NASCAR’s playoff pressure cooker boiled over at New Hampshire Motor Speedway’s Mobil 1 301 on September 21, 2025, with Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Denny Hamlin and Ty Gibbs stealing the show for all the wrong reasons. Around Lap 110, Hamlin, deep in the championship hunt, was scrapping for 11th-place stage points when Gibbs, out of the playoffs but racing hard, kept him pinned.

The standoff ended when Hamlin clipped Gibbs’ No. 54 Toyota exiting Turn 4, sending his teammate spinning into the Turn 1 wall and out of the race. Hamlin, who finished 12th, called it a mistake but didn’t hide his irritation at Gibbs’ block, which also held up fellow contender Christopher Bell.

The incident sparked a wave of questions about JGR’s teammate dynamics, especially with Hamlin chasing his first Cup titl

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