No. 54 Monster Energy Toyota Camry XSE News and Notes
- SECOND SEASON: Ty Gibbs is competing in his second full NASCAR Cup Series season driving the No. 54 Monster Energy Toyota Camry XSE for Joe Gibbs Racing. He has five top-10 and three top-five finishes and sixth in points. He has led 200 laps this season, which is the most he has led in any Cup season. He is fourth in the series in percentage of laps led.
- AVERAGE START/FINISH: Ty Gibbs average start is 10.7 which is sixth in NASCAR and his average finish is 10.6 which ranks fourth.
- TALLADEGA: Gibbs has only three NASCAR Cup Series starts at Talladega Speedway with a best finish of 31st in the spring of 2023. He has two Xfinity Series starts with a best finish of seventh in the fall of 2022.
- TITLES: Gibbs has won the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series Rookie of the Year, 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series Champion, 2021 ARCA Menards Series Championship and 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Rookie of the Year.
- 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 GEICO 500 starts at 3 pm EDT on Sunday, April 21 and will be broadcast on FOX, SiriusXM Channel 90 and MRN.
Ty Gibbs, Driver of the No. 54 Monster Energy Toyota Camry XSE:
“Talladega is a wild card and we haven’t had good finishes there in Cup, so hopefully that will change this week. I’ve never finished all 500 miles, so hopefully we can do that and get a good finish in our Monster Energy Toyota Camry XSE.”
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