Denny Hamlin

Denny Hamlin is a heavyweight of modern NASCAR, and the numbers back it up: 63 Cup Series wins driving the No. 11 Toyota Camry for Joe Gibbs Racing. What makes him doubly interesting to me is the owner side, co-running 23XI Racing alongside Michael Jordan, which is a fascinating crossover of motorsport and basketball royalty. The Tampa native has been a fixture at the front of the field for years, the kind of perennial contender whose win total quietly stacks toward all-time territory. I find the driver-turned-team-owner duality the most compelling part of his story; he's shaping the sport from both seats.

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Name (English)

Denny Hamlin

Name (Japanese)

デニー・ハムリン

Reading

でにー・はむりん

Born

November 18, 1980 (age 45)

Origin

Tampa, Florida, United States

Height

183 cm

Occupation

racing automobile driver

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Monkey

High school

Manchester High School

• Official sitehttps://www.dennyhamlin.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denny%20Hamlin
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%A0%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q721634

Tags

• Florida
• racing automobile driver

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.