Denny Hamlin: When we come here, we expect to win

“When we come here, obviously we expect to win and we feel like we can every time we come in through the tunnel,” Denny Hamlin says.  “It’s always been a great race track for us. Even the times where it shows we finished bad, I know that we led at some point during that day and we were competitive. Really, based off our performances, definitely our best race track that we’re coming to.” Every time Denny Hamlin comes to Martinsville Speedway, he runs well and the statistics show that. In 13 starts, he has four wins, nine top fives and 11 top 10s. Hamlin says he thinks to be good at Martinsville, you just have to have that nitch. “You’ve got it from the beginning or you don’t,” he says. “This track races different than any track we go to on our circuit. All the other short tracks, you can relate to some other place, but this one is just so unique that for me, it’s the short tracks that I grew up on is why I feel like I’m as good as I am at this race track. It’s just like them. I’ve ra...