NASCAR fans around the country are offering their thoughts and prayers to longtime Cup Series driver Denny Hamlin. Hamlin's parents were involved in a "catastrophic" fire at their house in North Carolina.

In his first public comments since his father died in a Gaston County house fire this week, NASCAR star driver Denny Hamlin thanked the community Wednesday for its support. "Thank you to everyone who has reached out with condolences on my father's passing,