Denny Hamlin entered the 2026 Chase as the No. 1 seed, but his championship campaign got off to a shaky start at Darlington. A difficult Cook Out Southern 500 left the Joe Gibbs Racing driver 18th at the finish, hardly the statement he would have wanted from the opening race. Yet Hamlin is not letting one disappointing result shake his confidence. With nine races remaining and a familiar collection of tracks ahead, he believes recent success has given his No. 11 team a valuable advantage.
“All these Chase tracks we’ve been good at within the last year. It’s not like we were really good there three years ago or five years ago. All these tracks…
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