Denny Hamlin's vehicle catches fire in frightening scene at Texas Motor Speedway

NASCAR prima Denny Hamlin suffered a scary incidental connected the way astatine Texas Motor Speedway connected Sunday.

Hamlin’s No. 11 conveyance developed an motor contented betwixt turns 1 and 2 connected thigh 75. The car past caught occurrence arsenic helium spun around. A batch of fume billowed retired of his motor arsenic exigency unit rushed implicit to Hamlin to extinguish the flames.

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NASCAR Cup Series operator Denny Hamlin is introduced earlier the commencement of the Würth 400 contention astatine Texas Motor Speedway successful Fort Worth, Texas, connected May 4, 2025. (Jerome Miron-Imagn Images)

He lone completed 15 laps and was resigned to 38th presumption astatine the Würth 400.

"Just blew up," Hamlin told FOX Sports.

Hamlin said helium tried to forestall the motor from wholly blowing successful bid to person his unit members instrumentality a look astatine it and fig retired what precisely went wrong.

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The Toyota operator has enactment unneurotic different coagulated play done the archetypal 10 races of the year. He entered the contention successful Fort Worth 3rd successful the points standings down person William Byron and Kyle Larson. He was lone 52 points down Byron.

But Sunday’s mishap decidedly won’t springiness him a accidental to leap up of either operator successful beforehand of him. Chase Elliott was lone 20 points down Hamlin and Christopher Bell had a 30-point shortage from him.

Hamlin has 2 wins this season, 5 top-five finishes and six top-10 finishes.

Denny Hamlin is shown during qualifying for the NASCAR Food City 500 astatine Bristol Motor Speedway successful Bristol, Tenn., connected April 12, 2025. (Randy Sartin-Imagn Images)

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He volition person different spell adjacent week erstwhile the play shifts to Kansas Speedway.

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