TC Daily Pit Stop: Denny Hamlin (The Driver) Unapologetic for Last-Lap Move at Kansas; Andrew Patterson Making Xfinity Debut

TC Daily Pit Stop: Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Oct 01, 2025

Joseph Srigley — Photo: Nigel Kinrade, Lumen Digital Agency

“If they’re wanting an apology, they can turn [it] off now.”

Denny Hamlin will absolutely not, under any circumstances, be issuing any kind of apology for the events that unfolded on the final lap of Sunday’s Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway… and honestly, why should he?

There was no question that Hamlin was the driver to beat all afternoon, leading a race-high 159 laps, but got shuffled out of contention late in the race due to a caution flag for Kyle Busch’s tire carcass laying in the middle of the racetrack – which began a sequence of events leading into NASCAR Overtime.

“On Sunday, I am the driver,” he added. “The person in the No. 11 car is the driver, that’s where the disconnect, I think, comes from, is that people expect me to be a different person, they expect me to be the guy with the 23XI shirt on when I’m in the No. 11 car, and that’s just not possible. I had zero doubts in my mind, I know because I know where my mind was in that moment, is that I was racing the No. 23 the same as I would race anybody in that moment.”

Andrew Patterson Tapped for Xfinity Debut with JAR at Charlotte ROVAL

Andrew Patterson NASCAR Xfinity Series Charlotte ROVAL Jordan Anderson Racing — Photo: Jonathan McCoy, TobyChristie.com

Andrew Patterson, a part-time driver and team owner in the ARCA Menards Series, will get the opportunity of a lifetime as NASCAR’s National Series return home to Charlotte Motor Speedway’s ROVAL this weekend.

Patterson, a native of Statesville, North Carolina, will attempt to make his NASCAR Xfinity Series debut this weekend, piloting the No. 32 Chevrolet for Jordan Anderson Racing.

WinSupply of Dayton and SCS Gearbox, both sponsors of his efforts in the ARCA Menards Series, will serve as primary partners of Patterson’s first Xfinity Series voyage on October 4.

While competing in the NASCAR Xfinity Series (at least as a driver) will be a totally foreign experience for the 22-year-old driver, there should still be some comfort being in the garage of the second-tier series, having been a part of the Jordan Anderson Racing crew since 2020.