Denny Hamlin may have qualified for the Championship 4, but he was not satisfied with his performance in the Martinsville Speedway elimination race on Sunday.

When Hamlin and Alex Bowman collided for the lead, the No. 11 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota spun.

Bowman won the race, while Hamlin came in 24th.

Tensions boiled over after Bowman’s fourth victory of the 2021 season, as he prepared to do burnouts at the start/finish line. Hamlin pulled up alongside the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports driver. Before driving away, he stepped on the gas and displayed the middle finger.

Following that, he used his post-race interview to tear into Bowman.

“He’s just a hack,” he said as the crowd erupted into boos. “Just an absolute hack. He gets his ass kicked by his teammates every week. He’s (expletive) terrible. He’s just terrible. He sees one opportunity, he takes it.

“He didn’t want to race us there. We had a good, clean race. I moved up as high as I could on the racetrack to give him all the room I could, he still can’t drive.”

Hamlin dismissed the boos from the audience when asked about them. “It’s just Chase Elliott fans, man. They don’t think straightly.” He then added that it doesn’t bother him and he expects they will “boo the shit out of me next week, I can tell you that.”

Bowman defended himself and claims there was no intent on his part. “No, I just got loose underneath. I’m not trying to drive underneath there and crash the guy. I got under him fair, under him clean. I just got sideways underneath him, spun him out. Hate to do that. Obviously unintentional. Part of short-track racing.”

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