Denny Hamlin has won three of the last five Daytona 500 races, including the last two. He could become the first driver to win biggest race in NASCAR three straight years. That would make him the third driver to win the Daytona 500 four or more times.
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Denny Hamlin, who has 44 career victories, won the 2016 Daytona 500. Three years later, he won it again in 2019 to jumpstart a six-win season. Hamlin clinched the season-opening Daytona 500 again last season and went on to bag seven wins. He has finished fourth in points in each of the last two seasons, but has never won the NASCAR Cup Series championship.
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How did Denny Hamlin win the Daytona 500 three times?
Denny Hamlin has been a consistent frontrunner at Daytona and in the Daytona 500, scoring 10 top-five finishes at the track and leading 204 laps in his three Daytona 500 victories. He won the 2016 Daytona 500 with crew chief Mike Wheeler, who now works with driver Bubba Wallace at Hamlin’s 23XI Racing. Chris Gabehart has helped lead him to the Daytona 500 win the last two years.
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Denny Hamlin has been a consistent winner throughout his career. He won at least one race in each of his first 12 seasons before going winless and struggling to an 11-place points finish in 2018. He has bounced back strong the last two seasons, however, winning 13 races in 2019 and 2020.
Denny Hamlin credits Gabehart with helping make him a championship contender last year.
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