Learn more

Denny Hamlin picked up career-win No. 53 and his second of the season in Sunday’s Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond Raceway, though it didn’t come without some controversy. During the final restart of the race in overtime, in which Hamlin and Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Martin Truex Jr. sat on the front row, Truex accused Hamlin of leaving the restart zone early. Though NASCAR reviewed the restart and said it was “awful close,” they deemed it to be a good restart. Hamlin, speaking on his “Actions Detrimental” podcast on Monday, conceded that he “went pretty early in the zone.” “I went pretty early i…

cuu