Upset Kyle Larson Takes Aim at Denny Hamlin and Another Driver at Michigan originally appeared on Athlon Sports.
Kyle Larson finished fifth in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Michigan. His rival Denny Hamlin won the race and tied the Hendrick Motorsports driver and his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Christopher Bell with three wins apiece in the season’s first 15 races.
Early in the second stage, Larson was running in seventh when he pulled up alongside Hamlin on the outside and attempted to pass when the No. 11 car slid up the track and squeezed the No. 5 against the wall, forcing him to lift.
“Look out the [expletive] windshield Denny instead of the [expletive] mirror,” an upset Larson said over the team radio a lap later.
After the race, the 2021 champion was questioned about his frustration levels on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
“Yeah, I just got frustrated a couple times,” Larson admitted. “Denny did what Denny does and — yeah, just ran an angle around one and two like I was never outside of him and ran us out of room. So I was frustrated there.
After finishing fifth at Michigan, @KyleLarsonRacin explained why he was so unhappy with @dennyhamlin and @tydillon during Sunday’s Cup Series race. pic.twitter.com/bY6PDrmrjA
— Kyle Dalton (@kdsportswriter) June 9, 2025
“And then, yeah, Ty Dillon was just mirror driving. We were all running 74th back there and he was mirror driving me, then mirror driving Blaney and I just got kind of fed up with it. It just doesn’t make sense to mirror drive at a place like this. Like we can all benefit from each other if we can just work together when we’re in a line like that. But, I don’t know. So yeah, that was frustrating.”
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This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 9, 2025, where it first appeared.
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