1-on-1 with NASCAR’s Denny Hamlin: Coca-Cola 600 win is his career’s ‘highest priority’

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Denny Hamlin has already won two of NASCAR’s six completed races this season, but the consecutive Daytona 500 winner is not yet satisfied. He wants to take the checkered flag at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Sunday more than anything.“It’s a race that’s the highest priority for me to win in my career,” Hamlin told The Charlotte Observer.Hamlin’s Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, Martin Truex Jr., won last year’s Coca-Cola 600, but the No. 11 driver has never won the crown jewel event himself despite his 39 Cup Series wins.The morning after Hamlin secured a victory at Wednesday night’s…

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