Hamlin: No fix to the carnage at plate races

Denny Hamlin

Denny Hamlin doesn't think there is an easy fix to the carnage we see at almost every NASCAR restrictor plate race.

"There's only two fixes," he told ESPN at an appearance at a Boys & Girls Club in Concord, North Carolina, on Monday. "You have to slow us way down, like 50mph, or you're gonna have to let us run 250 there and get spread out. That to me is the only way you're gonna avoid these mass wrecks.

"The reason we're all wrecking in the horrific fashion that we're wrecking is because when someone gets turned sideways, there's someone else right there to lift them up. I think the 20 car actually got air without being assisted, but most of those other ones, they're getting driven up in the air, and as long as there are 20 cars in a one-second pack, it's going to happen.

"We talk about this every two to three restrictor-plate races and there's just no fix because we haven't done it yet. We don't know; the only thing you can do from my standpoint in the ignorance that I have is that you have to slow us way down or speed us way up. We have to get spread apart; that's the only way you're not going to have these crazy crashes."