Kevin Harvick shared his ideas on Chris Buescher‘s crew chief, Scott Graves, calling out Denny Hamlin for the wreck at Talladega this previous weekend. On Kevin Harvick’s Pleased Hour, Harvick talked concerning the social media submit Graves made that was directed at Hamlin.
“We noticed [Busecher’s] crew chief go after Denny Hamlin after the race on Twitter,” Kevin Harvick mentioned. “Had a pleasant little submit that I’m certain we are able to put as much as associate with every part that occurred with the wreck. However he was none too happy with Denny Hamlin and the outcomes of the 20 [Christopher Bell] crashing him and sending the 17 [Buescher] to the wall.”
In the course of the first stage of the Talladega race, Hamlin was concerned in a wreck with Bell and Buescher. After the race, Graves went to social media to name out Hamlin for wrecking Buescher and ending the workforce’s day early. “This workforce works so onerous each week, had our driver in place for the tip of stage 1, and the fellows that might contemplate themselves a number of the finest drivers on this planet can’t even get by means of a restart,” Graves wrote. “I see why you may have an insurance coverage sponsor [Denny Hamlin], can I file a declare?”
Denny Hamlin talks concerning the wreck with Chris Buescher and Christopher Bell
On Denny Hamlin’s Actions Detrimental podcast, he took duty for the wreck however didn’t know the way it occurred. “Fu*king racing, I don’t know,” Hamlin mentioned. “We had been operating 177 mph is what it mentioned. So, we’re not even on top of things. I’ve perpetually after I’m the fourth automotive in line pushing or inside, I all the time push the automotive all the way in which till Flip 3 after a restart and I’ve finished that perpetually and it’s by no means been an issue. It simply spun out the 20 [Bell].”
Hamlin then mentioned he was push drafting his teammate Bell and had but to get absolutely on top of things. “C Bell ought to have been going sluggish sufficient, and we should always have been going sluggish sufficient the place he was capable of take a slight push all the way in which across the monitor. When he went round, it wasn’t like — I can really feel into the again of somebody like how onerous I’m into their bumper and I felt like I used to be barely there. After I prefer to bump draft, I don’t bump draft. I like push draft. I all the time decelerate, get to their again bumper, after which shove them ahead. By no means actually prefer to hit them and knock them ahead. So, I bought on his bumper, laid on it and simply stayed on that push all the way in which round after which subsequent factor you realize, I turned his ass proper into the infield. It’s on me.”
On3’s Nick Geddes contributed to this story.
