Denny Hamlin, driver of the #11 FedEx Ground Toyota, leads the field to the green flag to start the Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway Sunday. After a wild double OT run, he’d be there for the checkered flag as well. (James Gilbert/Getty Images)
Sunday night‘s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway started with Denny Hamlin out front and ended with Denny Hamlin out front.
What happened in between defied belief. And a driver who claimed to thrive in chaos proved to be a man of his word.
Hamlin won the longest race in NASCAR history — 619.5 miles — in two overtimes, beating Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch to the finish line by 0.014 s…
