise surrounding the NASCAR<\/a> Cup Series\u2019 Next Gen cars is getting louder by the day as fans and drivers continue to speak out<\/a> against the various issues plaguing this generation of cars, hampering races in the process.<\/p>\n

Denny Hamlin<\/a>, who has not been coy in his criticism of the cars, has once again been highly critical, this time in response to Sunday\u2019s Go Bowling At The Glen, won with ease by road course maestro Shane van Gisbergen<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 44-year-old, who has four wins this season in the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, believes NASCAR has \u201ca fundamental car problem,\u201d even claiming the issues are so severe the Series is reaching levels of frustration not seen since the Gen 5 \u201cCar of Tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone that has ever driven it has said it\u2019s a problem,\u201d Hamlin claimed on his Actions Detrimental<\/a> podcast. \u201cI believe that the Next Gen car is reaching hate levels of the COT with the wing. From fans, and just, I think they\u2019re starting to dislike this car as much as the drivers that have to drive it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamlin recalled how the COT, which was used between 2007 and 2012, represented \u201ca step back in the performance of race-ability versus the Gen 4 car that I started with,\u201d specifically citing how tough they were to pass.<\/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 decisions that get made from beyond our offices\u202610th floor decisions, and let\u2019s just say us drivers are on the third floor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hate to say it. 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

DON’T MISS<\/p>\n

NASCAR has been toying with the idea of upping the horsepower available in the Next Gen cars, even conducting a test at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in July. Unfortunately, it appears this test\u2019s outcomes weren’t necessarily overly positive<\/a>, with Rick Ware Racing competition director Tommy Baldwin revealing on the Door Bumper Clear podcast that, \u201cThey did try some stuff at New Hampshire couple of weeks ago in a test and they were surprised on some things that happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked whether or not these \u2018surprises\u2019 were positive, he replied, \u201cI don’t think it was in a good way, which is a surprise to me because I’ve said before, ‘100 horsepower would make a difference,’ and I don\u2019t think it made much of a difference to move the needle.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite these concerns and criticism from the likes of Kevin Harvick and Dale Earnhardt Jr.<\/a>, not all are so downbeat on the Next Gen cars. Recently, Kyle Petty claimed that complaints about cars have been going on for over four decades<\/a>, adding, \u201cThis is the racing we have. We have to embrace it, enjoy it, we\u2019re seeing some spectacular stuff on the racetrack, and I think it\u2019s only going to get better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The noise surrounding the NASCAR Cup Series\u2019 Next Gen cars is getting louder by the day as fans…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67234,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,42676,3932,2332,634,42675,82,926],"class_list":["post-67233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-car-of-tomorrow","tag-denny-hamlin","tag-motorsport-section","tag-nascar","tag-next-gen-cars","tag-sports","tag-toyota"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67233","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=67233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67233\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}