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No. 54 Monster Energy Toyota Camry TRD News and Notes

• FIRST SEASON: Ty Gibbs is competing in his first full NASCAR Cup Series season driving the No. 54 Monster Energy Toyota Camry TRD.
• 2023: Gibbs is 18^th in the NASCAR point standings and has scored four top-five finishes, including a career best fourth at the Charlotte Roval. He finished fifth at Pocono, Watkins Glen and Bristol II. He also has nine top-10 finishes.
• HOMESTEAD: Gibbs has only one Cup Series start at Homestead where he finished 22^nd. Gibbs has started one Xfinity race where he started third and finished second. 
• NEW RECORD: Gibbs is the youngest driver ever to reach 12 victories in the NASCAR Xfinity Series at age 20 years, 10 months, one week 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 13^th 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.
• HOMESTEAD: Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) has 75 total starts at Homestead in Cup competition with eight wins, 20 top-five and 41 top-10 finishes. The team has led 1,740 laps.
• RACE INFO: The NASCAR Cup Series race at Homestead is scheduled for 2:30 pm EDT on Sunday, October 22 and will be broadcast on NBC, SiriusXM Channel 90 and MRN.

 

Ty Gibbs, Driver of the No. 54 Monster Energy Toyota Camry TRD

“Homestead is a great track and a lot of fun to drive. I’ve only raced there once in Cup and once in Xfinity, so it’s still sort of new to me. But I know that Chris Gayle and the 54 boys will bring a good Monster Energy Toyota Camry TRD.”

 

 

Gibbs 2023 NASCAR Cup Series Stats

Starts	Wins	Top 5	Top 10	Poles	Laps Led	Avg. Start	Avg. Finish
33	0	4	9	0	114	14.6	18.7

 

 

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