No. 4 Denny Hamlin

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Denny Hamlin's been on the move. He's in the top five in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series standings for the first time this year and his team is hoping the car that won in Martinsville a couple of weeks ago has some magic left in it for the Cup race at Richmond International Raceway.
Hamlin, who won the pole for the Richmond race, has not finished outside the top five in his past four races. That includes a win at Martinsville and two third-place finishes at Phoenix and last week at Talladega.
"It's fun to go to the track and hop in a really competitive car and see that you are racing with Tony (Stewart) and Kyle (Busch) because they are sitting in great equipment too," said Hamlin, driver of the No. 11 Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing. "With Richmond and Darlington coming up we have some good opportunities to keep this momentum and carry it on to Pocono and Indy and hopefully all the way through to the fall."
Hamlin's record at Richmond has been good. In four career Cup races, he has three top 10s, two top fives and his worst finish has been 15th in the fall race in 2006, when he won his first career Cup pole at Richmond.
"I think if anything, you want to win more and more the more times you come here," said Hamlin, a Virginia native. "The fans here are the best and they have been really supportive from day one and when we all celebrated some of the milestones -- like making the Chase and winning a pole -- here together. Winning the pole here was a real highlight for me, I would put it up with any win. There is just something about running well at your home track -- it just means more."

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