In as many different phrases, Denny Hamlin agrees with Joe Gibbs Racing competition director Chris Gabehart that Team Penske appears ‘untouchable’ for the Cup Collection championship after Sunday’s race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
The foundations bundle used on the one-mile observe in Loudon is similar to the one used at Phoenix Raceway the place the championship can be determined. It’s the quick observe guidelines configuration but in addition the brand new right-side tires that made its debut over the weekend and also will be utilized within the finale.
Penske has received all three championships at Phoenix in the course of the NextGen automobile period with Joey Logano, Ryan Blaney and Logano once more. Blaney received the race at New Hampshire on Sunday whereas Logano ran contained in the top-five all race after scoring the pole.
“The largest factor it’s important to take away from as we speak, with this aero bundle and the identical tires at Phoenix and a one-mile raceway, the Penske automobiles are utterly untouchable once more,” Gebehart advised a handful reporters afterwards.
“I do know what it’s prefer to be untouchable. We’ve been lucky sufficient to be on the precise aspect of that, however the actuality is we’ve a variety of work to do with this bundle. And that’s the main target. The remainder of it’s simply noise. We now have to get higher.”
Talking on his Actions Detrimental podcast, Hamlin additionally mentioned the probabilities are extraordinarily possible {that a} Penske driver wins the championship in the event that they advance to the finale.
Put one other approach, the most probably situation the place Penske doesn’t win the championship is one way or the other eliminating them within the penultimate spherical.
“If you happen to’re not a Penske fan, that’s in all probability what you need to hope,” Penske mentioned.
Hamlin was requested in the event that they realized sufficient from this race, or if one thing could be performed within the subsequent month and a half, all to make a distinction and he mentioned it was unlikely.
“If we re-racked and ran tomorrow, we’d have the identical consequence,” Hamlin mentioned. “It’ll take an intensive overhauling of philosophy to get one other two p.c of grip out of our automobiles. We’re not going to have the ability to tweak our solution to the pace that the Penske automobiles had. In the event that they carry that shifting ahead, we’re not going to have the ability to — we is not going to overcome that, if it correlates to Phoenix.”
Hamlin mentioned it’s possible going to be déjà vu once they get to the desert in November.
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