Denny Hamlin blames Bubba Wallace for Daytona pileup crash

Simply 27 laps into the common season finale at Daytona Worldwide Speedway, an enormous wreck collected a couple of dozen vehicles, together with bubble driver Alex Bowman.

The wreck started when Bubba Wallace, Joey Logano, and Kyle Busch received tangled collectively within the tri-oval, and finally ended Wallace’s night time, but additionally collected 23XI Racing teammate Riley Herbst, in addition to his boss, Denny Hamlin.

On his weekly podcast, Actions Detrimental, Hamlin analyzed the wreck and the foundation reason for it.

“It seemed prefer to me that Bubba simply squeezed these two guys under him down,” defined Hamlin. “You may simply see that they are there, two vehicles on the within. “I do not know what Freddie [Kraft, #23 spotter] was calling. Perhaps he was saying three broad prime or not — I am unsure, however he [Wallace] simply squeezed on down there and there was no room. So he ended up wrecking himself, and clearly just a few others.”

Some talked about how Kyle Larson was pushing Wallace, and he might have had an influence on the place that No. 23 ended up in that scenario. Nonetheless, Hamlin appeared to disagree.

“I am taking a look at it and I do not suppose so. The #5 [Larson] was already on him shut, however no. That is simply the #23 not clear. It is simply a type of not clear moments.”

Hamlin soldiered on to a Twenty fifth-place end, however it continues a streak of dangerous finishes for him on the iconic superspeedway. He crashed on the ultimate lap of the 2025 Daytona 500 whereas battling for the win, and he has zero finishes greater than seventeenth in all eight Subsequent Gen period races on the observe. That’s fairly the shock, as Hamlin is a three-time winner of the Daytona 500 with the earlier technology of automobile.