“Every Year, EVERY YEAR”: Denny Hamlin Cries Out in Frustration as Playoff Curse Strikes Again

Denny Hamlin’s playoff dreams took another gut punch at Kansas Speedway’s Hollywood Casino 400, and the frustration was raw. Leading off pit road on Lap 213, Hamlin had the No. 11 Toyota humming, holding off Bubba Wallace, Chase Elliott, and a pack of playoff heavyweights.

But by Lap 215, disaster loomed. “There is something wrong with the f****** steering. It’s sticking bad,” he radioed, his voice dripping with dread. “If I swerve, when I go to the right, it goes ‘click, click’ … I think it’s broke! F**k! Power steering.”

Without power steering, a must for Next Gen cars, Hamlin’s race was unraveling fast. “I don’t know what to do. I can’t f*ing believe it,” he vented, the weight of another playoff setback crashing down. Then came the gut-wrenching kicker: “Every year. Every. Year.”

For Hamlin, a three-time Daytona 500 champ still chasing that elusive Cup title, it’s a curse that stings. Kansas was a chance to climb from 11th in the standings, 23 points below the Round of 8 cut, but the steering rack failure, confirmed as a likely break, tanked his shot.

Wallace, running second, and others like Bell and Larson stayed in the hunt, but Hamlin’s day turned into damage control.

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