Martinsville Win’s a Big One for Denny Hamlin and a Bigger One for Joe Gibbs

Denny Hamlin has won five Sprint Cup races at Martinsville Speedway. That alone hardly made for an STP 500 surprise. The picture was bigger. A slumping driver did not alone this portrait paint. “This team gives me great race cars,” Hamlin said on Fox Sports 1 from Victory Lane. “It’s a great organization, one that gives me the car to do it.” In the post-race media conference, Hamlin added, “We had a great car after Saturday [practice] that we [thought] was capable of winning. It had the feeling it needed to have, and we just had a race where things worked out for us. “It wasn’t scripted by any means, all the adversity we had to go through, but really, the last 60, 70 laps played out how they ...

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