Even Kyle Larson couldn’t believe it.

In the final laps of the 2025 NASCAR title race Sunday, Nov. 2, Denny Hamlin was authoring a Hollywood movie script.

The 44-year-old trying to win his first championship in his 20th Cup Series season, a man hoping to score one for his dying father while also in the midst of suing NASCAR as a team owner, sat three seconds in front of the field with three laps to go at Phoenix Raceway .

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