I don't think he's paying the fine? Nascar will be taking it out of his weekly winnings. I'm not a big Hamlin fan, but I think he has a point here. What he said wasn't worthy of a $25K fine, and it was more of a nascar flexing it's muscle, and trying to enforce censorship amongst it's race teams. While I understand the necessity for not bashing the product, or biting the hand that feeds you, if you can't offer up a decent, honest answer to questions everyone knows the answer to, then maybe they should tell the media not to bother asking, because we're not talking anymore?