Denny Hamlin

A professional stock car racing driver from the USA is named for Denny Hamlin who currently competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 11 Toyota Camry and part-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving a Toyota Supra, both for Joe Gibbs Racing. He started racing ‘go-karts’ at the age of only seven and won the WKA manufacturers cup in 1995 at the age of fifteen. Till now, he has altogether won 43 NASCAR Cup Series races. He was also featured among the eight playable drivers on the EA Sports NASCAR Racing arcade game, the only rookie to be featured in the game. In the year 2020, he became the fourth person to win the race in back-to-back seasons, joining Richard Petty, Cale Yarborough, and Sterling Marlin.

Denny Hamlin “encouraged” with Las Vegas run

Denny Hamlin clearly had the best car in Sunday night’s South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, leading 121 of the 268 laps but an untimely caution during a late-round of green-flag pit stops turned the race upside down. At first, it looked like Hamlin could be in for another rough night-initially getting caught a lap down-but he and his No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota team rallied in overtime to come away with a third-place finish. “We had a dominant car today and I’m proud of the whole team for giving me such a great car. By far the best car I’ve had in Las Vegas in a long time. It was really, really good,” Hamlin said. “Really encouraged by the way we ran, but very disappointed that we didn’t get a win. It’s just been the way that the playoffs have gone. Whoever stays out the longest (during green-flag stops) puts themselves in a great spot to win.” After his finish Sunday, he has a 58-point cushion above the cutoff heading into next weekend’s race at Talladega. The final race of the second round is in two weeks at the Charlotte Roval.

Known For

Being a professional stock car racer is a dream come true for many people.

For winning 43 NASCAR Cup Series races, including the Daytona 500 in 2016 and 2019, as well as the Daytona 500 in 2019 and 2020.

Denny Hamlin was born in what city?

Denny Hamlin was born on November 18, 1980, under the birth name James Dennis Alan Hamlin. While he was born in Tampa, Florida, he spent the majority of his childhood in Chesterfield, Virginia. His nationality is American, and his race is American-White. In the year 2019, he turned 39 years old. His zodiac sign is Scorpio. Dennis Hamlin (father) and Lou Hamlin (mother) were his parents when he was born (mother). He has four siblings as well (sisters). He is the youngest of five children who began driving ‘go-karts’ when he was just seven years old.

Denny Hamlin’s Career: How Was It?

Denny started driving 90-karts at the age of fifteen and won the WKA manufacturers cup in 1995.

He started racing mini stocks after a year. Hamlin took the pole position and the race in his first stock car race at Langley Speedway.

In 1998, he stepped up to the Grand Stock division, and in 2000, he switched to Late Model Stock Cars.

In 2002, he won ten Late Model races and followed that up in 2003 with 25 wins and 30 poles in 36 races.

In the year 2004, he signed a driver development deal with Joe Gibbs Racing.

In the same year, he drove for EJP Racing in five NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series races, finishing tenth in his NASCAR debut at Indianapolis Raceway Park.

At Talladega Superspeedway, he competed in his first ARCA RE/MAX Series event, finishing third in the No. 10 Pontiac owned by Andy Hillenburg.

At Darlington Raceway, he also made his Busch Series debut.

In the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Powered Performance Oil Chevrolet, he started 27th (rain-out) and finished eighth.

After replacing Mike Bliss in the No. 20 Rockwell Automation Chevrolet in the Busch Series for the 2005 season, he finished 5th in the final championship points standings as a rookie in that series, with 11 top 10s and $1,064,110 in earnings.

After Jason Leffler was released, he made his first NASCAR Cup Series starts in 2005, making his Cup debut at Kansas Speedway as a driver of the No. 11 FedEx Chevrolet for the 2006 season. He made seven starts in the Cup series in 2005.

In those seven starts, he ended the Cup season with three top ten finishes and one pole at Phoenix International Raceway.

In 2006, he completed his first full season in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series, driving in both the Nextel Cup and Busch Series full-time.

He also made history by becoming the first Rookie of the Year nominee to win the Shootout.

On June 11, 2006, he won his first career Cup Series race at the Pocono 500, where he also won his second career pole, and on July 23, 2006, he won his second career race at Pocono Raceway, the Pennsylvania 500, becoming just the second rookie in Nextel Cup history to sweep both races at the same track in the same season.

He also received the Raybestos Rookie of the Year award and finished third in the final Cup standings, the most points for a rookie in NASCAR’s modern era and the most in the Cup Series.

He also becomes the first rookie to qualify for the NEXTEL Cup Chase, where he finished third in points.

After finishing 28th in the Daytona 500, he started his 2007 Cup season by winning his third career Cup race at New Hampshire International Speedway’s Lenox Industrial Tools 300.

In the Nationwide Series, he won three races in the No. 20 Rockwell Automation Chevy, including Darlington, Michigan, and Dover.

In the 2008 season, he won at Martinsville Speedway early in the season.

In the Nationwide Series, he won four races while driving the Nos. 18 and 20 cars for Gibbs, as well as the No. 32 Dollar General/Hass avocados car for Braun Racing.

After that, on August 3, 2009, he won his fifth Cup race of his career at Pocono Raceway.

At Richmond International Raceway, he dominated the race once more and eventually prevailed at his home track.

He went on to win the Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway in the 2009 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Finale.

He tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee while playing basketball on January 22, 2010. His surgery was decided to be postponed until after the season.

On March 27, 2010, he revealed that he will be having surgery on his left knee.

Following his rehab, he won the rain-delayed race at Martinsville Speedway in spectacular fashion on March 29, 2010.

In 2010, he went to victory lane for the third time at Darlington Raceway.

He raced the No. 20 for Joe Gibbs Racing to victory in the Nationwide Series Royal Purple 200 presented by O’Reilly Auto Parts.

He won for the fifth time this season at Michigan International Speedway after starting seventh.

At Atlanta Motor Speedway, he finished 43rd in the Emory Healthcare 500.

He finished 9th in the AAA 400 at Dover International Speedway, maintaining a 35-point lead over Jimmie Johnson in the standings.

In the second event on the calendar, at Phoenix International Raceway, he won for the first time in 2012.

On August 26, he won his third race of the season in the Irwin Tools Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway.

He had a rough start to the 2013 season, crashing both his cars in the Sprint Unlimited and the Budweiser Duel.
At Fontana, he won his first pole of the year.

He had a major L1 compression fracture or a collapsed vertebra, it was later revealed.
In the Aaron’s 499, he made his comeback at Talladega.

He qualified sixth at Darlington in his first complete race since his injury.

He set a new track record of 195.624 mph (314.826 km/h) at Charlotte for the Coca-Cola 600, leading six laps and finishing fourth.

He got off to a good start in 2014 by winning the pole and leading all three segments of the Sprint Unlimited, ultimately winning the race.

He claimed the second of the Budweiser Duels once more.

He won the race at Talladega when the caution flag was flying during the final lap.

At the Brickyard 400, he came in third place.

His No. 11 car failed post-race inspection, resulting in NASCAR seizing the vehicle and investigating different components. After two days, NASCAR suspended crew chief Darian Grubb for six races, fined him $125,000, docked

Hamlin and Joe Gibbs 75 driver and owner points, suspended crew chief Wesley Sherrill, and put the No. 11 team on probation until December 31, 2014.

The team and Joe Gibbs then agreed to contest the fines, but they later changed their minds. “We’ll just step on and not let this impact our results,” he said of the penalty.

He won the Sprint All-Star Race in May 2015 by beating Brad Keselowski off pit road during the final pit stops.

After qualifying for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Chase, he won the first race of the Chase at Chicagoland Speedway, securing his place in the second round.

He did double duty in Charlotte, winning the 15th Xfinity Series race of his career in his first Xfinity start of the 2016 season in car number 18.

In the early part of the 2017 season, he finished eighth in Stage 1 of the Daytona 500.

In Stage 3 of the Coca-Cola 600 in Charlotte, he won his second stage of the season and led the final ten laps.

After a tense struggle with Kyle Larson on the final restart at Michigan, he finished fourth.

He eventually broke through when he came from eighth on the grid to win in New Hampshire, ending every stage in the top ten (9th and 2nd) and leading 52 laps. This was his 30th NASCAR Cup Series victory, his 3rd Cup victory at

Loudon, and JGR’s first victory of the year.

After a very consistent run, he came in third position at the Night Race in Bristol.

At Darlington, he dominated both the Xfinity and Cup races.

After NASCAR discovered an illegal rear suspension feature, his car would fail post-race inspection in both races.

Mike Wheeler, his crew chief, was fined $50,000 and suspended for two races.

He kicked off the 2018 season by finishing third in the Daytona 500.

He then broke a 47-race winless drought with his second Daytona 500 victory, the first Cup Series victory for new crew chief Chris Gabehart, and a victory dedicated to the late J. D. Gibbs.

He hit Logano on turn four at Martinsville, squeezing him into the outside wall and causing him to lose a tire and spin out two laps later. He came in fourth place, while Logano came in eighth place.

On November 1st, he announced that he has a torn labrum in his left shoulder, which he will have surgically repaired after the 2019 season.

He won the Darlington race at the Xfinity stage, but was disqualified after his car failed post-race inspection because it did not meet height specifications. As a result, Cole Custer, who finished second, was crowned the race winner.

In the year 2020, he won his third Daytona 500 by 0.014 seconds over Ryan Blaney in overtime, the second-closest finish in the race’s history behind Hamlin’s victory in 2016.

In victories at Darlington, Homestead, Pocono, and Kansas, he dominated.

He passed Mark Martin for the second-most wins by a driver who had never won the championship with his victory at Pocono.

On September 21, 2020, Hamlin and NBA legend Michael Jordan announced that they will field a single-car team for the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series season, with Bubba Wallace driving.

Denny Hamlin’s Achievements and Honors

Winner of the Daytona 500 in 2016, 2019, and 2020

Winner of the 2015 Sprint All-Star Race and the 2014 Aaron’s 499

Southern 500 winner in 2010, 2014, and 2017; Can-Am Duels winner in 2006, 2014, and 2016; and Sprint Unlimited winner in 2006, 2014, and 2017.

How much is Denny Hamlin’s Net Worth?

Denny Hamlin is a professional stock car racing driver who has made a huge amount of money throughout his career. From the age of seven, he began his early career, and till now, he is very active in the field. With his hard work and continuous dedication, he has made the net worth of $65 Million as of 2020. As of 2019, he mаdе a total NASCAR earning of $14.6 mіllіоn. Among which, $13.1 mіllіоn comes from his salary and $1.5 mіllіоn came from еndоrѕеmеntѕ deals has a personal endorsement with big brand names Coca-Cola and Nike’s Jordan Brand. In 2015, he was the 5th highest paid NASCAR driver with total earnings of $15.1 million. In 2017, he was the 3rd highest earning driver with $15.2 million in total earnings. In 2018, he made $14.6 million earnings in total with $12.9 million from winnings and remaining from endorsement deals. As of today, he is satisfied with his earnings and he is enjoying a luxurious lifestyle.

Who is Denny Hamlin’s Girlfriend?

Denny Hamlin is an unmarried man. But he is not single as of today. He is currently in a relationship at present. He is dating his girlfriend/partner, Jordan Fish. They together have a daughter named “Taylor James Hamlin” who was born on 20th January 2013. Just before the start of the 2017 season at the Daytona 500, it was announced that the couple was expecting their second child. Further, they welcomed their second daughter, Molly Gold Hamlin on 15th August 2017. As of now, the couple is living happily with their daughter and there is no sign of separation between them. Their relationship bond is going stronger with the passage of time. His sexual orientation is straight and he is not gay.

How tall is Denny Hamlin?

Denny Hamlin is a very handsome man who has attracted a lot of viewers towards him with his glowing face and charming smile. He stands tall at the height of 6 ft or 1.83 m with a bodyweight of 170 lbs or 77 KG. He has a pair of hazel eye color and his hair color is light brown. His other body details are yet to be disclosed. He has got an athletic body build. He maintains his body a lot.