Joe Gibbs Racing
 
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| owner |
Joe Gibbs J.D. Gibbs |
| Racing series |
Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Xfinity Series |
| Championships | 4 Sprint Cup |
| Start number (s) | # 11, # 18, # 19, # 20 (Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series) # 18, # 19, # 20 (Xfinity Series) |
| driver |
Denny Hamlin (# 11 - Monster Energy, # 20 - Xfinity) Kyle Busch (# 18 - Monster Energy) Martin Truex junior (# 19 - Monster Energy) Erik Jones (# 20 - Monster Energy) |
| Manufacturer | Toyota |
| Place of the workshop | Huntersville , North Carolina |
| Homepage | www.joegibbsracing.com |
Joe Gibbs Racing , also known by the abbreviation JGR , is a group of NASCAR teams that were founded by Joe Gibbs and who is also the owner. After his career in American football , he switched to motorsport in 1991. Joe Gibbs Racing is headquartered in Huntersville , North Carolina , not far from Charlotte . Since 2000, the individual teams have achieved a total of three championships in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series .
Joe Gibbs Racing competes in both the Sprint Cup and the Xfinity Series . The team's drivers are Denny Hamlin , Erik Jones , Martin Truex junior and Kyle Busch .
On September 5, 2007, Joe Gibbs Racing announced that they would be Toyota's flagship for the 2008 season, switching from Chevrolet to the Toyota Camry .
Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series
Car # 11
Originally, the car with starting number 11 was a test and development vehicle. In the 2003 season it was used for the first time in the Pepsi 400 under the starting number 80 and with Advair as a sponsor in the Winston Cup . Mike Bliss drove this race and finished it in 26th place. The next use of the car was only at the Tropicana 400 of the 2004 season with ConAgra and SlimJim as sponsors, where Bliss took 31st place. After finishing fourth in the Chevy Rock and Roll 400 , the autumn race at Richmond International Raceway , the number was changed from 80 to 11 and Ricky Craven drove the car to a 30th place on the Talladega Superspeedway . JJ Yeley then completed two races with starting number 11.
The 2005 season saw the car run a full season for the first time. FedEx became the new sponsor . Jason Leffler drove the first 19 races, but was then fired because of poor results. Yeley, Terry Labonte and Denny Hamlin drove the rest of the season . The latter had the most of the three drivers with seven starts and finished three of the races in the top 10. Hamlin then became the new driver of the car for the 2006 season. He achieved three pole positions and three wins, which earned him third place in the championship at the end of the season.
Car # 18
The number 18 Interstate Batteries Chevrolet has been part of the team since Joe Gibbs Racing was founded. He made his debut in the 1992 Daytona 500 with Dale Jarrett at the wheel, who finished 36th after an accident. At the end of the season he was in 19th place. The 1993 season was much better and after Jarrett had won the Daytona 500 at the start of the season, he was fourth in the championship.
After Jarrett deteriorated to 16th place in the 1994 season, Bobby Labonte took over the car and drove it until the end of the 2005 season. Labonte won 21 with the number 18 and the Winston Cup in 2000. After the championship, the worsened Results and in the last two years Labonte could not achieve any more victory. The resignation of Crew Chief Michael McSwain in the middle of the 2004 season, when Labonte and his new Crew Chief Brandon Thomas gambled away the chances of participating in the Chase for the Nextel Cup , had a decisive influence on this development . Steve Addington became the new crew chief from the 2005 season. But problems with the car, among other things, then haunted the team, and so Joe Gibbs Racing and Labonte separated after eleven years.
On November 12, 2005 JJ Yeley presented as the successor for the 2006 and 2007 seasons, who finished 29th in the championship in his first full season. On August 14, 2007, Joe Gibbs Racing announced that Kyle Busch would drive the number 18 car from the 2008 season until the end of 2010.
In 2015, Kyle Busch suffered a serious injury at the Xfinity race in Daytona. As a result, he had to cancel the first 11 races of the 2015 Sprint Cup Series. He made his comeback in the All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway . By relaxing the Chase rules for him (he had to make it into the TOP 30 without having to compete in all races) he was able to get into the Chase for the Sprint Cup with a total of 4 victories in the remaining 15 races . With his 5th victory in the 2015 NASCAR season at the Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway , he was crowned Sprint Cup Champion for the first time in his career. This was also the first title for Toyota in the top tier of NASCAR.
Car # 19
This vehicle has been used by JGR since the 2015 season and is driven by Carl Edwards . In his first season for JGR, he reached the chase with victories at the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway and the Bojangles' Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway . There he fought for the title Sprint Cup Champion 2015 up to the Eliminator Round (TOP 8). Since the 2017 season, this vehicle has been occupied by Daniel Suárez .
Car # 20
The car with starting number 20 and Home Depot was first used in the 1999 Daytona 500 by Tony Stewart , who qualified him straight away to second place on the grid. During the season he won three races and the title of Rookie of the Year . Stewart has won over 30 races since his debut in this car, as well as the championship in 2002 and 2005. For the 2009 season, he left his longstanding team to compete in his own racing team, Stewart-Haas Racing.
From 2013 to 2017 Matt Kenseth drove the car with starting number 20 for Joe Gibbs Racing. Erik Jones, who switched from Furniture Row Racing , has been his successor since the 2018 season.
Tony Stewart chose the start number 20 for the car as a special kind of honor for the former owner of a Sprint Car Team, Glen Neibel, who sent his cars with the same start number into the race with only six instead of the usual eight cylinders in order to make the cars lighter .
Car # 80
Occasionally Joe Gibbs Racing uses a fourth car with the starting number 80. Aric Almirola made his debut in the Nextel Cup at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in the 2007 season . He was also supposed to drive the Nextel All-Star Challenge and the Coca-Cola 600 , but was unable to compete in the races due to a training accident. Almirola split from the team so that new plans for using the car are being evaluated.
Xfinity Series
Car # 18
The car with starting number 18 came to Joe Gibbs Racing when he took over the Shell Oil - Pontiac with starting number 44 from Bobby Labonte, who previously led the team. The car made its debut for Joe Gibbs Racing in the 1998 Camping World 300NAPA Auto Parts 300 with Tony Stewart at the wheel. He qualified in ninth place and finished the race in 31st place after an accident. In the following race at Rockingham Speedway , Stewart started from pole position, led 60 laps and finished second. He completed a total of 22 races this season, achieved five top five results and two pole positions. Alongside Stewart, Labonte drove five races this season and won the Diamond Hill Plywood 200 . For the 1999 season the starting number changed from 44 to 11 and MBNA became the new main sponsor. Labonte only drove one race before injuring his shoulder while qualifying at Darlington Raceway . Later in the season, Jason Leffler drove four races with the number 18 and achieved his best result at Memphis Motorsports Park with a 20th place.
Leffler drove the car for the entire 2000 season, clinching a pole position at Texas Motor Speedway and three top 10 results. At the end of the season he switched to Chip Ganassi Racing and was replaced by Jeff Purvis . Purvis got off to a good start to the season, finishing seventh in the championship, but was fired after the GNC Live Well 200 related to sponsorship matters. Mike McLaughlin took the wheel and finished seventh in the championship. Despite a winless season in 2002, he improved to fourth place. Since Joe Gibbs wanted to give his son Coy Gibbs a cockpit, McLaughlin had to leave the team. In his season as a rookie, Gibbs achieved two top 10 results and was second in the rookie standings behind David Stremme . Despite Vigoro and The Home Depot as new sponsors, the team decided to only start temporarily in the 2004 season. Labonte returned for two races and JJ Yeley for 17 races. The latter achieved four top 10 results. In the 2005 season, Yeley drove the car all season, scored twelve top 10 results and finished eleventh in the championship. In the 2006 season he improved to fifth in the championship with three pole positions, nine top 5 and 22 top 10 results.
In November 2006, Brad Coleman signed with Joe Gibbs Racing and drove 17 of the 35 races. He shares the cockpit with Tony Stewart, Aric Almirola and Kevin Conway. Coleman achieved his first pole position in the Busch Series on the Talladega Superspeedway , from which he finished ninth. He also achieved top 10 results on the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve and Watkins Glen International .
In 2008 the car is driven by Kyle Busch and Denny Hamlin .
Car # 19
The car with the starting number made its debut at the Carquest Auto Parts 300 of the 2005 season at Lowe's Motor Speedway with Banquet Foods as sponsor and Bobby Labonte as driver. Labonte drove seven races and scored three top 10 results. After Labonte switched to Petty Enterprises , Aric Almirola took the wheel for seven races in the 2006 season. Tony Stewart drove the car in selected races alongside Almirola, but used his crew from the Nextel Cup.
Car # 20
After Joe Gibbs Racing bought the team from Gary Bechtel in 2000, Porter-Cable became the new main sponsor. Although Jeff Purvis suspended three races as a driver, he achieved eleventh place in the championship with eleven top 10 results and one pole position. At the beginning of the 2001 season the car changed its starting number from 4 to 20 and Mike McLaughlin became the new driver. Even without a main sponsor, McLaughlin won the NASCAR Subway 300 and finished sixth in the championship. In the 2002 season, Coy Gibbs drove five races with ConAgra Foods as sponsor in the number 20 car. His best result was a 14th place on Kentucky Speedway .
After Gibbs switched to the car with the starting number 18, he was replaced in the 2003 season by Mike Bliss and Rockwell Automation as sponsors. Bliss got 14 top 10 results and finished tenth in the championship. In the 2004 season he won at Lowe's Motor Speedway and achieved three pole positions. Denny Hamlin took over the car in 2005 , achieved eleven top 10 results and finished fifth in the championship at the end of the season. Hamlin also drove the full 2006 season, winning two races and finishing fourth in the championship. In the 2007 season, Hamlin and Almirola share the car.
Awards
Sprint Cup championships
- 2002, 2005 - Tony Stewart
- 2000 - Bobby Labonte
- 2015 - Kyle Busch
Rookie of the Year
- 2006 - Denny Hamlin
- 1999 - Tony Stewart
Grand National Division, Busch East Series
- 2007 - Joey Logano
NHRA
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gibbs Racing signs Kyle Busch to drive in '08 ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
- ↑ Logano officially named to replace Stewart in No. 20 - Home Depot will remain as primary sponsor of JGR car ( Memento from December 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Information on jayski.com ( Memento from February 7, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
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