Denny Hamlin

NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin probably will be sidelined about six weeks after injuring his lower back in a crash at the race in Fontana, his team announced Tuesday night. Gibbs said the prognosis was made by Dr. Jerry Petty of Carolina Neurosurgery &...

Roger Penske says Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin have exchanged text messages since their final-lap crash at Fontana last weekend that left Hamlin with a fractured vertebra. Penske said he's also sent text messages to Hamlin, who's expected to miss at...

Roger Penske says Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin have exchanged text messages since their final-lap crash at Fontana last weekend that left Hamlin with a fractured vertebra. Penske said he's also sent text messages to Hamlin, who's expected to miss at...

Denny Hamlin will be sidelined at least six weeks because of a fractured vertebra sustained in a last-lap crash at California. Hamlin was evaluated Tuesday by Dr. Jerry Petty of Carolina Neurosurgery and Spine Associates. Petty determined the driver...

Sunday's race at the Auto Club Speedway was quite an exciting affair or so I heard. I didn't actually get to watch the race. I was instead listing as I was driving back from covering the Wichita State women in the NCAA tournament. And I didn't get to...

NASCAR on Tuesday said it would not penalize Joey Logano, Tony Stewart or any other driver following the wild finish to the race at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana. Logano and Denny Hamlin, who already were feuding, collided on the last lap of Sunday's...

NASCAR is not penalizing Tony Stewart for scuffling with Joey Logano on pit road at California, and viewed the crash between Logano and Denny Hamlin as a racing incident. Stewart was angry with Logano after Sunday's race for blocking him on a late...

After tweeting, "I just want to go home," earlier in the day, NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin finally got his wish Monday evening when he was released from the Loma Linda University Medical Center more than 24 hours after wrecking into the wall on the final...

Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano knocked each other off the race track on the final lap of Sunday's Auto Club 400 -- allowing Kyle Busch to steal the win -- but it was Tony Stewart who left Auto Club Speedway fighting mad.   Yes, it was Busch's 25th ...

Denny Hamlin started the Auto Club 400 in the pole position. He ended up in the hospital. In between there was a lot of good racing in Fontana on Sunday that culminated in Hamlin getting tangled with rival Joey Logano on the final lap and landing front-...

NASCAR drivers are too vanilla. Racing at Auto Club Speedway is too boring. The sport's new car isn't racy enough. Tell that to the 80,000-plus fans who jammed into the Fontana track Sunday. They watched what might go down as the wildest, most...

Somewhere in the galaxy, maybe Mars, there might be a crazier sport than NASCAR. These guys don't race cars, they play Russian roulette with lives. Each other's. There is courage, and then there are NASCAR drivers. They must do their training by...