{"id":107746,"date":"2025-08-25T01:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T01:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/107746\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T01:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T01:21:08","slug":"denny-hamlin-fires-back-after-mamba-smiths-daytona-prank-in-viral-x-social-media-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/107746\/","title":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin fires back after Mamba Smith’s Daytona prank in viral X social media exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASCAR personality\u00a0Dylan “Mamba” Smith and veteran driver Denny Hamlin<\/a> shared a hilarious and light-hearted moment on social media following a prank during the driver introductions at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the regular season finale, Smith faked a handshake with Hamlin, running his hand through his own hair instead of shaking Hamlin’s hand. The two shared a laugh with each other as the driver continued across the stage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The exchange was seen by 50,000 people when Smith shared the video on X (formerly Twitter), but the driver wasn’t going to let him have the last laugh.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Following the sharing of the video on the social media website, a light-hearted argument flared between the two<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

“[You’re] so cool bro,” Hamlin replied sarcastically. “Don’t let the ratios get to you.”<\/p>\n

Smith fired back with confidence: “See you on the stage next week Champ.”<\/p>\n

Hamlin then escalated: “[It’s] 3x Southern 500 champ to you. Make sure you get it right when you say my name.”<\/p>\n

Smith delivered what appeared to be the final word with a cutting response: “You’ll get what you get, smile, and do your princess wave regardless.”<\/p>\n

The exchange came after the superspeedway race, which saw a number of drivers taken out in Stage 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“It looked like to me that Bubba [Wallace] just squeezed those two guys below him down,” Hamlin said on his podcast,\u00a0Actions Detrimental<\/a>. “You could just see that they’re there, two cars on the inside.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know what Freddie [Kraft, #23 spotter] was calling. Maybe he was saying three wide top or not – I’m not sure, but he [Wallace] just squeezed on down there and there was no room. So he ended up wrecking himself, and obviously a few others.”<\/p>\n

Hamlin finished 25th, a disappointing result for a man who has three race wins at the Daytona 500.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

In this article<\/p>\n

Be the first to know and subscribe for real-time news email updates on these topics<\/p>\n

Subscribe to news alerts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR personality\u00a0Dylan “Mamba” Smith and veteran driver Denny Hamlin shared a hilarious and light-hearted moment on social media…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[63813,34059,11050,70985,425,6327,5025,99,5026],"class_list":["post-107746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-daytona-ii","tag-daytona-international-speedway","tag-denny-hamlin","tag-denny-hamlin-fires-back-after-mamba-smiths-daytona-prank-in-viral-x-social-media-exchange","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-cup","tag-nosyndicate","tag-sports","tag-trendingteam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}