Why Denny Hamlin Is the Dark Horse to Watch in Final Rounds of 2014 Chase

Denny Hamlin has won only one race this season and barely avoided elimination from the 2014 NASCAR Chase for the Sprint Cup last Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway. So why is he smiling so much? Why does he look like a guy who just went on a run at a Las Vegas blackjack table and is now playing with house money? Two reasons: No. 1, he figures the hard part of the Chase is over for him, and No. 2, he remembers how tense he was the last time he inched this close to sniffing a championship in 2010 and failed to close the deal. And he has no intention of going there again. Hamlin is well-aware that now that he is one of the final eight combatants left vying for this 2014 title, the stars very well might be aligning in precisely the right order f...

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