When Kevin Harvick won his 60th Cup race trophy, he revived his old flame. In 2022, he broke a long 65-race dry streak in Michigan and then achieved his 60th win a week after in Richmond. The 2014 Cup Series champion took the lead from Joey Logano with 66 laps to go, and held off Christopher Bell, reversing doubts about his crumbling talents. Yet for Denny Hamlin’s 60th, it meant so much more.

Contrary to Kevin Harvick’s two-year reversal, Denny Hamlin’s 60th may fulfill something he has never achieved in his 20-year career. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver is finally in the Championship 4 again for the first time since 2021. And the conviction for the title is stronger than ever, as Hamlin himself felt something different and unreal on Sunday’s race.

It feels incredible for Denny Hamlin

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