Denny Hamlin will stay at Joe Gibbs Racing and his 23XI Racing group will stay with Toyota as a part of promise extensions introduced Monday.

Hamlin indicated within the utmost while that he had affirmative to phrases with JGR previous this life, however he co-owns 23XI Racing (with NBA legend Michael Jordan), and negotiations to increase their offer with Toyota as neatly with JGR for a technical alliance went deep into the summer season. 

All of the trade in needed to be affirmative to earlier than any have been signed, as Hamlin couldn’t pressure a Toyota and personal a automotive of a competing producer. 

“Joe Gibbs Racing has been my home for almost 20 years now,” Hamlin stated in a JGR information let go. “My courting with Joe, my group, and everybody at JGR method a quantity to me.

“We’ve achieved such a lot in combination over time. I’m excited to in any case announce this so we will be able to put all our focal point on chasing the championship.”

Phrases of the trade in weren’t introduced.

“23XI will proceed its courting with Toyota into the age,” Hamlin said Monday night on his “Movements Damaging” podcast.

“Not anything actually adjustments. We’re taking to proceed at the trail that we’ve been on. … This type of solidifies all the ones trade in as finished.”

Hamlin has made all 641 of his Cup starts with JGR and has 50 career Cup wins, including three Daytona 500 victories. About the only thing he hasn’t done is win a championship. He has made the playoffs in 17 of his 18 seasons (including this year), just missing in 2013 when he missed four races with a broken back suffered in a race at California.

Hamlin first drove for JGR in the Xfinity Series in 2005 after being noticed by Joe Gibbs’ son J.D. when Hamlin was doing test laps in a car to be used at JGR diversity. 

“It’s wonderful to assume it’s been nearly twenty years since J.D. [Gibbs] first noticed him race and we signed him to that first promise,” group proprietor Joe Gibbs stated in a commentary.

“He has been a large a part of Joe Gibbs Racing ever since next and we stay up for that proceeding for years yet to come.”

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A courtside ticket holder of the Charlotte Hornets, Hamlin has long been friendly with Jordan, a motorsports enthusiast whose father would work on a race car owned by a Wilmington (N.C.) businessman. They formed 23XI Racing, which debuted in 2021 and this year put both its drivers, Tyler Reddick and Bubba Wallace, in the playoffs.

Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR for FOX Sports. He has spent decades covering motorsports, including the past 30 Daytona 500s, with stints at ESPN, Sporting News, NASCAR Scene magazine and The (Daytona Beach) News-Journal. Follow him on Twitter @bobpockrass, and sign up for the FOX Sports NASCAR Newsletter with Bob Pockrass.

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