Joe Gibbs Racing is an American professional stock car racing organization owned and operated by former Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs, which first started racing on the NASCAR circuit in 1991. His son, J. D. Gibbs, ran the team with him until his death in 2019. Headquartered in Huntersville, North Carolina, roughly 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Charlotte Motor Speedway, the team has amassed five Cup Series championships since the year 2000.
For the team's first sixteen seasons, Gibbs ran cars from General Motors. During that period, the team won their first three championships: two in Pontiac Grand Prixs and one in a Chevrolet Monte Carlo. Despite this, Joe Gibbs Racing announced during the 2007 season that they would be ending their arrangement with GM at the end of the year and begin running Toyotas the following season. This partnership would eventually bring Toyota their first Cup Series championship with Kyle Busch in 2015. [1] Along with five Cup Series championships, Gibbs has also won four Xfinity Series drivers' championships and one ARCA Racing Series crown. The team has amassed 213 NASCAR Cup Series victories, 209 Xfinity Series wins, and 30 ARCA Racing Series victories.
In the NASCAR Cup Series, the team currently fields four full-time entries with the Toyota Camry: the No. 11 for Denny Hamlin, the No. 19 for Martin Truex Jr., the No. 20 for Christopher Bell, and the No. 54 for Ty Gibbs. In the Xfinity Series, the team currently fields three full-time entries with the Toyota Supra: the No. 18 for Sammy Smith, the No. 19 for multiple drivers, the No. 20 for John Hunter Nemechek. The team has fielded Cup and Xfinity cars in the past for many NASCAR drivers, including Hall of Famers Dale Jarrett, Tony Stewart, Bobby Labonte, and Matt Kenseth, and others such as Kyle Busch, Carl Edwards, J.J. Yeley, Jason Leffler, Erik Jones, Daniel Suárez, Joey Logano, Daniel Hemric, Brian Vickers, Brian Scott, Elliott Sadler, Harrison Burton, Riley Herbst, Brandon Jones, John Hunter Nemechek, Ryan Truex, Coy Gibbs, Mike McLaughlin, and Mike Bliss.
In the NASCAR Cup Series, which has been sponsored by Winston, Nextel, Sprint, and Monster Energy during the existence of Joe Gibbs Racing, the team has won 213 races and five championships. [2] It has won at least one race each year since its inception except its first season in 1992. In 2019, Gibbs set a team record for wins in a single season, winning 19 of 36 races, besting Hendrick Motorsports' record of 18 from 2007. The team currently sits third to Hendrick Motorsports and Petty Enterprises in total Cup Series wins for a single organization.
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Eleven drivers have won at least one points race for Joe Gibbs Racing in the Cup Series. Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin account for the majority of race wins, having won 56 and 54 races, respectively. Both Daniel Suárez and Ty Gibbs won an exhibition race while driving for Gibbs but never won a points race. [2]
Driver | Wins (Points) | Wins (Exhibition) | First Win (Points) | Last Win (Points) |
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Kyle Busch | 56 | 6 | 2008 | 2022 |
Denny Hamlin | 54 | 8 | 2006 | 2024 |
Tony Stewart | 33 | 7 | 1999 | 2008 |
Bobby Labonte | 21 | 1 | 1995 | 2003 |
Matt Kenseth | 15 | 2 | 2013 | 2017 |
Martin Truex Jr. | 15 | 1 | 2019 | 2023 |
Christopher Bell | 8 | 1 | 2021 | 2024 |
Carl Edwards | 5 | 0 | 2015 | 2016 |
Dale Jarrett | 2 | 0 | 1993 | 1994 |
Joey Logano | 2 | 0 | 2009 | 2012 |
Erik Jones | 2 | 1 | 2018 | 2019 |
Daniel Suárez | 0 | 1 | N/A | N/A |
Ty Gibbs | 0 | 1 | N/A | N/A |
Gibbs has won on 27 of the 34 tracks on which it has competed in the Cup Series, the exceptions being North Wilkesboro Speedway, Nashville Superspeedway, World Wide Technology Raceway, Indianapolis Road Course, Circuit of the Americas, Road America, and the Chicago Street Course. [2]
Order | Track | Wins | First Win | Last Win |
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1 | Richmond Raceway | 19 | 1999 | 2024 |
2 | Pocono Raceway | 17 | 1999 | 2023 |
3 | Bristol Motor Speedway | 15 | 2001 | 2024 |
4 | Martinsville Speedway | 14 | 2000 | 2022 |
New Hampshire Motor Speedway | 14 | 2000 | 2024 | |
6 | Atlanta Motor Speedway | 11 | 1996 | 2013 |
Dover International Speedway | 11 | 1999 | 2024 | |
8 | Darlington Raceway | 10 | 2000 | 2021 |
9 | Texas Motor Speedway | 9 | 2006 | 2020 |
Homestead–Miami Speedway | 9 | 1999 | 2023 | |
Charlotte Motor Speedway | 9 | 1994 | 2024 | |
12 | Daytona International Speedway | 8 | 1993 | 2020 |
Michigan International Speedway | 8 | 1995 | 2015 | |
Kansas Speedway | 8 | 2006 | 2023 | |
Phoenix Raceway | 8 | 1999 | 2024 | |
16 | Watkins Glen International | 7 | 2002 | 2016 |
17 | Sonoma Raceway | 6 | 2001 | 2023 |
Chicagoland Speedway | 6 | 2004 | 2018 | |
19 | Talladega Superspeedway | 5 | 1998 | 2020 |
Indianapolis Motor Speedway | 5 | 2000 | 2016 | |
21 | Las Vegas Motor Speedway | 4 | 2009 | 2021 |
22 | Kentucky Speedway | 3 | 2011 | 2015 |
Auto Club Speedway | 3 | 2013 | 2019 | |
24 | Bristol Dirt Track | 2 | 2022 | 2023 |
25 | North Carolina Speedway | 1 | 2000 | 2000 |
Daytona Road Course | 1 | 2021 | 2021 | |
Charlotte Roval | 1 | 2022 | 2022 | |
Joe Gibbs Racing has won at least one race each year except its inaugural season in 1992. In 2019, Gibbs accounted for 19 wins, over half of the total number of points races (36). [2]
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Joe Gibbs first fielded entries in the then-Busch Series in the late 1990s, making one start in 1997 with Bobby Labonte in the No. 18 at Charlotte. He bought the No. 44 team from Labonte and ran the car full-time in 1998, predominantly with Labonte and Tony Stewart driving. Labonte scored the team's only win at Darlington in his first start in the car. The team ran part-time for 1999, before returning with two full-time teams beginning in 2000. In 2001, Mike McLaughlin earned the team's second win at Talladega in the No. 20. Three years later, Mike Bliss scored the team's third win at Charlotte. With the addition of Denny Hamlin in 2006 and Joey Logano and Kyle Busch in 2008, the organization began winning multiple races per year, scoring at least nine victories every season through 2021 and winning the drivers' championship in 2009 (Busch), 2016 (Daniel Suárez), and 2021 (Daniel Hemric). Ty Gibbs won the championship in 2022, with the organization winning eight races. [6]
Busch won 90 races for the team from 2008 to 2021, finishing his career in the series with 102 total race wins. Additionally, Logano, Hamlin, Christopher Bell, Erik Jones, Ty Gibbs, Tony Stewart, Brandon Jones, Harrison Burton, Matt Kenseth, Daniel Suárez, Sam Hornish Jr., and Ryan Preece all won multiple races for Gibbs during this period. John Hunter Nemechek joined the team full-time in the No. 20 in 2023, winning multiple races, and Sammy Smith and Ryan Truex picked up their first career wins in the Nos. 18 and 19, respectively. [6]
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In 2016, NASCAR announced that Dash 4 Cash races would feature two heat races that determine the starting grid for the main event. Gibbs drivers won four of the eight heats held over the course the four Dash 4 Cash races. [8]
No. | Date | Season | Car # | Driver | Race | Track |
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1 | April 16, 2016 | 2016 | 20 | Erik Jones | Fitzgerald Glider Kits 300 Heat Race #1 [9] | Bristol Motor Speedway |
2 | April 23, 2016 | 20 | Erik Jones | ToyotaCare 250 Heat Race #1 [10] | Richmond International Raceway | |
3 | July 23, 2016 | 18 | Kyle Busch | Lilly Diabetes 250 Heat Race #1 [11] | Indianapolis Motor Speedway | |
4 | July 23, 2016 | 20 | Erik Jones | Lilly Diabetes 250 Heat Race #2 [12] | Indianapolis Motor Speedway |
Twenty-two drivers have won at least one points race in a Gibbs car, with Kyle Busch accounting for 90 of the 204 series victories. Joey Logano, Denny Hamlin, Christopher Bell, Erik Jones, and Ty Gibbs account for anywhere from 9 to 18 wins apiece. [6] Hamlin and Busch each won an additional race for the team but were disqualified after failing post-race inspection in those races. [7]
Driver | Wins | First Win | Last Win |
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Kyle Busch | 90 | 2008 | 2021 |
Denny Hamlin | 18 | 2006 | 2023 |
Joey Logano | 18 | 2008 | 2012 |
Christopher Bell | 17 | 2017 | 2021 |
Ty Gibbs | 12 | 2021 | 2023 |
Erik Jones | 9 | 2015 | 2017 |
John Hunter Nemechek | 9 | 2021 | 2024 |
Tony Stewart | 5 | 2008 | 2008 |
Brandon Jones | 5 | 2019 | 2022 |
Harrison Burton | 4 | 2020 | 2020 |
Aric Almirola | 4 | 2007 | 2024 |
Matt Kenseth | 3 | 2013 | 2014 |
Daniel Suárez | 3 | 2016 | 2016 |
Sam Hornish Jr. | 2 | 2014 | 2016 |
Ryan Preece | 2 | 2017 | 2018 |
Ryan Truex | 2 | 2023 | 2024 |
Chandler Smith | 2 | 2024 | 2024 |
Bobby Labonte | 1 | 1998 | 1998 |
Mike McLaughlin | 1 | 2001 | 2001 |
Mike Bliss | 1 | 2004 | 2004 |
Elliott Sadler | 1 | 2014 | 2014 |
Daniel Hemric | 1 | 2021 | 2021 |
Sammy Smith | 1 | 2023 | 2023 |
Gibbs has won on 32 different tracks in the series, with the most wins coming at Texas Motor Speedway and Phoenix Raceway, with 17 wins each. Tracks on which the team has competed and not won include Rockingham Speedway, Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway, Hickory Speedway, Myrtle Beach Speedway, South Boston Speedway, Pikes Peak International Raceway, Nazareth Speedway, Memphis International Raceway, Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, Portland International Raceway, Sonoma Raceway, Chicago Street Course, and the Charlotte Roval. [6]
Joe Gibbs first field one-off entries for Jason Leffler in the then-ARCA Bondo/Mar-Hyde Series in 1999 and 2000. Leffler drove the No. 18 in both races and posted a best finish of fifth at Atlanta in 1999. In 2005, Gibbs returned to the series for three races, one each for J.J. Yeley, Denny Hamlin, and Aric Almirola. Yeley posted a best finish of third at Daytona. [13] The team returned to the series with Matt Tifft piloting the No. 18 at Daytona in 2017. Riley Herbst began driving duties at the second race of the season, winning a few races later at Pocono, and drove full time through 2018. For 2019, Herbst shared the ride with Ty Gibbs; Gibbs scored two poles and won two races in the car. Herbst and Gibbs again shared the car in 2020, winning seven of the twenty races, before Gibbs took over full time duties in 2021, winning ten races and the series championship. In 2022, the No. 18 was fielded by Kyle Busch Motorsports, with Gibbs fielding the No. 81 for Brandon Jones for five races. Jones won three races and had a worst finish of third. The No. 18 returned full time in 2023, with Connor Mosack and William Sawalich driving; Sawalich won at Berlin, Milwaukee, and Bristol, while Mosack prevailed at Kansas. [14]
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As of 11/2/24 – Includes NASCAR's Cup Series, Xfinity Series, Truck Series, and ARCA Series races [22] [23]
* – includes results by multiple teams, sometimes up to 4 teams per race
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