Wednesday, March 22, 2023

Ty Gibbs is 50/1 to win at COTA


Ty Gibbs / No. 54 He Gets Us Toyota Camry TRD Preview

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No. 54 He Gets Us Toyota Camry TRD News and Notes

  • FIRST SEASON: Ty Gibbs is competing in his first full NASCAR Cup Series season driving the No. 54 He Gets Us Toyota Camry TRD.
  • 2023: Gibbs is 19th in the NASCAR point standing and scored his first top-10 of the season last week at Atlanta Motor Speedway when he finished ninth.  
  • COTA: Gibbs has only one NASCAR Xfinity start at Circuit of the Americas in Austin in 2022 when he started on the pole, led one lap and finished 15th
  • ONE OF THIRTY-SEVEN: Gibbs made his first career NASCAR Cup Series start in July 2022 at Pocono Raceway for 23XI Racing. Gibbs is the 37th driver younger than 20-years old to make a Cup Series start. Gibbs started at the rear of the field, but completed all 160 laps and finished an impressive 16th. He has competed in 15 Cup races with a best finish of 10th at Michigan International Speedway.
  • NEW RECORD: Gibbs is the youngest driver ever to reach 11 victories in the NASCAR Xfinity Series at age 20 years, one month and one day old. The previous record was held by Joey Logano.
  • 2021: Gibbs completed in only 18 Xfinity races in 2021, but won four races and finished 13th in the Xfinity Series final driver point standings. That earned him the Xfinity Rookie of the Year award.
  • WHAT A DEBUT: In Gibbs’ Xfinity Series debut in February 2021 at the Daytona Road Course, he led 14 of the 56 laps en route to his first career Xfinity Series win. Gibbs became the youngest driver to win a Xfinity road course race at 18 years, 4 months, 16 days. The Charlotte, N.C., native also became the second-youngest winner in Xfinity Series history after Joey Logano who won in June 2008 at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta when he was 18 years and 21 days old.
  • IN GOOD COMPANY: Gibbs is the sixth driver to win in his Xfinity Series debut, joining Dale Earnhardt, Joe Ruttman, Ricky Rudd, Terry Labonte and Kurt Busch. Those five drivers had already driven in the NASCAR Cup Series before racing in the Xfinity Series.
  • ARCA CHAMPIONS: Gibbs became the 2021 ARCA Menard Series Champions on the strength of 10 wins, plus one win each in ARCA West and ARCA East.
  • ATOP THE PIT BOX: Veteran crew chief Chris Gayle will oversee the No. 54 team’s efforts in the 2023 season. Gale, who is from Little Rock, Arkansas, has led his drivers to two NASCAR Cup Series victories and 37 Xfinity Series wins. He was also the crew chief of the 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series championship with Gibbs. The list of drivers Gayle has visited victory lane with includes Gibbs, Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Sam Hornish Jr., Erik Jones, Elliott Sadler, Christopher Bell and John Hunter Nemechek.
  • JGR AT COTA: Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) has eight total starts at Circuit of the Americas in Cup competition with one top-five and three top-10 finishes and 18 laps led.
  • RACE INFO: The NASCAR Cup Series race at COTA is scheduled for 3:30 pm EDT on Sunday, March 26 and will be broadcast on FOX, SiriusXM Channel 90 and MRN.

 

Ty Gibbs, Driver of the No. 54 He Gets Us Toyota Camry TRD

“I really like going to COTA and I do love the road course events. I’m also doing the Xfinity race this week so it will be a busy weekend, but hopefully we can make the best of it. Great to have He Gets Us on board for the Cup race and Monster Energy for the Xfinity event. I’m looking forward to a great weekend.”

 

 

Gibbs 2023 NASCAR Cup Series Stats

Starts

Wins

Top 5

Top 10

Poles

Laps Led

Avg. Start

Avg. Finish

5

0

0

1

0

0

21.8

20.0

 

 

Gibbs 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Stats

Starts

Wins

Top 5

Top 10

Poles

Laps Led

Avg. Start

Avg. Finish

15

0

0

1

0

2

17.0

22.9

 

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