NASCAR may have said no and let this one slide, but Denny Hamlin isn’t convinced. “I mean, we were just kind of sitting in the middle of the racetrack backwards. I think it’s important to know that, and then I don’t see any reason why I can’t know what the point situation is,” Hamlin said after Ross Chastain’s dive bomb spun him last weekend and handed the final playoff spot to Joey Logano. In a playoff format where even radio chatter about points can count as race manipulation, it is Hamlin’s teammate, Christopher Bell, who knows the harsh reality behind this.

Christopher Bell has been on the receiving end, and you can consider him an expert in this situation. Take Martinsville 2024: a wall-riding misstep disqualified him from the Championship 4, handing the final playoff spot forward

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