Denny Hamlin ties Lee Petty on all-time wins list
With his 54th NASCAR Cup Series victory Sunday in the Wurth 400, Denny Hamlin tied three-time champion Lee Petty on the all-time wins list
Hamlin led 136 laps Sunday en route to the win, his third of 2024.
“I couldn’t hold Lee Petty’s helmet,” Hamlin said. “I’ve been blessed with a great race team, I’m the lucky one that gets to drive it.”
Lee Petty, the father of Richard Petty, won his 54 races between 1949 to 1961. Additionally, he won his championships in 1954, 1958 and 1959.
Ahead of Hamlin and Petty on the wins list are Rusty Wallace (55), Kevin Harvick (60), and Kyle Busch (63).
Hamlin has the most NASCAR Cup Series wins of any driver who has never won a championship in the series.
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Dominic Aragon is currently the editor-in-chief for The Racing Experts.
From Grants, New Mexico, USA, Aragon started watching NASCAR in 2004 and has been covering the sport since 2009. Aragon is a 2012 graduate of Grants High School and a May 2016 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism. Aragon has worked in local and national media, as a musician, and an educator. He is co-author of the 2024 book "All of It: Daytona 500 Champion Tells the Rest of the Story" with racer Geoff Bodine.
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