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 11 top-10 and seven top-five finishes and 15th in points 39 points ahead of 17th place Bubba Wallace. The top-16 advance to the Playoffs.
- LAPS LED: He has led 351 laps this season, which is the most he has led in any Cup season.
- FIRST: In May at Charlotte Motor Speedway, Gibbs scored his first career pole position in the Cup Series. He second pole position was won on July 13 at Pocono Raceway.
- SECOND: Gibbs finished a career-high second on May 12 at Darlington Raceway. He started fourth, led 34 laps and finished 1.214 seconds behind winner Brad Keselowski.
- THIRD: Gibbs finished third two weeks ago at Michigan and fifth last week at Daytona.
- AVERAGE START/FINISH: Ty Gibbs average start is 11.2 which is sixth in NASCAR and his average finish is 14.5 which is seventh.
- DARLINGTON: Gibbs has four Cup starts at Darlington, with a best finish of second in the spring of 2024. He has three starts in the Xfinity Series with best finish of sixth in the fall of 2024.
- 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. Gayle, 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 Southern 500 starts at 6 pm EDT on Sunday, September 1, and will be broadcast on USA, SiriusXM Channel 90 and MRN.
Ty Gibbs, Driver of the No. 54 Monster Energy Toyota Camry XSE:
“The Southern 500 has a lot of tradition and this is an important race for us as it’s the final one before the playoffs. We finished second there in spring and we can lock ourselves in with a win. We’ll do our best and I know we’ll have a good Monster Energy Toyota Camry XSE.”
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