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Denny Hamlin Calls Out Fox for Confusing Fans

Originally posted on Athlon Sports | By Kyle Dalton | Last updated Sep 23, 2025 4:34 PM ET

Denny Hamlin finished 12th in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at New Hampshire. Despite that lackluster performance from the No. 11 driver, he was one of the main storylines after the race due to his second stage drama with Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Ty Gibbs when he spun the No. 54 car and expressed frustrations with his 22-year-old counterpart’s aggressive driving around his playoff teammates.

On Monday’s “Actions Detrimental” podcast, Hamlin was candid about the situation and how he hopes leadership will intervene and come up with a plan for the future.

Interestingly, those weren’t the only eyebrow-raising comments made by the 44-year-old.

Before that discussion, he was talking about the Truck Series race on Friday at New Hampshire and the confusion from the graphics Fox displayed on the scoring pylon during the broadcast.

“We turn on the TV and I'm sitting there going – I'm confused why these names are in red and the other names are in green,” Hamlin started. “And at the time there was no kind of live ticker of how close it was or anything like that. They did give updates every now and then, but I'm not really sure on Fox's graphics department as a whole.

“Maybe it's time to rethink it, but certainly inversing red and green, eliminated to not eliminated would be a good first step for them."

“In Fox's defense, maybe there was a key on the screen at some point before we arrived, but it probably should be on the screen more often because I don't think it came up in those final 50 laps that we were watching,” show co-host Jared Allen suggested.

“I think that just would've made things worse for me just simply because I would've said, now they know it's screwed up, so then they have to clarify," the driver replied. "Do you know what I mean? Let's just try to keep this uniform to what everything else is. Green is good. Red is bad. Eliminated red. Advancing green. Let's just start there. We can work on the cartoon characters later."

This article first appeared on Athlon Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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