Ty Gibbs answered his 2022 NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series championship with the 2023 NASCAR Cup Series Rookie of the Year honors and this season, not only claimed his first NASCAR Cup Series win at Bristol Motor Speedway but has maintained his first real bid toward a chance at the series title.
Gibbs comes to Atlanta ranked fourth in the championship standings – a comfortable 43 points ahead of 2020 series champion Chase Elliott. It’s a career-high mark for the driver of the No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota at this point in the season.
With 14 races remaining in the season, the 23-year-old has already equaled his career best season-long mark for top-10s (12). And his seven top-five finishes is only one off his previous best full season mark. Perhaps most amazingly, he’s put together the best championship run of his four-year career in NASCAR’s big leagues with four DNFs. Only Trackhouse Racing rookie Connor Zilisch (seven) has more.
Greg was a writer for DriveTribe supporting Amazon's The Grand Tour and has been published in major publications across the country including the Los Angeles Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He was also a contributor to Chicken Soup for the NASCAR Soul, published in 2010, and the Christmas edition in 2016. He wrote as the NASCAR, Formula 1, Auto Reviews and National Veterans Affairs Examiner for Examiner.com and has appeared on Fox News. He holds a BS degree in communications, and a Masters degree in psychology. He is currently the weekend Motorsports Editor for Autoweek and a regular contributor to Forbes.