NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin recently revisited one that slipped right past most of us late last year.

Turns out, Hamlin hit it big in the $2 billion dollar Powerball draw back in November. He even tweeted about it back then. That said, no, he didn’t hit the jackpot, but he said he came pretty, darned close, according to a report.

How close?

Well, in the latest edition of his new podcast, Hamlin said that he hit five — four of the five regular numbers and the Powerball — in the drawing. The 42-year-old Daytona 500 winner said he bought $300 worth of the tickets at a gas station.

“So he gives me the tickets, and I have them and the we go to dinner,” Hamlin said. “They drew the Powerball. I come home. I’m brushing my teeth and the Powerball tickets are sitting there face up and the very first ticket that that nice gentleman (at the gas station) printed, hit five of the six numbers on Powerball. I was only missing the one number.”

Hamlin said he looked it up and the odds of him hitting that were one in a million. Hamlin said he wished he would have known to play the Power Play, but still figures he did pretty good.

“I never played the Powerball, but the very first ticket that got printed — Bam!,” he said. “I hit five of six numbers.”

According to the Powerball website the payout for Hamlin’s ticket would have been $50,000.

Hamlin said he got recognized while waiting to cash the ticket, and took a photo with a fan who said he had been playing the numbers his whole life and never hit it so big.

“I just kind of felt bad that I was cashing out this big ticket when likely there were these people who were lifers in there that had never hit it,” he said.

Hamlin currently sits at sixth in the NASCAR points standings with 99 after three races.