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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.
START IT UP: At the Daytona 500, Gibbs started 33^rd and finished 25^th after a punctured tire late in the event put him two laps down. Last week at Fontana he finished 16^th.
LAS VEGAS: In 2023, Gibbs started 19^th and finished 22^nd in the Cup race at Las Vegas driving for 23XI Racing. He has three Xfinity Series starts and has never started or finished lower than 11^th. He won the spring race in 2022 after leading six laps.
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 37^th 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 16^th. He has competed in 15 Cup races with a best finish of 10^th at Michigan International Speedway.
NEW RECORD: Gibbs is the youngest driver ever to reach 11 victories in the NASCAR Xfinity Series at age 21 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 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.
JGR AT LAS VEGAS: Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) has 96 total starts at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Cup competition with four wins, 26 top-five finishes, 49 top-10 finishes, six poles and the team has led 1010 laps.
RACE INFO: The NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas is scheduled for 3:30 pm EST on Sunday, March 5 and will be broadcast on FOX, SiriusXM Channel 90 and PRN.

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

“I like going to Las Vegas and the track is fun to drive. We won the Xfinity race there last year so hopefully we can build on that and run well in the Cup car. We had a cut tire at Daytona and we’re in an accident at Fontana that damaged the nose on our car, but we’ve run well for the most part. I’m ready to see what we can do.”

Chris Gayle, Crew Chief of the No. 54 He Gets Us Toyota Camry TRD

“Las Vegas is a fun track and Ty has been successful there before in Xfinity. We’ve run well this year, but have been caught up in a couple of things. But last week even with the damage, he drove to 16^th and I’m ready to see what we can do at Las Vegas.”

Gibbs 2023 NASCAR Cup Series Stats