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Denny Hamlin weighs in on grass at NASCAR tracks after Tyler Reddick Las Vegas flip

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Oct 19, 2024; Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; NASCAR Cup Series driver Denny Hamlin (11) during qualifying for the South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Mandatory Credit: Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images

Denny Hamlin shared some interesting thoughts on the grass at NASCAR tracks after Tyler Reddick flipped his car during a wreck at Las Vegas on Sunday. On the Actions Detrimental podcast, Hamlin said he wants more consistency with the grass at each track.

“It’s unfortunate, and certainly we don’t have really any kind of standard of consistency when it comes to the grass and the infield and what we have on mile and a halves,” Denny Hamlin said. “…I just wish we had something more consistency or some sort of here’s the standard in which we want the infields. I certainly think the grass was low.

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“We have some tracks where it’s definitely higher. Michigan was one where you go through the grass there, you’re going to just destroy and it definitely can grab the car. Charlette’s the best by far. They’ve got AstroTurf there. It’s the smoothest, you can run through it, it’s the easiest to maintain but it’s the most expensive to initially put in there. Certainly, the grass was a destroyer of cars and certainly caused this one to flip. If we’re so hellbent on these cars not flipping, because we think that’s a problem, what are they going to do about Las Vegas? If the other issues were a car problem, this is a track problem. So are we going to fix the track problem?”

More on Tyler Reddick’s flip at Las Vegas

Reddick’s flip happened during State 2 of the NASCAR Cup Series Playoff race. He was sidelined after the incident which also involved Chase Elliott and Ryan Blaney, and all three drivers are competing in the Round of 8 of the playoffs. The good thing to come out of the race for Reddick was that he won Stage 1.

“You have to be aggressive on the restart,” Reddick said. “It is hard to pass after a while. Being myself on a mile and a half, being aggressive — by the time I realized I was in trouble, the 19 (Martin Truex Jr.) started sliding and the 9 (Elliott) was coming up, and I was pretty much already on their outside at that point, with nowhere to really go. I needed to make the decision earlier when I saw them sliding to be more conservative to avoid an incident — just not who I am, but it is unfortunate. It took us out of the race.”