Denny Hamlin Update: Latest News on Back Injury from Auto 400 Crash

When Denny Hamlin will return to the racetrack remains up in the air.Hamlin was involved in a wreck at the Auto Club 400 on March 24. He was airlifted to a local hospital, and it was determined he had suffered a compression fracture in his back (h/t Jeff Gluck of USA Today). The seriousness of the injury is yet to be known.Gluck reported the following:  Austin Peyton, Hamlin's day-to-day business manager, told USA TODAY Sports that Hamlin is hoping to be released from the hospital Monday and fly home this afternoon to North Carolina for further evaluation by Dr. Jerry Petty of Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine Associates later this week. Hamlin is stable enough to return home, but Peyton said it is undetermined whether surger...

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