Denny Hamlin can inch closer to his first NASCAR Cup Series championship with a stellar performance at Las Vegas.
Luckily for Hamlin, his track record at 1.5-mile ovals in 2026 has been incredible. Hamlin won at the spring Las Vegas race and hasn’t finished worse than fourth at the intermediates. That fourth-place finish came at the first Kansas race of the year, and Hamlin has since taken second at Texas and third at Charlotte, Chicagoland, and the second Kansas race.
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Do the math, and Hamlin has an average finish of 2.67 at the 1.5-mile intermediate tracks. That’s over three places better than the second-ranked driver on the list, William...
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