Nascar News

Exclusive: Hamlin and Chastain make contact in the final laps at Phoenix

Watch the in-car views from Denny Hamlin and Ross Chastain in the closing laps at Phoenix Raceway as the two make contact on the track.
———-
Subscribe to NASCAR on YouTube:

Check out NASCAR's Discord

Visit NASCAR.com for the latest news:

Checkout NASCAR's Discord

For more race day in-car cameras check out NASCAR Drive –

Shop for your favorite NASCAR gear, diecasts and more:

Download the NASCAR Mobile App:

Weekend schedule for on-track action:
———-
Play every weekend!
———-
NASCAR Fantasy Live:
———-
NASCAR on Social Media
———-
Twitter:
Facebook:
Instagram:
Snapchat:
TikTok:
GIPHY:

Related posts

6 Drivers Who EXCELLED With Great Opportunities In 2023

klengel

NASCAR Reverses Blaney Disqualification | NASCAR Silly Season News

klengel

2023 NASCAR XFINITY SERIES PLAYOFF STANDINGS AFTER MICHIGAN

klengel

60 comments

flyingpizza98 March 13, 2023 at 12:18 am

ah yes, the two best friends in NASCAR

Reply
Patrick Skahill March 13, 2023 at 12:22 am

Unless something happened earlier in the race, Hamlin knocked the crap out of him on the last lap and kept on doing it. Chastain should have got out and knocked his block off..

Reply
Checkered Flag Racing March 13, 2023 at 12:26 am

Ross did nothing to him during the race. Hamlin is just doing Hamlin things. His top 10 just went away too.

Reply
Heidi Koster March 13, 2023 at 12:41 am

Facts

Reply
Aaron Elijah Colyer March 13, 2023 at 4:12 pm

denny would mop the floor with trashstain if they fought

Reply
Wolf March 13, 2023 at 12:22 am

This is literally becoming a Days of thunder type rivalry

Reply
Christopher Ridle March 13, 2023 at 4:06 am

The rivalry in Days of Thunder was based on the battle between Dale Earnhardt and Geoff Bodine. It should be fun.

Reply
Wolf March 13, 2023 at 4:27 am

@Christopher Ridle I know but every other week it’s like the 1 car and 11 car are always getting into it with each other

Reply
AwesomeEli8 March 13, 2023 at 12:23 am

Seems like these two always find each other

Reply
Jutho3121 March 13, 2023 at 12:32 am

Denny Hamlin would be the kind of guy to try and retaliate whilst costing himself 20 positions in the process lmao

Reply
Bee Kay March 13, 2023 at 1:49 am

@Blaise Michaelbut he still didn’t retaliate against Hamlin lmao

Reply
L Lr March 13, 2023 at 11:58 am

@Benson Weaver if u remember, chastian wrecked Hamlin at the clash this year

Reply
Crispykiddo March 13, 2023 at 1:18 pm

@Checkered Flag Racing he obviously got tight

Reply
Benson Weaver March 13, 2023 at 1:40 pm

@L Lr everyone wrecked everyone. That was the nature of the race. Can’t really hold grudges from that

Reply
Michael Chipman March 13, 2023 at 5:22 pm

​@Blaise Michael Denny is a hall-of-famer three-time Daytona 500 Champion what the hell is Ross done to so-called wipe his feet on Denny Hamlin

Reply
MIGHTparanormal March 13, 2023 at 12:42 am

These two just need a good fist fight to get it over with.

Reply
jeyjones March 13, 2023 at 2:47 am

Denny doesn’t want dat smoke!

Reply
Aaron Elijah Colyer March 13, 2023 at 4:12 pm

Denny would win

Reply
WastdTrashPanda March 13, 2023 at 5:12 pm

Neither one of them are fighters, so I bet it would be a good matchup.

Reply
David Griffith March 13, 2023 at 12:51 am

So this man was all about how Ross was way too aggressive last year, and yet here he is knocking him into the wall AND then continues to hit him afterwards…

…But then again I’m not entirely surprised.

Reply
Got Lime March 13, 2023 at 2:57 am

@MurgWorst take I’ve seen on this incident all day. It’s the last lap, it’s a racetrack. Hamlin ran him into the wall and it’s that simple.

Reply
Stin Keedick March 13, 2023 at 3:08 am

@Chris Branchdid you watch the restart before that one?

Reply
Aaron Lee SGBC Lieutenant March 13, 2023 at 3:13 am

​@Murg hi Denny, nice fake profile

Reply
DJNotNice March 13, 2023 at 3:14 am

@Murg Hamlin burner account?

Reply
Crispykiddo March 13, 2023 at 1:20 pm

@24Bryce cause Hamlin got tight

Reply
Starcomfanboy March 13, 2023 at 12:53 am

Are we shocked at all that this happened?

Reply
NascarGamer5332 Account March 13, 2023 at 12:54 am

No wonder Denny *doesn’t* have a championship.

Reply
TORPEDOZ I March 13, 2023 at 2:44 pm

Neither does Chastain

Reply
0 1 March 13, 2023 at 3:59 pm

​@TORPEDOZ I an how long as Denny been in the sport a lot longer than Ross do the math

Reply
0 1 March 13, 2023 at 4:48 pm

@TORPEDOZ I his rookie season was with third grade junk were Denny had grade a stuff look what Ross did with better ride if Denny was so good he should have at least two titles but don’t but hey keep praying for Denny cause he needs all the help he can get

Reply
Travis Mackie March 13, 2023 at 12:55 am

I genuinely wanted to give the benefit of the doubt as I thought it was unintentional from Hamlin at first, but now seeing a more complete replay (thank you for missing something again FOX), this is ridiculous. You run out of talent into a corner, and decide it was the car trapped to the outside who is to blame? Ridiculous.

Reply
1999gtpyak March 13, 2023 at 4:21 am

Lol kinda like when Ross ran out of talent at gateway? Or Atlanta???? Hmmm pretty quiet about that one

Reply
Motorsport Network March 13, 2023 at 4:26 am

@1999gtpyak Or the Clash..

Reply
Timothy Latham March 13, 2023 at 4:41 am

@J He didn’t say anything about unintentional anger, and if you weren’t so triggered by their comment you’d be able to read it properly. Hamlin slid up the track unintentionally, then Ross brake checked him going down the backstretch.

Reply
Miles Prower March 13, 2023 at 12:58 am

Hamlin’s ego is bigger than his brain

Reply
Thraser999 March 13, 2023 at 1:35 am

Well, his brain is not so big tbh…

Reply
1999gtpyak March 13, 2023 at 4:18 am

False

Reply
chase Elliot is cool March 13, 2023 at 1:16 pm

So is his champion ship trophy

Reply
Daniel Rivera March 13, 2023 at 1:11 am

And he’ll STILL find a way to blame it on Ross.

Reply
GOWEN March 13, 2023 at 6:16 am

@Blake Harper Being on the receiving end of being dumped into a corner isn’t running out of talent mate…

Reply
Blake Harper March 13, 2023 at 7:00 am

@GOWEN maybe you need that again.

Reply
Jason Smith March 13, 2023 at 2:29 pm

@Blake Harper agreed 100%. Ive been a race fan for over 35 years Denny wants to be a bully, Ross is just driving his car as hard as he can

Reply
Momentum Racing March 13, 2023 at 1:26 am

Hamlin is such a coward if he thinks Chastain was at fault right there.

Reply
Bee Kay March 13, 2023 at 1:55 am

@Zackery Koroskenyiare you blind? Chastain was never in front of Hamlin, chastain got to his outside before the corner even started and Hamlin flat out ran out of talent

Reply
DJNotNice March 13, 2023 at 3:15 am

@Zackery Koroskenyi nice bait

Reply
Coyotes79 March 13, 2023 at 3:34 am

Yup and then he’ll get on his crappy podcast and play victim. Dale should be ashamed for giving Hypocrite Hamlin a platform.

Reply
Chase Jordan March 13, 2023 at 4:13 am

Uh oh. Some triggered fans here. I havent forgot that chastain is the one with the habbit of sending people into the wall for 6th place, but he has done it on lap 6 and lap 60 instead of the last one.

Reply
1999gtpyak March 13, 2023 at 4:24 am

​@Chase Jordan facts these clowns chose to forget the stretch of like 12 races last year where Ross was wrecking someone every week for position

Reply
TypeZero March 13, 2023 at 1:34 am

@ :34 seconds, Denny is lucky Ross didnt pay him back by hooking Denny in the right rear to send him in the outside wall. I can name about a dozen drivers that would’ve done just that. Ross definitely was the bigger person here, but I assume payback is coming where it hurts Denny the most.

Reply
Coyotes79 March 13, 2023 at 3:23 pm

​@1999gtpyak Ross hit him by accident at Gateway by driving too hard into the corner. Then at Atlanta (a drafting track where everyone was wrecking) Ross slid into him again. It was two unintentional mistakes by Ross, and Ross even took Denny out to lunch to apologize. Then Denny wrecked him in front of the whole field at Pocono which caused a huge impact to Harvick which could have caused a concussion with these Next Gen cars. Hamlin proceeded to do the same thing here at Phoenix trying to destroy Ross’s race. If you can’t see that Hamlin is an entitled cry baby who’s holding a grudge then I don’t know what to say to you. There’s a reason Hamlin has had run-ins with half the garage. He’s the common denominator and has no class.

Reply
1999gtpyak March 13, 2023 at 3:44 pm

@Coyotes79 and not to mention denny literally did nothing malicious, he did exactly what Ross keeps doing to him literally nothing different…. Denny wasn’t going to be able to hold his line where he was on the track and decided not to lift. No different than Ross

Reply
Coyotes79 March 13, 2023 at 5:38 pm

​@1999gtpyak Even if that were true, then Denny has no reason to be mad when he makes similar mistakes. It’s clear as day whenever Denny sees Ross he tries to hit him. It’s not an accident. He’s just a cry baby holding a grudge.

Reply
ShotgunDolphin March 13, 2023 at 1:45 am

Damn Denny just cannot think straight when he’s around Ross can he? What a stupid move.

Reply
Speed 4 Brainz March 13, 2023 at 2:16 am

I was wondering why my boy Ross lost so many spots at the end. He was running inside or around the top 10 for most of the day.

Reply
1999gtpyak March 13, 2023 at 3:46 pm

@Speed 4 Brainz the whole final stage he was outside top ten until the caution came

Reply
Just Some Dude With Wings March 13, 2023 at 3:55 pm

@1999gtpyak yea like by a position or two dude not ten or twenty

Reply
1999gtpyak March 13, 2023 at 4:05 pm

@Just Some Dude With Wings what does that matter? Ross wasn’t going to finish inside of the top ten even without the contact

Reply
scott moore March 13, 2023 at 3:45 am

You know your slow when you have to hit someone 3 times to get around them.

Reply
Omega Gamer March 13, 2023 at 5:43 am

I think it’s time for Denny to let this go man it’s a new year. He drove up high and put Ross into fence then gets angry lol

Reply
Sonny March 13, 2023 at 1:12 pm

So from what I can tell, Hamlin got tight and went up the track. I don’t think Hamlin intended to squeeze Chastain into the wall. In response, Chastain proceeded to brake-check Hamlin.

Reply

Leave a Comment