NASCAR: Denny Hamlin talks latest FedEx safety initiative

In an interview with FanSided’s Mark Carman, NASCAR Cup Series driver Denny Hamlin discussed FedEx’s safety initiative regarding distracted walking and distracted driving.

Joe Gibbs Racing NASCAR Cup Series driver Denny Hamlin recently caught up with FanSided’s own Mark Carman to discuss the safety initiative being promoted by his primary sponsor, FedEx, ahead of this Sunday’s race.

Hamlin, a 34-time race winner at the Cup Series level, will be running special FedEx Cares/Safe Kids Worldwide paint scheme on his #11 Toyota to help raise awareness about distracted walking and distracted driving in this Sunday’s race, the Go Bowling at The Glen, at Watkins Glen International.

Leading up to this 90-lap race around the eight-turn, 2.454-mile (3.949-kilometer) Watkins Glen International road course in Watkins Glen, New York, here is what the 38-year-old Chesterfield, Virginia native had to say about the matter in his interview with Carman.

"“People are on their phones constantly. It doesn’t matter. We’re looking down. How many times…we’ve all been walking and texting and run right into something, right? Well, if you’re doing it on the street, it’s probably a bad idea.“Really the awareness is about the safe kids worldwide. I’ve worked with them before and we’ve walked some kids to school. That’s really what we’re focusing on. We’re about to start school season all over the U.S. and so many kids are going to be walking to school or walking to the bus stop or whatever it might be.“Let’s try to make both the drivers and the kids and parents aware. Let’s be a little bit more aware this school season more so than we were last year.”"