They say revenge is a dish best served cold. But Denny Hamlin stands an exception as he took his revenge on Ross Chastain in the desert heat of Phoenix. After fans, spotters, and almost everyone else was wondering and demanding Hamlin last season to deliver payback to Ross Chastain, he finally did it.

Hamlin had his revenge on the Watermelon man.

Denny Hamlin saw the opportunity to take revenge and did

Speaking in a recent episode of his podcast show, Actions Detrimental, Hamlin opened up on why it took him so long to take his revenge and why the conditions towards the end of the Phoenix race were ideal.

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Ross Chastain realized he had it coming according to Hamlin

Having revealed what he did in Phoenix was intentional, Denny Hamlin also revealed that Chastain more or less knew what happened to him was something he deserved.

In fact, Hamlin gave the #1 driver props considering if the latter had known he was going to be pushed into the wall, he’d be “the hardest guy to wreck on the planet.”

The veteran revealed how Chastain came up to him after the race and told him, “I guess I deserve it,” to which he replied, “Yeah, I think so.”

Hamlin claimed that he and Chastain are now “in a better place” in which they’re willing to put what happened behind them.

“I think that we’re going to judge each other from this point forward, and I think that’s the fairest way to do it,” he added.

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