Denny Hamlin Blasts RCR, Kevin Harvick Strikes Back in Practice

Filed under: Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick, NASCAR Fights, NASCARAn already controversial Chase to the Sprint Cup championship became far edgier Saturday when Kevin Harvick repeatedly struck and damaged Denny Hamlin's car during the early laps of morning practice as the teams prepared for Sunday's race at Dover International Speedway.

The incident came a day after Hamlin leveled fierce criticism at Richard Childress Racing and said it was "a crock" that RCR driver Clint Bowyer didn't get a competitive advantage from the rear end of his car being too low at Richmond, where he won the Chase's first race.

Hamlin, for one, wasn't buying the team's explanation that a post-race push from a tow truck damaged the car and made it too low.

"You can talk about how small the thing was off and you can really try to say that 60-thousandths didn't help him (Clint Bowyer) perform any better -- that is a crock," Hamlin said Friday. "Let me tell you something, that helps a lot."

Hamin wasn't finished. "In the garage, everyone has known it for months," he said. "It's not two weeks' old. This is something that's been going on for months. They've (33 team) been warned for a long time, way before Richmond. This is not something that, 'Oh man, they just told us halfway after Richmond and going into Loudon that our car's wrong.' They knew it was wrong way before that and I felt like they just, they wanted to get everything they could. What did they have to lose really? You almost can't fault them for that." Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments

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