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Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin rehash 2024 Indianapolis drama

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Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin have not forgotten about what happened at the 2024 Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. On the Actions Detrimental podcast, Busch and Hamlin rehashed what happened during the final laps of the race.

“You dodged me for a year because I think you were supposed to be here after Indy of last year?” Denny Hamlin told Kyle Busch, who then said yes and claimed that he wrecked him. “Hold on. Stop the press. You were inside of me and lost control of your car.”

“Oh, how many times did you… Can we talk about how we hate these cars again?” Busch replied while laughing. “It was 12 laps. I think I was faster than you, but it was 12 laps to the end of the race. I’m not going to ask you to pull over at the end of the race.”

Hamlin then said, “I was trying to make it on fuel.” That led to Busch saying, “He would literally lift at the start/finish line three lanes down off the wall, knowing that there’s no chance in hell anybody’s going to go around the outside. You’re going to look like an IndyCar if you put it around the outside and you put your right sides in the rubber.”

Denny Hamlin and Kyle Busch share more on the Indianapolis incident

Hamlin replied, “I thought he was dodging me to not take responsibility for crashing into me, but then it turns out he actually did have a wrist issue. He then asked Busch if he recovered from the wrist injury, and Busch told him it was “fine.”

In the 2024 Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Busch spun underneath Hamlin with a few laps remaining, which led to him finishing 25th. After the race, Busch talked about how his team put him in the best position to succeed despite the wreck.

“Randall Burnett and everyone on the Cheddar’s team did a great job to put us in position to have a good finish today,” Busch said, per Motorsports Wire. “After getting loose in our qualifying session, we worked the entire race to gain track position, and in the closing laps, we had a shot to finish inside the top 10. We saved fuel throughout the race to help with our strategy, which put us in position to capitalize when it mattered.”