How long will Joe Gibbs hold out? A year ago, JGR was one of the top contenders in the Championship run. Although Ty Gibbs and Martin Truex Jr. bowed out of the playoffs early, Denny Hamlin and Christopher Bell were fighting it out. However, Bell succumbed to a penalty-laden Martinsville finish, while Hamlin’s poor finishes snuffed him from the final Championship 4 race. Meanwhile, a certain driver climbed from an afterthought to a three-time Cup Series champion.

Yes, that is none other than Joey Logano, the No. 22 Team Penske Ford driver. He cracked the 2024 playoffs with a quintuple overtime race win and almost got eliminated from the Round of 8. So if a driver teetering on the brink of disaster can suddenly rise above everybody else, Denny Hamlin has serious doubts about his team’s fut

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