A fire at the home of NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin's parents on Sunday left his father dead and his mother injured, officials confirmed to ABC News.Firefighters in Gaston County, North Carolina, were dispatched at 6:19 p.

Dennis Hamlin, the father of NASCAR star driver and Chesterfield native Denny Hamlin, was killed in a house fire on Sunday.

Denny's mother, 69-year-old Mary Lou Hamlin, was "critically injured" in the blaze, the outlet reported