No. 54 He Gets Us Toyota Camry XSE News and Notes
- SECOND SEASON: Ty Gibbs is competing in his second full NASCAR Cup Series season driving the No. 54 He Gets Us Toyota Camry XSE for Joe Gibbs Racing. He finished 18th in 2023 Cup points, with four top-five and 10 top-10 finishes. He led 112 laps.
- 2024: Gibbs started 15th and finished 17th in the Daytona 500 and started 25th and finished 10th at Atlanta. He is 14th in the Cup Series point standings.
- LAS VEGAS: Gibbs has only three Cup starts at Las Vegas has a best finish of 22nd. He started fourth in the spring of 2023. He has three NASCAR Xfinity starts at Las Vegas and won the spring 2022 race.
- 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 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 2024 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.
- RACE INFO: The Pennzoil 400 starts at 3:30 pm EST on Sunday, March 3 and will be broadcast on FOX, SiriusXM Channel 90 and MRN.
Ty Gibbs, Driver of the No. 54 He Gets Us Toyota Camry XSE:
“Good to have He Gets Us back on the No. 54 Toyota Camry XSE. Looking forward to Las Vegas and we’ve had success there in the Xfinity Series, but not as much in the Cup Series, so we’re hoping to change that. We will see what we can do and I’m excited about it.”
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