Denny Hamlin is not any stranger to arduous contact on the race course, however after witnessing Corey LaJoie‘s flip at Michigan this week he’s nonetheless of an opinion you may not anticipate.
Would he relatively flip than hit a wall?
“Sure. It’s not a priority on my finish. Sure (I’d relatively flip over) than hit a wall,” Denny Hamlin mentioned on his Actions Detrimental podcast. “I suppose statistically talking there’s at all times anomalies. There’s at all times situations the place vehicles go airborne, and we had that incident at Talladega with Brad Keselowski, Ryan Newman. We’ve had vehicles stand up within the catch fences and there’s been some collateral harm from that.
“However usually talking I really feel like from a driver security perspective we haven’t had an entire lot of flips equal unhealthy accidents. We’ve had contact with wall equal unhealthy accidents.”
LaJoie’s wreck on Monday actually put lots of hearts in throats. It was a scary, scary second, one which appeared to final eternally till his automobile lastly caught the infield grass and went right-side-up once more.
Hamlin contends, although, that the texture of a crash like that isn’t as unhealthy as some the place you go into the wall.
“One simply seems extra violent than one other,” Denny Hamlin mentioned. “Once you flip over and the factor begins tumbling, proper, persons are pondering, ‘Oh my gosh, have a look at all of the arduous hits he’s taking.’ It’s not likely, it’s extra similar to a I might suppose a spin cycle, proper? It’s not any actually arduous hit it’s only a bunch of actual small ones. It’s simply whenever you hit in these vehicles, particularly flat-sided or nosing in, that’s that one large spike and that’s what actually could cause accidents.”
Hamlin ought to know. Whereas he hasn’t had a current crash that appeared like LaJoie’s, he has been concerned in some fairly arduous contact.
In reality, simply two weeks in the past at Richmond he was spun into the wall by Austin Dillon. That left him sore for days.
“It was unhealthy. It was unhealthy. Simply my entire proper aspect,” Hamlin mentioned. “I felt like I obtained crushed into the proper aspect of the seat, so every part on the proper aspect of me, my leg, my again, my shoulder simply was all simply felt prefer it obtained hit arduous. Once you look on TV some impacts will not be all equal. Some look unhealthy that aren’t and a few aren’t that really are. So it’s simply bizarre.”
Regardless of LaJoie’s flip, Hamlin continues to imagine it’s not one thing the game ought to actively attempt to remove. It’s simply a part of racing.
“I simply suppose that vehicles flipping over has occurred for eternally and it’s going to proceed to occur and slowing us down is just not the reply,” Denny Hamlin mentioned. “You’re simply going to make us run nearer collectively and trigger extra contact and trigger extra vehicles to flip. So I feel it’s only a product of it. I didn’t actually see something incorrect and it was a novel state of affairs the place he turned sideways at 185 miles per hour towards most likely a headwind that helped this factor flip over.”
