Ty Gibbs

Tyler Randall Gibbs (born October 4, 2002) is an American professional stock car racing driver and team owner. He competes full-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the No. 54 Toyota Camry XSE for Joe Gibbs Racing. Gibbs was the 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series champion and 2021 ARCA Menards Series champion. He is the grandson of NFL Hall-of-Famer and NASCAR team owner Joe Gibbs. He is also the owner of JGR's No. 54 in the O'Reilly Auto Parts Series.

Racing career

Gibbs began racing in go-karts, on asphalt and dirt tracks in Mooresville, North Carolina.^[1] In 2019, Gibbs won the IceBreaker 125 Late Model Stock race at Myrtle Beach Speedway, driving the No. 18 for Nelson Motorsports.^[2]

CARS Late Model Stock Tour

In 2017 and 2018, Gibbs competed in the CARS Late Model Stock series for Marlowe Racing. He finished fourteenth in the season points standings in 2017 (due to Gibbs only competing in eight out of thirteen races that year), and eighth in 2018. He has two pole positions, has led 90 laps, and has an average finish of 13.3, with a best finish of second at Anderson Motor Speedway.^[3]

ARCA Menards Series East

Gibbs ran a partial schedule in the 2019 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East, collecting four second-place finishes in five starts in the DGR-Crosley No. 17. On September 21, Gibbs scored his first career win in his sixth start at the Apple Barrel 125 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in the No. 54.^[4] He would compete full-time in the series, now known as the ARCA Menards Series East, the following year. He drove the No. 18 for Joe Gibbs Racing, which was fielding an entry in the series for the first time since 2012. Gibbs would win one of the series' six races on the schedule (Toledo Speedway in June) and finish runner-up to Sam Mayer in the standings, who won all other races that year. Gibbs led 104 laps at Dover in the General Tire 125 before crashing out late, marking his only DNF in the series and only finish outside the top four in any year.^[5]

He made four starts in the 2021 season, three of which were companion events with the main ARCA Menards Series. Gibbs won the pole position and the race in all four starts, leading 621 of the 625 laps he completed. As a result, he finished ninth in the standings.^[5]

ARCA Menards Series West

Gibbs made his debut in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West in the 2019 season-finale at ISM Raceway, going on to win the race. Joe Gibbs Racing fielded cars for him and his ARCA teammate Riley Herbst in this race, using owner points from both of Levin Racing's cars, with Herbst driving the No. 10 and Gibbs driving the No. 40. He returned to run the same race the following year, this time with JGR fielding their own No. 18 car with their owner points. He led the most laps in the event but finished second after being passed by David Gilliland on the final lap. In 2021, Gibbs ran both races at Phoenix, starting on the pole and winning both events. The first event in March was a companion event with the main ARCA Menards Series, while the second race in November was the West Series season finale. Gibbs led 124 of 150 laps in the March race and all 100 laps in the fall race. He finished 19th in both the 2020 and 2021 standings.^[6]

ARCA Menards Series

Gibbs has won 18 ARCA Menards Series races and collected 38 top-five finishes in a total of 47 starts.^[7]

In 2019, Gibbs ran eleven of twenty races in the ARCA Menards Series, finishing thirteenth in the standings after picking up wins at Gateway and Salem. The next year he competed in 16 of 20 races and finished fifth in the standings, collecting wins at Gateway, Pocono, Kentucky, Iowa, Winchester, and Memphis.^[7][8]

Gibbs turned eighteen on October 4, 2020, which made him eligible to race on all tracks on the ARCA schedule (including Daytona and Talladega). In 2021, Gibbs ran full-time in the series in the JGR No. 18.^[9] He started the season with a 4th-place finish at Daytona, followed by a win at Phoenix and a 27th-place finish at Talladega after being involved in a crash with Greg Van Alst.^[10] At Kansas in May, he led every lap in the race en route to the win, the first time since Kevin Swindell in 2012 at Chicagoland Speedway that a driver in the series led all laps in a race. Gibbs would later replicate this feat at Charlotte two races later and at the Milwaukee Mile in August.^[7]

Gibbs ended the 2021 season as champion, having won ten out of twenty races. He spent the season in a close points battle with Corey Heim and finished in the top five in every race except Talladega Superspeedway, where he crashed out of the top five and finished 27th.^[7]

Xfinity Series

2021

On January 26, 2021, JGR announced that Gibbs would make his Xfinity Series debut in 2021 at the Daytona Road Course, which would be the first race of a part-time schedule he would run in the team's No. 54 car. He shared the ride with Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Martin Truex Jr., John Hunter Nemechek, and Ty Dillon.^[9]

On the Daytona Road Course, Gibbs held off Austin Cindric in overtime to win, becoming the sixth driver to win in their Xfinity debut (after Dale Earnhardt, Ricky Rudd, Joe Ruttman, Terry Labonte, and Kurt Busch) and the first to do so without prior experience in the NASCAR Cup Series. He was also the only driver in the modern era (1972–present) to win their first NASCAR national series race until Shane van Gisbergen.^[11][12] At eighteen years, four months, and sixteen days of age, Gibbs surpassed Cindric as the youngest driver to win an Xfinity road course race, until he was surpassed by Connor Zilisch in the 2024 Mission 200 at The Glen.^[13] Gibbs later won again at Charlotte Motor Speedway in May. At Road America, one of Gibbs's races, Kyle Busch ran the No. 54, leading JGR to put Gibbs in the No. 81 with Monster Energy as a sponsor. Gibbs would end up 33rd after a broken transmission. At Watkins Glen International in the No. 54, Gibbs led the most laps and won after holding off Austin Cindric and A. J. Allmendinger. He later led the most laps in the race at Richmond Raceway in September before ending up seventh. Gibbs got his fourth win of the season in the Kansas Lottery 300 in October and finished the season thirteenth in the final standings, despite only having started eighteen of the season's 33 races in addition to winning Rookie of the Year honors.

2022: Xfinity Series Champion

For 2022, Gibbs moved into the series full-time, driving the No. 54. He won early in the season at Las Vegas, Atlanta, and Richmond. At the Martinsville spring race on April 8, Gibbs led 196 laps but was passed by teammate Brandon Jones on the final lap and finished eighth after a bump from Sam Mayer in the final turn. After the race, Gibbs ran into Mayer's car during the cool-down lap before both drivers engaged in a fistfight on pit road.^[14] Following this incident, Gibbs was fined US$15,000 for hitting Mayer's car on pit road after the race.^[15] Gibbs scored his fourth win at Road America in July by passing Kyle Larson on the final lap^[16] and claimed his fifth win of the season a month later at Michigan.^[17] At Watkins Glen, Gibbs fiercely battled William Byron for the lead throughout most of the race until they both spun off-course during the final restart, resulting in Gibbs finishing 27th after Byron spun Gibbs again later on in the lap.^[18] At the Martinsville playoff race, Gibbs made contact with Jones which sent him spinning towards outside wall on the final overtime lap to win the race despite having already clinched a spot in the Championship four on points.^[19] After the race, he compared himself to Jesus in an interview on the SiriusXM NASCAR channel, which earned him criticism from sections of the NASCAR fanbase.^[20][21] Nonetheless, Gibbs dominated at Phoenix to become the 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series champion.^[22]

2023: Part-time

Gibbs drove the No. 19 on a part-time basis in 2023, scoring one win at Indianapolis.^[23]

Cup Series

2022

On July 24, 2022, 23XI Racing announced that Gibbs would make his NASCAR Cup Series debut at the 2022 M&M's Fan Appreciation 400 at Pocono the same day, driving the No. 45 car as a fill-in for the original driver, Kurt Busch. Busch was not cleared by NASCAR to race after suffering from concussion-like symptoms following a crash during qualifying. Gibbs finished 16th in the race.^[24][25] Three days later, he would be announced to fill in again for Busch in the Verizon 200 at Indianapolis, where he finished 17th.^[26] In the FireKeepers Casino 400 at Michigan, Gibbs scored his first career top-10 with a 10th place finish,^[27][28] but finished 36th the following week at Richmond after an engine failure, but he surpassed his late father Coy.^[29] Gibbs filled in for Busch during the last two regular season races at Watkins Glen and Daytona, in which he finished 26th and 13th, respectively. On August 31, it was announced that he would swap rides with teammate Bubba Wallace and drive the No. 23 car starting at Darlington; Wallace went to the No. 45 to help the team's owners' championship efforts.^[30] At the Texas playoff race, Gibbs veered into Ty Dillon on pit road, nearly sending Dillon towards a NASCAR official and a group of pit crew members; he was subsequently fined US$75,000 and the No. 23 was docked 25 owner points.^[31] Gibbs would end up missing the last race of his fill-in role for 23XI, the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race, due to the death of his father Coy and was replaced by Daniel Hemric.^[32]

2023

In 2023, Gibbs joined the NASCAR Cup Series on a full-time basis, driving the newly rebranded No. 54 for Joe Gibbs Racing.^[33] Despite missing the playoffs, Gibbs achieved four top-five finishes and earned the NASCAR Rookie of the Year title.^[34][35]

2024: First playoff appearance

Gibbs scored his first career pole at Charlotte, and his second at Pocono. Despite not winning a race during the regular season, he stayed consistent enough to make the playoffs.^[36] Gibbs was eliminated from the playoffs at the conclusion of the Round of 16.^[37] After poor finishes in the final five races of the season, Gibbs finished the year fifteenth in the final point standings, a career best.

2025: In-Season Challenge winner

As part of a restructuring within Joe Gibbs Racing, Gibbs was assigned a new crew chief, Tyler Allen, while his former crew chief, Chris Gayle, transitioned to Denny Hamlin's No. 11 team, replacing Chris Gabehart, who moved into the role of competition director.^[38] At Martinsville, Gibbs passed J. J. Yeley to claim the unfortunate record of becoming the driver with the most Cup Series starts for JGR without a win, having run 79 races for the team to that point.^[39] Gibbs also won the inaugural NASCAR In-Season Challenge after defeating opponent Ty Dillon.^[40]

During the race at New Hampshire, Gibbs and his teammate Denny Hamlin got into one another, with Hamlin spinning out Gibbs.^[41] On September 22, Gibbs posted on his Instagram agreeing with Kevin Harvick, who said that the latest drama inside JGR was potentially derailing Hamlin's 2025 title run.^[42]

2026: First win

Gibbs started the 2026 season with a 23rd place finish at the Daytona 500. Two months later, he would earn his first win at Bristol in his 131st start, as well as becoming the sixth driver to get their first win at Bristol Motor Speedway.^[43]

Owner career

On October 16, 2024, it was announced that Gibbs would become a co-owner of Joe Gibbs Racing and would own the No. 54 Toyota Supra for the Xfinity Series starting in 2025.^[44]

Personal life

Gibbs is the grandson of former Washington Redskins head coach and owner of Joe Gibbs Racing, Joe Gibbs, and the son of the former Washington Redskins assistant coach and former NASCAR driver Coy Gibbs and Charlotte-area realtor Heather Gibbs. He is the nephew of the late Joe Gibbs Racing co-owner J. D. Gibbs, as well as the cousin of former Appalachian State Mountaineers quarterback Jackson Gibbs and Appalachian State tight end Miller Gibbs.^[45]

Motorsports career results

Stock car career summary

^† As Gibbs was a guest driver, he was ineligible for championship points.

NASCAR

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

Cup Series

Daytona 500

Xfinity Series

^* Season still in progress
¹ Ineligible for series points

ARCA Menards Series

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led. ** – All laps led.)

ARCA Menards Series East

ARCA Menards Series West

CARS Late Model Stock Car Tour

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led. ** – All laps led.)

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External links

• Official website
• Official profile at Joe Gibbs Racing