{"id":71920,"date":"2024-07-11T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-11T01:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racer.com\/?p=361278"},"modified":"2024-07-11T01:00:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-11T01:00:12","slug":"ty-gibbs-taking-the-rough-with-the-smooth-in-a-season-trending-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/ty-gibbs-taking-the-rough-with-the-smooth-in-a-season-trending-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Ty Gibbs taking the rough with the smooth in a season trending up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Joe Gibbs Racing wheelman Ty Gibbs guided his No. 54 Monster Energy Camry XSE to a third-place finish in the NASCAR Cup Series race through the streets of downtown Chicago. The wild nature of the event still left him enthused days afterward.<\/p>\n

\u201cDude, it was crazy,\u201d said Gibbs from the Joe Gibbs Racing shop on Wednesday afternoon. \u201cChicago was really fun. I really liked that track. It was something else and I really loved it. My car was really fast. It was all clicking. It was all changing throughout the race. It was wet and then it was raining and got dried up. It was a lot. And the one groove was getting drier quicker. It was just all over the place and it was fun to keep up with the track and to experience the way that track changed. I really liked that and you don\u2019t really get that all that much in asphalt racing.”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span> The wild and woolly nature the Chicago street course just made it all the more fun for Gibbs. John Harrelson\/Motorsport Images<\/p>\n

Performing double duty in Chicago, Gibbs also \u00a0competed in Saturday\u2019s Xfinity Series race, where he placed third. The strong run has Gibbs brimming with excitement about the performance of both the Cup and Xfinity Series cars the Gibbs organization has been building for him.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve been great,\u201d said Gibbs. “They\u2019ve been working really hard on getting me set up correctly. It\u2019s really important to have that and the team has really been after it and getting me right with it all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gibbs emphasized that he delights in running in both the Cup and Xfinity events, as the seat time and collective experience has been significant in his growth trajectory as a racer.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really like it because it allows me to adapt really quickly and it\u2019s more time on the racetrack,\u201d explained the 21 year-old. \u201cIt was especially good in Chicago. I got to work my way up to it all. The track was so hard and difficult and so sketchy and treacherous. It\u2019s fun to race both cars and it helps a lot. I love it — it\u2019s so much fun and I learn so much. I mean, I like Cup. That\u2019s my main focus. Xfinity is fun to get back in the car and mess around.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Currently ninth in Cup regular season points, as well as 14th in the playoff standings, Gibbs has been highly competitive all year long.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m racing with some of the best drivers in the world, so I feel like I\u2019m just some 21-year-old kid that somehow got into the Cup Series. So to be able to race these guys is cool and to be able to compete for wins has been really fun,” he said. “I\u2019m very blessed, for sure. I try to keep it really humble. I just try to make the best of it and keep working hard.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gibbs has also worked on taking what race day gives him.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s taking what you get each weekend and then not hyper focusing on a bad weekend. I want to just chill-out and have a good time and be thankful for what we get to do,” he said. “I mean, we are so blessed. We get to what we love for a living. What a career to have. And the team has been great. For sure there are a lot of factors involved in what we do. There is a lot of stuff that goes into it to where we are able to go out there and win. We\u2019ve been really close and once we win, we won\u2019t have to worry about any of that stuff. That\u2019s the main thing. We\u2019ve been really strong. We\u2019ll keep working at it and see what it gives us. We just have to finish it off.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think experience is the most important thing with all of this,\u201d continued Gibbs. \u201cI think I\u2019d be selfish to name one thing that I\u2019m working on. It\u2019s the experience that\u2019s so important, especially in the Cup Series. Having time on the track and just experiencing the way it changes, it\u2019s just so important to have that. It\u2019s everything. Getting more experience, getting older and getting wiser with it is the biggest thing for me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Competing in an astonishingly competitive era of Cup racing where finding an edge over the other 35 cars on the grid is as tall an order as ever, Gibbs fully knows what he is up against.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou just have to do everything the best you can,\u201d he said. \u201cLike getting the best sleep, eating the right way, working out, staying in shape, your mental side. That\u2019s what it comes down to because it\u2019s so tight. For me, I feel like I\u2019m happy now. I want to keep working really hard and putting the hours in and the stuff will come to me eventually. That\u2019s what I\u2019ve gotten to learn and see in my career. I want to just keep having fun and to keep doing the right thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before beginning to pack up his bags for this weekend\u2019s Pocono Raceway Cup race, Gibbs spoke about his recent experience of climbing into a McLaren M19A Formula 1 car of the early 1970s. Gibbs — a massive fan of all forms of motorsport — was thrilled with the opportunity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat was sick,\u201d enthused Gibbs. \u201cIt was a pleasure to drive it. I don\u2019t think it had been driven in 40 years. It felt good. It felt way better than I thought it was going to feel. I mean, it felt pretty racy, honestly. The car is 40 years old and feels that good? That\u2019s pretty badass.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ty Gibbs is getting the chance to be behind the wheel of a vintage F1 car today! pic.twitter.com\/iV8t1VSgsL<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2014 Joe Gibbs Racing (@JoeGibbsRacing) July 3, 2024<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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