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Denny Hamlin claims all the “superspeedway racing techniques” he learned from Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Tony Stewart is worthless now

The NASCAR Cup garage is at the Talladega this weekend for the second playoff race in the Round-12. Being a superspeedway, the track offers anyone who play their cads right the perfect shot at winning races and the Next-Gen era has changed racing there so much that the drivers used to dominate their no longer has the same edge.

One veteran that lose such an advantage is Denny Hamlin, who was arguably the best at Superspeedways till 2022. The JGR veteran hasn’t found his mojo back in races like at Dega and Daytona. In the last five races at Talladega, the No:11 team has finished outside the top 15 thrice and has never come close to a win. Hamlin talked about his drop in performance on these tracks in the latest episode of his podcast.

He pointed out that all the techniques and tricks he has learned from likes of Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Tony Stewart in the past, about passing on the track, are no longer useable at Dega. Now it has become more of a number game where drivers, who is in the lane with the most cars got the chance to get upfront compared to others.

All those things that I learned from Dale Jr. Tony Stewart back in the day, gone, all those, all those techniques. I learned how to pass and create runs and all that stuff. You got to just stay in line. It’s just all about numbers. You got to stay in whatever lines got the most cars and that line will go forward.

Denny Hamlin said via Happy Hour podcast.

Denny Hamlin shares his expectations for the YellaWood 500

The three times Daytona 500 winner shared his expectation about the race weekend. He expects the race to be a game of track positions and bit of fuel saving, as he believes almost all of the teams will be employing the same strategy. Hamlin seems to be expecting nothing new from the race weekend at Dega.

Denny Hamlin
Denny Hamlin (Via IMAGO)

This week, what are we going to see there? Who knows? I mean, I think you’re going to see everyone battling to try to get stage points and win the race. It’s one where, um, certainly you’re going to have, you know, you’re not going to have varying strategies.  Um, and then there’s going to be others that stay out and want to keep track position, but it’s going to be a track position race in my opinion.

Denny Hamlin said.

The predictions from Hamlin hints to the possibility of having a dull race at Talladega, unless there is some late race wrecks. It will be a huge disappointment for the fans if race just become a crash fest instead of featuring highspeed passes and great duels.