{"id":87030,"date":"2025-03-31T21:34:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T02:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/denny-hamlin-martinsville-win-was-super-gratifying-wanted-to-win-to-silence-chris-gayle-doubters\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T21:34:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T02:34:24","slug":"denny-hamlin-martinsville-win-was-super-gratifying-wanted-to-win-to-silence-chris-gayle-doubters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.wztzfm.com\/wp\/denny-hamlin-martinsville-win-was-super-gratifying-wanted-to-win-to-silence-chris-gayle-doubters\/","title":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin: Martinsville win was \u2018super gratifying,\u2019 wanted to win to silence Chris Gayle doubters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Denny Hamlin<\/strong> was happy to win the NASCAR Cup Series race at Martinsville for himself and crew chief Chris Gayle<\/strong>. On the Actions Detrimental<\/em> podcast,<\/a> Hamlin talked about winning his first Cup Series race with Gayle. <\/p>\n

\u201cCertainly, winning 10 years ago at that track, being that big of a gap. It\u2019s not like we\u2019ve been crap for the last 10 years. We\u2019ve just always been right there on the cusp and just didn\u2019t do it,\u201d Hamlin said. It\u2019s super gratifying from that standpoint, but this is probably one of the very few wins that I was more happy for my crew chief Chris Gayle.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that he\u2019s had a tough go having these young guys and try to help mentor them, also crew chief them and also help the engineers. That\u2019s a tough job when you have a young driver and you\u2019re trying to figure out what\u2019s the best way to build the car, to optimize speed but yet make it to wherre they can drive it. It\u2019s hard to do. I think that I\u2019ve tried really this year to make his job as easy as possible by just straight giving him whatever information he needs to make the car the best it can. I wanted to do it more to silence his doubters more than necessarily mine.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chris Gayle talks about working with Denny Hamlin<\/h2>\n

Chris Gayle his in his first year as Hamlin\u2019s crew chief. He replaced Chris Gabehart,<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>who was promoted to the competition director for Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR). Gayle has a lot of experience as crew chief, having held that position in the Xfinity Series and Cup Series since 2013. Last year, Gayle was the crew chief for Ty Gibbs,<\/strong> and the team earned eight top-five finishes, 12 top 10s and two pole awards.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s wildly different,\u201d Gayle told reporters after the race on Sunday when asked about working with Denny Hamlin after spending time with Ty Gibbs. \u201cEven if you go before Ty Gibbs, I had Erik Jones<\/strong>, who was a rookie. Both of those instances, I\u2019m going through it with them for the first time. They\u2019ve never seen anything before there. I\u2019m trying to be the guy who reminds them of every possible scenario that can happen, looking at the data with them, trying to get them up to speed.\u201d<\/p>\n\n

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