5 months ago
- U.S. & World
- Updated: Dec. 29, 2025, 3:54 p.m.
- Published: Dec. 29, 2025, 3:52 p.m.
Fans are praying for a NASCAR fable pursuing a occurrence astatine a location wherever his parents live.
According to WCNC-TV successful Charlotte, officials successful Gaston County, North Carolina responded to nan location of Denny Hamlin’s parents connected Sunday. One personification is confirmed dead, and different is earnestly hurt, according to nan TV station, but they person not been identified.
Property records bespeak nan location is owned by Hamlin, who has 60 NASCAR Cup Series victories successful his profession and is wide regarded arsenic nan top driver successful NASCAR history to ne'er person won a championship.
It took astir a twelve different departments 2 hours to extinguish nan fire. The origin is nether investigation.
“They had immoderate really costly cars successful nan car shed and immoderate racing memorabilia and stuff, truthful each that was saved,” Lucia-Riverbend Fire Department Chief David Toomey told The Athletic.
“We were capable to prevention each that and get it retired truthful it wasn’t damaged.”
The section posted several photos of nan blaze to Facebook.
Hamlin, NASCAR’s 2006 Cup Series rookie of nan twelvemonth and three-time Daytona 500 champion, vanished 2nd successful nan 2025 standings, losing to champion Kyle Larson by 4 points.
He won six races and had 14 apical 5 finishes this play and besides co-owns nan 23XI Racing NASCAR squad pinch NBA fable Michael Jordan. Hamlin was named 1 of NASCAR’s 75 Greatest Drivers successful 2023.
Brandon Champion is simply a newsman connected MLive's statewide trending squad based successful Grand Rapids. He writes astir a assortment of topics, but mostly crime and courts successful Metro Detroit, Northern Michigan and nan Upper...
