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Denny Hamlin on His Daytona 500 Win & Ryan Newman’s Last Lap Crash | The Dan Patrick Show | 2/18/20

Mar 17, 2024
When did you realize something was seriously going on with Ryan Newman? Yeah, I mean, I didn't know anything until I got to victory lane, not until you knew that when they canceled the interview at the start/finish line, I knew something was up at that point, so I drove to Victory Lane. Victory and they told me: you know, you know, there is a serious injury with Ryan. I hadn't seen it yet, so I saw the cameraman there and they had the monitor and they were playing it and I and I saw it back then and I thought, wow, it's definitely serious and so it was a victory lane. a little quiet.
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I guess you could say you know there wasn't, you know, because there was a lot of speculation. of you don't know, there are questions that people didn't know and fortunately we got better news later that night, but I thought your owner Joe Gibbs and you two took care of it. I mean, you guys knew there was something serious even when you arrived. Outside the car you're basically saying hey, you know what we made. I'm happy, but you know, I don't know what just happened to this driver and even when you know, Joe Gibbs says basically the same thing like it's silence. celebration by your team, yes, I mean, it has to be right.
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I mean, if you think about knowing that someone's well-being or health is obviously much more important and you know than any sporting event that you can win, you know we're. out there for entertainment purposes I mean you know Ryan has two daughters and I have two daughters too so you can definitely relate and you definitely think that you know them and their family during that time and yeah just from my perspective . and we haven't celebrated it yet, you know, this will still take you time to think and reflect in the coming weeks. I don't think people understand the magnitude of that song, Denny, because the sentiment I read on some social media: how are you celebrating with an accident?
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You're probably a mile and a half from where Ryan Newman's car is. I guess they give people a perspective of where Victory Lane is and where Ryan's car was, yeah, and even the serpentine, they were all camped out between the finish line and turn one and you know, I'll be there. Sir, there are accidents at the end of these races almost every time, so this is definitely not out of the ordinary, but just when, when I went to the finish line and the PE personality came up and said there was no interview here. I thought something was going on and then we went to Victory Lane and the NASCAR official came and talked to me real quick, that's when I knew, hey, actually.
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I told the guys to stop, not to throw any more Gatorade because he's seriously hurt and at that point everyone calmed down, so you know it's a long way off and like I said, this track is two and a half years old. miles long so yeah you can be in what you would think is close proximity and here you are a mile away but you know what's weird when I watch this in real time and I see the crack that we're so used to . guys just getting out of a car, I think member, yeah, Clint Bowyer with what happened to him and then they set cars on fire, he's happy to get it out, he takes off his gloves and a couple of years ago and he just throws it in the car. like us.
We're so used to you guys being indestructible with these cars with the tracks with the walls here and I think that was the shocking thing, they kept

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ing up late, he's not going to get out, he has to get out and then, then the serious nature really kicked in. . Yes, absolutely, and I mean this, it's something that we sometimes take for granted because you know that the cars and all the equipment that we use have the innovations and the advancements in safety have come so far, but when you forget, we're going to 200 .miles per hour and any time a car can appear on your roof like that, it's an opportunity for another car to hit you, that's what happened, so that was definitely the worst case scenario, you know, that's probably the weakest part of the car. the most exposed is right there through the driver's side window, but fortunately we have, like I said, you know much better the encouraging news that we think everything will be okay for the Morgan Patrick

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