Denny Hamlin Makes Troubling Admission About NASCAR Car

Denny Hamlin is having a successful season, with multiple wins under his belt before the summer stretch. The NASCAR veteran is padding his Hall of Fame resume while still chasing his first-ever Cup Series championship.

Hamlin will have to wait until the fall to properly contend for that title in the playoffs, but he's letting his voice be heard about what's going on in the sport. Fans and drivers alike were disappointed in the racing at Bristol over the weekend, and Hamlin believes the Next Gen car is the culprit.

“You will not pass when the field runs the same speed. I’ve said this week after week, I don’t know what we expect. This is the car we built. This is what ownership of NASCAR wanted," Hamlin said on his "Actions Detrimental" podcast.

"They wanted to build a sports car and we’re going to race this sports car on all these different tracks. It just doesn’t race well. I think that there are fixes that we can do to it, but I’m not in charge. I’m part of NASCAR meetings. There’s nothing on the horizon. There’s been no discussion of fixing things that that really need to be addressed on it."

Hamlin said that the car needs aerodynamic changes to make it more similar to Xfinity Series cars.

"You get a front-end that’s not on the ground, it’s in the air because we have to feed the underbody of the car," he said.

"As soon as we get behind somebody, that thing just lifts right on up. You got no front downforce. It plows. You’ve got to get the attitude of the car correct. We’ve got to get more over-body, less underbody, because that’s what the Xfinity car has.”

Hamlin also explained why the aerodynamic issues with the current Next Gen car persist, as well as how they affect drivers' ability to pass in traffic.