{"id":175530,"date":"2025-09-23T05:09:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T05:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/175530\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T05:09:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T05:09:14","slug":"denny-hamlin-wants-joe-gibbs-racing-to-handle-ty-gibbs-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/175530\/","title":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin wants Joe Gibbs Racing to handle Ty Gibbs conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"

The general message from Denny Hamlin<\/a> on his Actions Detrimental podcast about the incident with Ty Gibbs on Sunday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway<\/a> was not much different than what he conveyed immediately afterwards.<\/p>\n

In bullet point form, his takeaways haven’t changed 12 hours later.<\/p>\n

Gibbs was racing Hamlin and Christopher Bell<\/a> way too hard, way too early, for inconsequential positions
\nHamlin and Bell are trying to win a championship for the company bearing his name
\nIt\u2019s a matter than needs to be adjudicated by company leadership and not the drivers<\/p>\n

Gibbs had held up Bell and Hamlin for over 10 laps until Lap 111 when it finally boiled over in the form of a decisive incident that sent the No. 54 into the wall and out of the race.<\/a> This remains a matter of etiquette because Hamlin and Bell are chasing a championship and were being prevented by their non-playoff teammate from acquiring stage points that could prove decisive to advancing to the next round.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my mind, he was racing entirely too hard,\u201d Hamlin said on his weekly Dirty Mo Media podcast. \u201cAnd I know this is going to trigger some people about \u2018racing a teammate too hard\u2019 and I agree that everyone should race to win the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were racing at the time for 11th place. We, (Bell) and (Chase Briscoe<\/a>) are all battling and scratching and clawing to try to get stage points, which is going to be life and death for us. It\u2019s the air that we need to move on. I just felt like my teammate should not be the hardest car on the track to pass.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Ty <\/p>\n

Ty Gibbs, Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota<\/p>\n

Photo by: Meg Oliphant \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

To wit, Hamlin even said rival Ross Chastain<\/a>, also a playoff driver, let him go because a lengthy battle outside of the top-10 was not in the best interest of anyone\u2019s big picture.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat Ross thought, more than likely, was that \u2018I am not going to hold him up for this entire 60 lap run so I might as well try to prevent someone else from joining this party\u2019 so he could just line up behind me and keep going,\u201d Hamlin said. \u201cThis is the race craft that I feel like is missing — understanding that situation.<\/p>\n

\u201cCertainly, these things are hard enough to win anyway but if you\u2019re going to have to race your teammates harder than anyone on the track, then this is going to be really tough for any one of us to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamlin said as recently as last year, Joe Gibbs Racing<\/a> had a competition meeting where it was expressed to non-playoff drivers to \u2018cut a break wherever reasonably possible\u2019 to a teammate racing for the championship.<\/p>\n

Working together as a team<\/p>\n

He feels like Gibbs needs to hear that again from senior company leadership.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I want to happen is just leadership stepping in and telling us what to do,\u201d Hamlin said. \u201cIf you want us to race each other cutthroat, no matter what your position is in relation to the standings, we can definitely do that.<\/p>\n

\u201cLike, I expect myself and (Briscoe) and (Bell) to race really, really hard because we’re all battling each other to get above this cut line \u2026 If I get eliminated or (Briscoe) gets eliminated or (Bell) gets eliminated and then we’ve established this \u2018no rules, you guys just do whatever you want to do\u2019 then none of us are going to win.\u201d<\/p>\n

His point is that Hendrick Motorsports<\/a> and Team Penske<\/a>, and their affiliates do a good job of respecting their championship racing teammates, and it\u2019s going to be all the harder for a Gibbs driver to win if they are battling each other in addition to the competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019re going up against that, and not only that, but your teammates being the most difficult ones to pass, we might as well just hang this thing up,\u201d Hamlin said. \u201cIt\u2019s too difficult to win (a championship) naturally, much less, if we\u2019re going to have everyone race for themselves and it doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019re racing for a championship or not.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd from my standpoint, I would think Ty would want one of us to win a championship because it\u2019s his name on the building.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gibbs is the grandson of team owner Joe Gibbs.<\/p>\n

\"Ty <\/p>\n

Ty Gibbs, Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota; Denny Hamlin, Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota<\/p>\n

Photo by: Meg Oliphant \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n

Hamlin also explained all the reasons that he did not intentionally crash Gibbs. He said that Gibbs was air blocking him, and chopping off his nose, repeatedly, and eventually it resulted in the decisive contact.<\/p>\n

This is in addition to Gibbs doing the same thing to Bell before Hamlin caught them both. The contact from Hamlin to Gibbs almost collected Bell as well.<\/p>\n

With a competition meeting scheduled for Monday afternoon, the two drivers have not exchanged texts or phone calls. And Hamlin feels like Coach Gibbs, president Dave Alpern or competition director Chris Gabehart needs to handle it because the drivers simply will not agree.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe challenge is I think that me and Ty are going to have different opinions, therefore you need leadership to step in and say this is how we want it done,\u201d Hamlin said. \u201cAnd then we will play by those rules.\u00a0Whatever those rules are, I will play by those rules, but I’ve been told in the past, \u2018if you’re not in it, you do everything you can to help your teammates that are in it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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