Kyle Larson and Denny Hamlin each have their own personal podcasts where they often recap races and the biggest stories in the NASCAR Cup Series each week. <\/p>\n
Given what occurred during Sunday\u2019s HighPoint.com 400 at Pocono Raceway, in which Hamlin appeared to run Larson into the wall with seven laps remaining to take the lead and secure his 50th-career Cup Series victory<\/a>, you could say anticipation was high to hear what both had to say. <\/p>\n Hamlin got the ball rolling during his \u201cActions Detrimental<\/a>\u201d podcast Monday, insisting he didn\u2019t make contact with Larson as he executed the pass. <\/p>\n \u201cI still contest we did not touch,\u201d Hamlin said<\/a>. \u201cI know it looks like it, but there\u2019s not a ding on the car, not a scratch nowhere on the right side. So from where I was sitting on the left, I mean, I could not, if it was contact, I certainly didn\u2019t feel it. It was so small that I certainly didn\u2019t feel it in the car. I saw the flaps go up, which happens whenever you get some low pressure, I guess there\u2019s high pressure underneath the hood, which happens when you do get close to each other.\u201d<\/p>\n Larson, who raced his No. 5 Chevy to a P5 finish, responded on his \u201cHigh Limit Room\u201d podcast. Suffice to say, the 2021 Cup Series champion felt a bit differently than Hamlin. <\/p>\n \u201cHe did hit me,\u201d Larson said, via Jeff Gluck of The Athletic<\/em><\/a>. \u201cI know he says he didn\u2019t, but the replays clearly show he makes contact with me and then my car shoots up the racetrack.\u201d<\/p>\n Hamlin\u2019s late-race move made him the most unpopular man in Long Pond, Pennsylvania, as the sold-out crowd proceeded to boo him as he took the checkered flag. He later caught some criticism from his own Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, Martin Truex Jr. According to Truex Jr., he could have made that move, but didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I was running third, I picked the outside behind the 5 [Larson] and it got me to second,\u201d Truex Jr. told NASCAR SiriusXM Radio<\/em><\/a>. \u201cI felt like if I just did that again, I was going to run second to him. So I picked the front row and I didn\u2019t get the push I needed and I fell back again and I had to fight my way back. I don\u2019t know, for whatever reason we couldn\u2019t get the push we needed on the front row but we pushed a lot of guys today forward and whoever was the leader if they were in front of me they were going to keep the lead you know what I mean?<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not exactly sure what that was all about but I feel like I picked the right lanes and I did exactly what Denny did besides running through \u2013 pushing the 5 car too deep in the corner and run him in the fence off of [Turn] 2. You know he kinda took it that extra little bit I guess to make it a little bit dirty and you know I didn\u2019t so maybe that\u2019s the difference why he won and I didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n The post Kyle Larson responds to Denny Hamlin denying contact at Pocono<\/a> appeared first on On3<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kyle Larson and Denny Hamlin each have their own personal podcasts where they often recap…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Martin Truex Jr. calls Denny Hamlin\u2019s move on Kyle Larson \u2018dirty\u2019 after Pocono<\/h2>\n