Hamlin’s angry radio message after losing out to – Sports News
NASCAR star Denny Hamlin was left infuriated after losing out to his teammate Christopher Bell on the final lap of the Shriners Children’s 500.
While Hamlin has struggled during the opening 2025 Cup Series season, finishing 24th at Daytona, sixth in Atlanta and 21st at COTA, he found himself battling it out with Bell at the end of the Shriners Children’s 500 at Phoenix Raceway.
However, Hamlin lost out in agonizing fashion to Bell, who claimed his third consecutive win of the 2025 season. While Hamlin’s performance in Phoenix was an improvement on his previous three races, the Joe Gibbs Racing driver was left furious after being beaten.
Footage from the 44-year-old’s onboard camera caught the veteran NASCAR driver swearing loudly as Bell went on to claim a photo-finish victory in the Shriners Children’s 500 down the final straight.
“God dammit! F—!” Hamlin could be heard saying over the team radio.
“Hey bud, good try man,” Hamlin was told by his team. “Great effort on everybody’s part.”
Speaking after the race, Hamlin said of his second-place finish: “Yeah, great job out of this Sports Clips team. Got better and better as it went. Pit crew did a phenomenal job to keep us in the game when we had a bad stop in the middle. They made up for it at the end.
“First time we were able to get some clean air all day. Obviously our car was really fast. Really kind of wanted it to stay green there cause I thought in the long runs is really where we were going to be able to excel, especially on these tires.
“But we got a good restart. The 5 really gave me a great push on the frontstretch on the restart down the backstretch.”
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Hamlin added of the photo finish: “I had kind of position on the 20 [Bell]. I knew he was going to ship it in there. He had to use me. He could. Obviously we just kind of ran out of racetrack there.
“Great finish. Great job by the whole Joe Gibbs team to give us some fast cars.”
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