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A mistake by Toyota Racing Development will cost Denny Hamlin any chance to win the regular season title and possibl impact his chances to win the Cup championship.

NASCAR announced several penalties Thursday against Hamlin and Joe Gibbs Racing for an engine violation.

NASCAR docked Hamlin and Joe Gibbs Racing 75 points each and 10 playoff points each. Crew chief Chris Gabehart was fined $100,000.

Hamlin falls from third to sixth in the points. He now enters Saturday’s race at Daytona (7:30 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock), 103 points behind series leader Tyler Reddick with two races left in the regular season. The penalty also

“…I truly believe some of the arrogance that comes from the international crowd on the media side to just say ‘Meh, you can’t do that, Kyle Larson, that’s not a fair comparison,’ they just don’t even know what they’re talking about.”

Last week, Larson was asked by FloRacing if needs to beat Verstappen to be called the world’s best driver. “Not really. I know in my mind I am better than him as an all-around driver,” Larson said. “There’s no way [Verstappen] can get into a Sprint Car and win the Knoxville Nationals. No way he can go win the Chili Bowl. There’s no way he can go win a Cup race at Bristol. Probably no way I can go win a Formula 1 race at Monaco, but I think I’d have a better shot at him [doing what he does than him doing what I do] just because of the car element