“Bro’s gonna use up all his luck at the slot machines instead of the race track.” A fan’s cryptic warning may have turned a little too true for Denny Hamlin. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver made a splash in Las Vegas – not on the racetrack, but in a casino. Starting with 11 grand, whatever investment he made ballooned into a much higher amount.
However, Lady Luck deserted him a little too long after Hamlin’s jackpot – leading to a spine-chilling disaster in his North Carolina home.
Denny Hamlin and his family brush with a fiery fallout
As a 54-time Cup Series race winner, the veteran has a lavish home. Having completed it in 2016 on a 2.8-acre lot on Lake Norman, North Carolina, Denny Hamlin revamped the house several times. Worth $1.375 million initially, a 30,000-square-foot lakefront house comes with six bedrooms, seven bathrooms, and two half-baths. It is worth a reported $9.7 million right now. Hamlin shares this property with a beautiful family, with partner Jordan Fish and daughters Molly and Taylor. However, a dangerous mishap could have easily derailed their happiness.
After Denny Hamlin won around $330 grand on his Sin City adventure, he had a sinister fate lined up for him. The veteran NASCAR driver posted a series of stories on Instagram to indicate what happened. Without writing anything on the first two, he conveyed horrific scenes of his home. The camera panned across a big patch of his lawn which caught flames like a biblical fire – right at the edge of his house. This chilling video was immediately accompanied by another, which was a little relieving. The flames had been doused, and just a black patch remained on the affected area.
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Clearly, Lady Luck left Denny Hamlin’s midst for too long after Las Vegas. Thankfully, he and his family detected the danger quickly and called fire crew responders to the scene. In a later story on Instagram, Hamlin explained what happened in a small caption: “Lawnmower caught fire.” He panned the camera towards the emergency crew who were still hosing out his lawn, in a mark of gratitude.
Apparently, things went a little too haywire for Denny Hamlin after Las Vegas. Here’s to ending truckloads of luck for the NASCAR driver and his family!
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