Denny Hamlin chats with NASCAR.com's Alex Weaver after a fifth-place finish at Martinsville Speedway wasn't enough to clinch a Championship 4 berth.
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00:00Denny Hamlin, unfortunately, short for the championship four, but let's first talk about
00:04the effort of the 11 crew this weekend.
00:06Complete repair of the car after that damage in practice.
00:09What can you say about the effort here this weekend?
00:11Great effort by the team.
00:12They certainly gave me a good car yesterday, and certainly we bent it up a little bit,
00:18but just a fourth, fifth place car today, and that's kind of where we hung out, and
00:23even when we were at our best, it was just kind of good enough to keep up, and obviously
00:27there were a few cars that were staying out, and they won.
00:31The bigger picture and collectively with this playoffs, where do you look back and say,
00:34hey, we could have done this better, and we wouldn't have been in this position?
00:38I mean, there was, obviously, we had an engine ordeal that cost us a lot of points every
00:43single round that was very, very difficult.
00:47You know, there was opportunities to get stage points.
00:49We didn't do it in a few of the races, but overall, I just want to win, and I just feel
00:54like we've lacked a little bit of speed here for the last, really, couple months.
01:01We didn't have the speed that we had earlier in the year, and that's something that you
01:05got to have here at the end of the season.