Kyle Petty tears into Denny Hamlin for ‘no remorse’ after Pocono win

If Kyle Petty wasn’t in the Peacock Pit Box, he might have been booing Denny Hamlin along with the thousands of fans at Pocono. Hamlin put a hard move on Kyle Larson on the second-to-last restart. It put Larson into the fence, much like Hamlin did to Chastain in 2022. Fans and the folks in the NASCAR NBC booth did not like what they saw.

There was a lot for Denny Hamlin to compete for in this race. He got his Pocono win taken from his last season. This was a record-breaking seventh Pocono win, his 50th win overall in the Cup Series, and win 600 for JGR in the three NASCAR national series.

Kyle Petty did not appreciate the win.

“Denny can’t be the victim,” Petty said after the race. “We played his radio, he was the victim, he puts himself in the victim position. You’re not the victim here Denny Hamlin. And when I looked at this one and we heard what Kyle Larson said, he said, ‘Denny’s always right, all his buddies know it.’ And he laughed about it. Because he knows Denny’s not going to apologize for this. It was a great race. I enjoyed every lap, I loved the strategy, I loved everything about it. The ending? I don’t appreciate. I don’t appreciate. Even 50 wins, what he’s done I don’t apprecaite that because we saw this same move last year and that’s just my opinion.”

Petty would continue his tirade against Denny Hamlin before the end of the broadcast.

“No, he’s not going to that’s not Denny. Listen, he’s not going to, I’m not even going to go down that highway with you because that’s not Denny Hamlin’s personality. Kyle Larson said it, Denny’s always right. People that are always right don’t have remorse, they just go ahead and live their life in their world. And that’s what Denny does. And that’s fine, because he is an incredible race car driver. He is able to take that and put it somewhere, and t’s win at all cost and we saw that here.”