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Truex Hoping to Come Up Big with Gibbs
By Lee Montgomery Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service The 2011 NASCAR Nationwide Series season began with high hopes for Ryan Truex. He was to drive Pastrana-Waltrip Racing’s No. 99 Toyota and was the frontrunner for the series’ rookie of the year award. But Truex, 19, has since come to learn that NASCAR can be a cruel sport. For starters, Truex and the 99 team didn’t run that well early in the season. Then, Truex had surgery on his right … Read entire article »
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J.D. Gibbs – From Parts Room to President
As the 1992 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season began, Richard Childress, owner of Richard Childress Racing, had just come off the team’s fourth series title in 1991 with the late Dale Earnhardt. Jack Roush, owner of Roush Racing (now Roush Fenway Racing) was in the midst of building his powerhouse organization and the 1991 season saw Mark Martin win the season finale at Atlanta Motor Speedway and finish a solid sixth in points. Rick Hendrick, owner … Read entire article »
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Gibbs and Toyota Racing Development team up to produce engines
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service Joe Gibbs Racing and Toyota Racing Development will partner to produce engines that can be used by the Gibbs teams as well as other Toyota NASCAR teams, the organizations announced today. JGR currently produces its own engines while TRD, based in California, provides engines for Red Bull Racing, Michael Waltrip Racing and MWR affiliate JTG Daugherty Racing. JGR and MWR will have the same engines starting next year. Red Bull could have those … Read entire article »
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Ryan Truex gets Nationwide ride with Joe Gibbs Racing
Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service Ryan Truex will drive six Nationwide Series races for Joe Gibbs Racing this season, the team announced Tuesday. Truex will drive the No. 20 car Sept. 3 at Atlanta and then at Richmond, Chicago, Dover, Kansas and Phoenix. Sponsorship was not announced. Truex, 19, has 17 career Nationwide starts with one top-10 finish. He is the two-time defending champion of the K&N Pro Series East. Truex, the younger brother of Michael Waltrip Racing driver … Read entire article »
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Drew Herring making most of opportunity with Joe Gibbs Racing
By Lee Montgomery Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service Drew Herring decided to take some time off from pursuing his engineering degree from N.C. State University a couple of years ago to go racing. Herring knew he would always have a chance to go back to school, but he also knew “these racing deals don’t always come around,” he said. Especially not ones with powerhouse organizations like Joe Gibbs Racing. Yet, that’s what Herring has this season. After only four … Read entire article »
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10th Anniversary of Stewart Getting Joe Gibbs his First Road Course Win
Editor’s Note: This is one in a series of stories In honor of Interstate Batteries’ and Joe Gibbs Racing’s 20th anniversary together in NASCAR. By the 2001 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season, Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) had built an impressive trophy collection in just 10 years as an organization competing in America’s premier form of motorsports. Dale Jarrett drove the No. 18 Interstate Batteries car to victory lane in the 1993 Daytona 500, and when Bobby Labonte took over for Jarrett in 1995, he won the prestigious Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway. Five years later, Labonte would win the Brickyard 400 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Southern 500 at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway en route to winning the 2000 Sprint Cup championship, meaning that in less than a decade, … Read entire article »
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Gibbs Teams Penalized for Rules Violations at Michigan
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – NASCAR announced today that the No. 11, No. 18 and No. 20 teams that compete in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series have been penalized for rules violations discovered during opening day inspection June 17 at Michigan International Speedway. All three of the Joe Gibbs Racing cars were found to be in violation of Sections 12-1 (actions detrimental to stock car racing); 12-4-J (any determination by NASCAR officials that the race equipment used in an event does not conform to NASCAR rules detailed in Section 20 of the NASCAR rule book, or has not been approved by NASCAR prior to the event); and 20-5.5.4A (oil pan, failure to submit component) of the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series … Read entire article »
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NASCAR Notebook: How will NASCAR handle Gibbs’ oil pan infractions?
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service BROOKLYN, Mich.—Will Joe Gibbs Racing get its second straight points penalty, or will NASCAR issue a slap on the wrist for the unapproved oil pans found on all three Gibbs Sprint Cup cars during opening-day inspection Friday at Michigan International Speedway? On Monday, NASCAR docked Kyle Busch and Joe Gibbs each six driver and owner points, respectively, and fined crew chief Dave Rogers $25,000 when Busch’s third-place car measured too low in the left front during postrace inspection last Sunday at Pocono. On Friday, Cup series director John Darby told the Gibbs teams, which had not submitted the oil pans for approval before mounting them on their engines, to replace the offending oil pans with approved parts before Friday’s first practice. The teams complied, and the unapproved … Read entire article »
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Gibbs teams busted for unapproved parts
By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service BROOKLYN, Mich.—Four days after NASCAR penalized Kyle Busch’s race team for a height-stick infraction at Pocono Raceway, Joe Gibbs Racing was back in the doghouse again. During Friday’s opening-day inspection at Michigan International Speedway, NASCAR found unapproved oil pans on all three JGR Toyotas—the No. 11 of Denny Hamlin, the No. 18 of Busch and the No. 20 of Joey Logano. It wasn’t that the oil pans had been deemed illegal, rather that they had never been submitted for NASCAR’s approval. The oil pans on the Gibbs cars were heavier than those typically in use on Cup cars. Though it’s impossible to infer intent from such a violation, lowering the center of gravity on the current Cup car is generally considered desirable. NASCAR required JGR to replace … Read entire article »
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