Denny Hamlin, who has won the past two Bristol Cup races, enters Saturday night's race six points below the cutline.

Former title favorite Hamlin heads to Bristol Motor Speedway only thinking about the checkered flag: "I’m going to be on the offense, starting right away."

The house of horrors that was Denny Hamlin’s opening Round of 16 in the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs finally had a well-timed bright spot, one that lifted the veteran out of a daunting postseason deficit.

Going into Saturday's Bristol Night race, one of the biggest storylines was whether Denny Hamlin could do enough to advance to the second round of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. Yes, Hamlin had won the last two races at Bristol,