{"id":20477,"date":"2025-10-13T10:21:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=20477"},"modified":"2025-10-13T10:21:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T15:21:20","slug":"hamlin-seizes-vegas-win-to-clinch-champ-4-berth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/more-sports\/20477-hamlin-seizes-vegas-win-to-clinch-champ-4-berth\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamlin Seizes Vegas Win to Clinch Champ 4 Berth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Denny Hamlin scored an emotional victory and claimed a significant career milestone with a dramatic NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs Round of 8 win in Sunday&#8217;s South Point 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n<p>Hamlin passed two cars in the final 10 laps, ultimately taking the lead from his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Chase Briscoe with four laps remaining and then holding off the day&#8217;s most dominant driver, Kyle Larson, by 1.533 seconds to claim a series-best sixth win of the season and 60th of his Cup career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denny Hamlin scored an emotional victory and claimed a significant career milestone with a dramatic NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs Round of 8 win in Sunday&#8217;s South Point 400 at Las [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-more-sports"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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