During the Gen-6 era, Hamlin won three Daytona 500s (2016, 2019, 2020) and has finished outside the top-five only twice in the past nine races.
Earlier in his career, Hamlin’s results in NASCAR’s biggest race weren’t nearly as impressive. During the Gen-5 and C.O.T. era from 2006 to 2012, he posted just one result above 17th in the Daytona 500 — a fourth-place finish in 2012.
So what makes Hamlin so good at Daytona over the last decade? “I just think I have a good understanding of the air here and how it moves around the walls,” he said during Media Day on Wednesday. “Talladega is different. If you look at our results, we haven’t won as much at Talladega, but we’ve been pretty good. Here, there is just something about – whatever it is – the banking or the width of the track, height of the walls or something that I just kind of know where those little pockets of air are it seems like that are a little bit better.”
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