Denny Hamlin and William Byron Clash at Texas – Motorsports Tribune

Hamlin was able to get back going in short order and attempted to take his position back before the spin, but NASCAR ultimately ruled he had to fall in line where he rejoined the running order.

Though the two found themselves lined up behind one another during a later restart, neither took any further action on track as Byron finished the night in eighth place and Hamlin rounded out the top-10 with a 10^th place finish.

Afterwards, Byron noted that his move to spin out Hamlin was his way of sending a message that he was not going to stand for someone taking advantage of him.

“He ran me out of room and bent the toe link. We are lucky we finished. It was really hard contact…it wasn’t like a light contact or something like that.

“I went to go show my displeasure and I didn’t mean to spin him out. There are a ton of guys that do this and go do something like that…see it all the time. But yeah, I am just not going to get run like that and there is really no reason. I mean we are running second and third I think and had a shot to win, and it killed our car for sure. That was a bummer.”

Meanwhile, Hamlin expressed his thoughts on the incident, explaining that things were not over between them and would likely linger into the weeks ahead.

“I’ll just add it to the list of guys when I get a chance. They’re going to get it,” Hamlin said.

“It all just works itself out. We’ll be racing each other at some point. He’ll lose a lot of spots because he’s racing me. This is hard racing, obviously. I’m fine with hard racing.

“But wrecking me under caution is obviously not what we were bargaining for. So, thanks to my…