Joe Gibbs Racing Tag

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer CONCORD, N.C. – To most, the Coca-Cola 600 is just another race. 2017’s marks the third annual 600 Miles of Remembrance for the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series. Every driver’s windshield banner will display the name of a United State military veteran who sacrificed everything. Families are not only invited to the race as guests, but are also honored in a ceremony in which miniature windshields with the name of their loved ones are presented to them. On Kyle Busch’s M&M’s Red, White, and BlueRead More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer  For the 10th race of the 2017 NASCAR Xfinity Series season, teams will roll into Charlotte Motor Speedway for the Hisense 4K TV 300. One driver who is coming off his best finish of the season is Matt Tifft after a sixth place finish at Talladega in early May. Tifft has had several sponsors adorn his Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota Camry, and this week he will be piloting the No. 19 Brain Tumor Awareness Month Toyota Camry. This is the second time this season thatRead More

By: Reid Spencer, NASCAR Wire Service CONCORD, N.C. – Kyle Busch took control of Saturday night’s Monster Energy All-Star Race on the final restart with 10 laps left and motored away to a 1.274-second victory—his first in a Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series car at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Busch powered his No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota to the inside of Brad Keselowski’s No. 2 Team Penske Ford—the race leader on old tires—as the field roared toward Turn 1 on the final restart. Through the first two corners, he cleared bothRead More

By David Morgan, NASCAR Editor A week after lamenting that he was ready to get back to a “real racetrack”, Kyle Busch heads to Kansas Speedway this weekend and will be looking for a repeat of last year’s Go Bowling 400, where he was able to finally breakthrough for his first win on the 1.5 mile intermediate track. So far in 2017, Busch and Joe Gibbs Racing as a whole remain winless, but Kansas could be just what the doctor ordered for the No. 18 team. Though Busch struggled atRead More

By David Morgan, NASCAR Editor Growing up just 20 miles from Richmond International Raceway, Denny Hamlin has always run well at his hometown track, scoring three wins at the 0.75-mile oval over the years. Though Sunday’s Toyota Owners 400 did not result in a win for Hamlin and his No. 11 team, they were still able to come away with their best finish of the season after ending the day in third place. Through the first seven races of the season, Hamlin would either finish inside the top-10 or findRead More

By David Morgan, NASCAR Editor Joe Gibbs Racing has had their hands full this season as they still search for their first win as an organization, but Richmond International Raceway looked like it would be the place for one of their drivers to finally break through, given that the team had won the three previous races at the track heading into Sunday’s Toyota Owners 400. Leading the JGR charge through the weekend was the elder statesman for the team, Matt Kenseth, who blazed his way to the pole on FridayRead More

By David Morgan, NASCAR Editor After seven races have been completed in the 2017 Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, there are definitely some teams that have stepped up their performance from last season, while others have stumbled out of the gate thus far in the season. As the series takes their first off-weekend of the year before embarking on a marathon run into late August, we’ll take a look at performance of the top teams in NASCAR’s premier division up to this point and how they rank amongst their peersRead More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer The beginning of the 2017 NASCAR Xfinity Series season has not brought the results that Joe Gibbs Racing driver Matt Tifft had been expecting. After opening the season with an 11th at Daytona, Tifft has been hovering just outside of the top 10. In comparison, Tifft’s various Joe Gibbs Racing teammates have recorded one win, five top fives and six Top 10s between themselves. The newly repaved and reconfigured Texas Motor Speedway presented a new opportunity for Tifft and his No. 19 SiriusXM Toyota CamryRead More

By Seth Eggert, NASCAR Writer With the 2017 NASCAR rulebook limiting the number of NASCAR Xfinity Series races that Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series veterans with five or more years of experience can compete in, some teams, like Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR), must sign additional drivers. For JGR, 2016 NASCAR K&N Pro East Series runner-up Kyle Benjamin is one of those drivers that has earned an opportunity due to the rule change. Benjamin, 19, will make his NASCAR Xfinity Series debut in the No. 20 Toyota Camry later this monthRead More

By David Morgan, NASCAR Editor After winning his first Martinsville grandfather clock in this race one year ago, Kyle Busch looked primed to accomplish that feat for the second year in a row after leading the most laps in Sunday’s STP 500, but with handling issues plaguing him in the final stint of the race, he had to settle for a runner-up finish instead. Busch started the day in 10th place and took over the lead for the first time under caution on lap 109. Though it was just forRead More