Ty Gibbs
23-Year-Old Driver
Joe Gibbs Racing
2026 Cup Stats
Points
173
Starts
6
Wins
0
Poles
0
Top 5
3
Top 10
4
2026 Fantasy Outlook
The anticipation of the "breakout" has now grown a bit dim and the excitement of his rookie campaign is now growing longer in the rearview mirror. The 23-year-old talent once again was held out of victory lane in 2025 and is still seeking his first-career win. Gibbs also saw his Top 10 total shrink to just 10 last season and his average finish inflate to 17.9. Not good signs for a young driver that's supposed to be improving with each season and not regressing. Gibbs is now standing squarely in the shadows of the other drivers at Joe Gibbs Racing and beginning to look pale in comparison. The young driver will get another season in 2026 to possibly stage that long awaited breakout. Tyler Allen remains his crew chief to start the new season, but we wonder just how long that will hold up. Gibbs has been with three different crew chiefs in his short, three-and-a-half season run. It may not be that the crew chief is the issue. Read Past Outlooks
Comes Home Sixth
Gibbs finished sixth in Sunday's NASCAR Cup Series Goodyear 400 at Darlington Raceway after starting 28th.
ANALYSIS
It was a strong recovery for Gibbs, who qualified just 28th but managed to work his way up to sixth by the end of Sunday's race. He was the highest-finishing driver to start outside of the Top 20 as well as the highest-finishing Joe Gibbs Racing car. Gibbs used his long-run speed to grab his fourth Top-10 finish of the season. Up next, the Cup Series heads to Martinsville, where Gibbs has struggled since moving to the series, posting zero Top 10s in seven races, though he did qualify second in the most recent race at the track.
It was a strong recovery for Gibbs, who qualified just 28th but managed to work his way up to sixth by the end of Sunday's race. He was the highest-finishing driver to start outside of the Top 20 as well as the highest-finishing Joe Gibbs Racing car. Gibbs used his long-run speed to grab his fourth Top-10 finish of the season. Up next, the Cup Series heads to Martinsville, where Gibbs has struggled since moving to the series, posting zero Top 10s in seven races, though he did qualify second in the most recent race at the track.
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Past Fantasy Outlooks
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Gibbs took a little bit to get rolling, but once he got some momentum on his side, he would easily march to Rookie of the Year honors in 2023. The Joe Gibbs Racing youngster would heat up in the second half of last season and earn 10 Top-10 finishes and wind up a respectable 18th-place in the points at the end of last year. Gibbs will now look to continue climbing the ladder and follow the example his teammate, Christopher Bell, has set with driver development at JGR. We believe that's a very good comparison and likely a good predictor of potential performance. Bell posted similar rookie numbers to Gibbs and in year two would earn one win and 16 Top-10 finishes en route to a strong 12th-place showing in the driver standings. Gibbs is quite capable of meeting, if not exceeding those goals. He and crew chief, Chris Gayle, developed some clear chemistry by the end of last season, so we'll see what they can accomplish in 2024.
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Records Another Top 5
Gibbs picked up his third consecutive Top 5 with a fifth-place finish in Sunday's Pennzoil 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
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Top-5 Phoenix Finish
Gibbs finished fourth in the Straight Talk Wireless 500 NASCAR Cup Series race at Phoenix Raceway on Sunday afternoon.
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Austin Top-5 Finish
Gibbs finished fourth in the DuraMAX Grand Prix NASCAR Cup Series race at Circuit of the Americas on Sunday afternoon.
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Tops Cup Series Practice at Phoenix
Gibbs was fastest in Happy Hour practice for the NASCAR Cup Series Championship race at Phoenix Raceway on Friday afternoon. He turned a fast lap of 131.868 mph.
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Third in YellaWood 500
Gibbs finished third in the YellaWood 500 NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday afternoon.
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