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Kevin Harvick addressed some drama involving Denny Hamlin and his 23XI Racing team have been dealing with and says the driver only brings it upon himself.
On the latest episode of Kevin Harvick’s Happy Hour, the former NASCAR champion said about the drama surrounding Denny Hamlin, “He has brought it to himself. I think, at Media Day, he wore the sign on his back, and had everything pointing towards answering all those questions, and then it just totally flipped on him, totally flipped on him, when all those teams signed that charter deal, and everything that he had going on. Laid an egg on the racetrack. Now, here he sits, and he’s not done answering all those questions. There’s more questions now.
“I mean, you’re going to have to answer questions about how you raced, you’re going to have to answer questions that you didn’t answer last week about your charter. What are you going to do with Bubba Wallace? What are you going to do with Tyler Reddick? What’s going to happen with your charters? You know, the complaining about the charters is over, right? Because their position almost, you know, doesn’t matter, because of the fact that all the other teams signed the charters and everything that has happened. So, now it’s all kind of flipped on Denny.”
“You know, he’s kind of been that voice for everything that’s been happening with the charters, and now he’s in a position where he’s racing for his life to stay in the playoffs, where we all thought he was a championship team,” Harvick continued. “Now, he’s going to have, unless they address it and they figure it out, he’s going to have to address those problems week after week after week, because those questions aren’t going away.”
Hamlin and Michael Jordan’s 23XI Racing’s has been in an ongoing dispute over NASCAR’s charter agreement. The team has yet to sign the new revenue agreement. Only two NASCAR teams have refused to sign the agreement, 23XI and Front Row Motorsports, which runs through the 2031 season.
“This isn’t the 1960s, and these predatory practices will not withstand scrutiny and be accepted in 2024,” said longtime Michael Jordan advisor Curtis Polk. “NASCAR has superior bargaining power and undue influence over the sport and the charter process. They wielded this power continuously over the past few months and consistently rejected broad team requests on major issues while providing minor changes for pet issues that some teams requested in one-on-one meetings.”