Hamlin parked for bump-drafting
Hamlin was parked late in the session, though he said his Joe Gibbs Racing was finished in that practice anyway.
"They made a general warning right at the beginning to everyone to stop using the front bumpers, and after that I got hit probably 20 to 30 times," Hamlin said. "So I figured I'd just keep doing what I was doing. Right there at the end, I guess I was a little excessive."
"They said Gibbs cars in specific, they had an eye out on," Hamlin said. "I wonder what makes us different than anyone else, other than we were the first three cars in line. We were working well together, and when I say working well together, we were pushing each other well.
"But they said they didn't want any contact, and we broke that rule. So we're going sit have to sit out for a while."
NASCAR officials said they parked Hamlin for refusing to heed a NASCAR directive.
"I was finished anyway, so they parked me there at the end. We asked them, 'What's the difference between us and everyone else with the front and back bumpers beat off?' We were on TV when we were doing it. Daggone television cameras.
"We're done anyway. They can park us for 15 minutes, they could park us for an hour, they could park us for the rest of the day. We're done."