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Fourteen months after the event, Joe Gibbs Racing Star Denny Hamlin revealed a secret health problem that left him in the “bad form” last season.
THE NASCAR STAPS Great revealed the agony he went through with a later disease and injury during his most miserable day in a racing car in 2024.
The 44 -year -old winner, 58 times the race in the Cup Series series, was invited to detail his lowest point in a racing car during an interview with questions and answers with Athletics this week. In response, Hamlin has mentioned a painful memory which, so far, had remained a team secret.
This happened during the Iowa Corn 350 inaugural at Iowa Speedway in June 2024, and it started badly. In complete agony, to be exact.
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Hamlin reveals the agony of Iowa
Hamlin said: “Dusette, I had bad. No doubt the worst was Iowa last year. No one really knew it, but I fell with a fever, which weakened my body, then I threw my back.
“I remember during stand stops saying to the Jackman:” You can’t just drop the socket – you have to press it “. I was in bad shape. “
When asked if he had mentioned this at the time, Denny replied: “No, I made him blow. I did two laps to start this race because I felt so horrible.”
It was a start of Hamlin could not get back in finishing the 350 laps race (348 for him) in 24th place.
Hamlin: People are wrong on me
We also asked the superstar of Joe Gibbs’s racing what people are most mistaken about him – and the answer was interesting.
“I mean, I don’t think I’m an A ** hole,” joked Hamlin.
“It is more than people who have never met me or who saw me walking somewhere and I didn’t have time to stop. I always try when I can.
“Or maybe the S *** Talking that I make on the track makes them think that it’s just that I am.”
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