Tyler Randal Gibbs (born October 4, 2002) is an American professional stock car racing driver and team owner.
Gibbs began racing in go-karts, on asphalt and dirt tracks in Mooresville, North Carolina.
[1] In 2019, Gibbs won the IceBreaker 125 Late Model Stock race at Myrtle Beach Speedway, driving the No.
He finished 14th in the season points standings in 2017 (due to Gibbs only competing in 8 out of 13 races that year), and 8th in 2018.
[citation needed] Gibbs ran a partial schedule in the 2019 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East, collecting four second-place finishes in five starts in the DGR-Crosley No.
On September 21, Gibbs scored his first career win in his sixth start at the Apple Barrel 125 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in the No.
Gibbs led 104 laps at Dover in the General Tire 125 before crashing out late, marking his only DNF in the series and only finish outside the top four in any year.
[4] He made four starts in the 2021 season, three of which were companion events with the main ARCA Menards Series.
[4] Gibbs made his debut in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West in the 2019 season-finale at ISM Raceway, going on to win the race.
[4] Gibbs has won 18 ARCA Menards Series races and collected 38 top five finishes in a total of 47 starts.
[4] In 2019, Gibbs ran 11 of 20 races in the ARCA Menards Series, finishing 13th in the standing after picking up wins at Gateway and Salem.
The next year he competed in 16 of 20 races and finished fifth in the standings, collecting wins at Gateway, Pocono, Kentucky, Iowa, Winchester, and Memphis.
[4][5] Gibbs turned 18 on October 4, 2020, which made him eligible to race on all tracks on the ARCA schedule (including Daytona and Talladega).
[4] On January 26, 2021, JGR announced that Gibbs would make his Xfinity Series debut in 2021 at the Daytona Road Course, which would be the first race of a part-time schedule he would run in the team's No.
He shared the ride with Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Martin Truex Jr., John Hunter Nemechek, and Ty Dillon.
[6] On the Daytona Road Course, Gibbs held off Austin Cindric in overtime to win, becoming the sixth driver to win in their Xfinity debut (after Dale Earnhardt, Ricky Rudd, Joe Ruttman, Terry Labonte, and Kurt Busch) and the first to do so without prior experience in the NASCAR Cup Series.
After the race, Gibbs ran into Mayer's car during the cool-down lap before both drivers engaged in a fistfight on pit road.
[20] On July 24, 2022, 23XI Racing announced that Gibbs would make his NASCAR Cup Series debut at the 2022 M&M's Fan Appreciation 400 at Pocono the same day, driving the No.
[26] Gibbs filled in for Busch during the last two regular season races at Watkins Glen and Daytona, in which he finished 26th and 13th respectively.
[29] In 2023, Gibbs joined the NASCAR Cup Series on a full-time basis, driving the newly rebranded No.
[30] Despite missing the playoffs, Gibbs achieved four top-five finishes and earned the NASCAR Rookie of the Year title.
* Season still in progress 1 Ineligible for series points (key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time.