Ty Gibbs might only be 22 but has already amassed some pretty solid credentials. He is the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series Rookie of the Year, the 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series champion on the strength of seven wins and 23 top-10 finishes and the 2021 ARCA Menard’s Series Champion. He also won the 2021 Xfinity Series Rookie of the Year title.

 

His Cup career got started in July 2022, when he filled in for the injured Kurt Busch in the Monster Energy Toyota Camry TRD NASCAR Cup Series ride for 23XI Racing. Gibbs had a best finish of 10th at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn and competed in 15 races.

 

In 2023, he ran his first full season for Joe Gibbs Racing driving the No. 54 Monster Energy Toyota Camry and scored four top-five and 10 top-10 finishes. He also won the Xfinity race on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course.

 

In his second full season in 2024, he made the NASCAR Cup Playoffs and finished 15th in the final point standings. He scored career highs in top-fives (eight), top-10s (12), laps led (417) and scored two poles.

 

In Gibbs’ Xfinity Series debut in February 2021 at the Daytona International Speedway Road Course, he led 14 of the 56 laps en route to his first career Xfinity Series win. Gibbs became the youngest driver to win an Xfinity road course race at 18 years, 4 months, 16 days. The Charlotte, N.C., native also became the second-youngest winner in Xfinity Series history after Joey Logano who won in June 2008 at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta when he was 18 years and 21 days old.

 

Gibbs is the sixth driver to win in his Xfinity Series debut, joining Dale Earnhardt, Joe Ruttman, Ricky Rudd, Terry Labonte and Kurt Busch. He also scored wins in May at Charlotte Motor Speedway, in August at Watkins Glen International and in October at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City. All of those drivers had previous NASCAR Cup Series start before running in the Xfinity Series.

 

He won 12 ARCA races in 2021 at Phoenix International Raceway, Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Toledo (Ohio) Speedway, Charlotte Motor Speedway, Mid-Ohio, Iowa Speedway, Winchester (Ind.) Speedway, Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, The Milwaukee Mile and Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway. He also won and ARCA East race at Dover (Del.) International Speedway and an ARCA West race at Phoenix.

 

Gibbs emerged onto the national racing scene in 2020 with an impressive season in the ARCA

Menards Series that saw him win six times despite running only a partial schedule. The wins, along with 12 top-five and 14 top-ten finishes in just 16 starts helped lead Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) to its first ARCA Menards Series Owner’s Championship.

 

Gibbs, whose family has a legacy of success in professional sports, began racing BMX bicycles at age six.

 

By age nine he had attained the North Carolina State Championship, Regional Championship, Red Line Championship, District Championship and national number seven in ABA (American Bicycle Association) BMX competition. He went on to earn national number three in USA Cycling mountain bicycle racing and competed in several major bicycle road racing events, including finishing first in his division at the 2013 USA Cycling National Criterium held in High Point, North Carolina. No stranger to the fastest stock car drivers on the planet, Gibbs decided to try his hand at go-karts at age eleven and fell in love with four-wheel racing.

 

He began winning at his local kart track, GoPro Motorplex, and then expanded to national level racing with wins in the WKA (World Karting Association), and SKUSA (Super Karts U.S.A.) series.

 

During 2015, Ty started racing dirt karts in addition to (road) karts to further his skills. He won in the Box Stock division and carried his winning ways into the intermediate class at the region’s well-known dirt kart track, Millbridge Speedway in Salisbury, North Carolina.

 

In 2017 Ty made the transition to Late Model Stock Cars, winning races and earning Rookie of the Year honors at Hickory Motor Speedway and then in 2018 winning the Rusty Harpe Memorial at Caraway Speedway along with a pair of pole position qualifying runs.

 

For 2019, he won the Ice Breaker Late Model Stock Car Race in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and he concluded the year with a win in the ARCA West Race at Phoenix International Raceway.

 

When he is not driving, Gibbs enjoys water sports, cycling, and working out.