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Lessons from 54 Wins: Denny Hamlin’s Career Secrets | Denny Hamlin DSH #1974
28 Mar 2025
What are the secrets behind Denny Hamlin's long racing career?
Pretty early when you're looking to make a change. And, you know, Tyler Reddick, who went to the championship race last year for us, we signed him two years before his deal was even up. And so he ended up, you know, the team he was with got pissed off, kicked him out early. So we actually got him a year early, but we had to pay them for that. Interesting.
All right, guys, Denny Hemlin out here in Vegas. Got a race tomorrow. Thanks for stopping in, man. Yeah, appreciate you having me.
Yeah, how are things in your world so far this year? It's going good. You know, we're just a couple races in, but, you know, it's early in the season. We got 38 weeks. This is week five, so we got quite a bit of time left, and usually I don't hit my stride typically till the summer months of the season. That's a long season. That might be the longest of any pro sport, right? It is actually, yeah.
So we go from essentially Valentine's Day, actually before that now, February 1st to the first week of November. So essentially we get...
most of november off december off in january and then we're back at it that's crazy when i say off like that's a very loose term because we still have tons of obligations you know photo shoots and media shoots and sponsorship shoots that we got to do in the off season so yeah three months off that's it we're racing for nine months that's nuts that's a lot of traveling do you ever get burnt out absolutely
I mean, this is my 20th year, 20th year doing this. But I still love it because I can still win. And like I've said many times, like when I decide to retire, it's when I know that I am going, I have to travel somewhere and I know I can't win. If I know I can't win, I'm out. Have you ever thought about retirement? Oh yeah. I think about it all the time. I'm more paranoid about
when is that light switch going to go off where I don't have the skill set that it takes to compete against the young guys anymore? Right. Like I still feel at my age and results would show that I am still on top of my game, but I know that one day father time's undefeated. and I'm not going to be able to do it is good. And I'm just, I worry about waking up and that being the day.
Yeah. Yeah, because a big thing in your sport is reaction time, right? Correct. And as you age, your brain slows down. Yes. Have you noticed that you've lost a little step?
From reaction standpoint, I don't think so. I think I'm pretty sharp still on that. I think one of the things that forces NASCAR drivers out is vision at times. But my vision is still 2010. Oh, wow. Same as it's been ever since I was a kid. I wish I had that. It's really, really good. I still have that. But, I mean, I'm sure I'm slower than I was 10 years ago. Yeah. But...
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