Though Denny Hamlin won Sunday's NASCAR Cup race at Martinsville in dominant fashion, leading 274 of 400 laps, with a clean 75-lap run to the finish — the Xfinity race was a very different story. With just 100 laps to go, the drivers managed to earn nine cautions, all culminating in a last-lap melee at the front of the field. Sammy Smith came from several car lengths back, intentionally wrecking Taylor Gray for the win. He hit him so hard, it buckled the nose of his car in the process. Smith ended up wrecking as well, taking several cars with him.
Hamlin, with everyone's attention in the winner's press conference after collecting the 55th checkered flag of his Cup career the following day, took the moment to comment on the chaotic Xfinity finish, which he was already outspoken on social media about, calling it "absolute garbage" and noting how if he was in the booth, "I'd get fired but I damn sure would call these idiots out."
