Joe Gibbs’ message for grandson Ty after the bitter end to the dominant Bristol race

While all eyes were on the pilots in playoffs during the elimination race on Saturday, Ty Gibbs Stole the show because he had the most dominant performance in his entire career in the Nascar Cup series.

Make his 116th start in the career and always looking for his first victory, Gibbs led 2015 rpm, but an uncompromising error refused him a shot during the victory. During a critical series of green flag stop stops with less than 70 laps to do, he locked himself up and exploded the entrance to Pit Road, forcing him to go around the track with a tire with a deflated right front.

He never returned, ending the tenth. It is also the third time that Ty has been putting three -digit laps in a Bristol Cup race without continuing to recover the checkered flag.

Its team owner and grandfather, Joe Gibbs, was still able to celebrate Christopher Bell came out victorious, but he also thought of his grandson and team n ° 54 after the race.

Be patient

Ty Gibbs and grandfather Joe Gibbs, Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota

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Throughout the night, the team guided Ty on the radio and encouraged him not to make himself enemies when he impatiently used the bumper to take the lead at more than one opportunity. The term “being intelligent” has been used countless times while the 22 -year -old has sailed in a wild race. Maintaining patience is also something that his grandfather has tried to tell him in recent weeks.

“Yes, this sport is really difficult,” said Joe Gibbs at the winner’s press conference. “I don’t stop saying (ty), honestly, I use the word” patience “and there are two races, we were talking about the race, and he said, coach, you want to use the word patience; I don’t want you to use it again. So, patience is through the window. We are trying to win here.

“I just think he knows that it was what he wanted to do all his life, and so he is after. I admire, as I said, our whole team of 54. To be honest, they are young, but the crew of the stands, everyone, they continue to fight, so it’s really great.”

This year, Joe Gibbs Racing I obtained three of their four cars in the playoffs and swept the English Channel impressively with each driver winning a victory in the last three races. And then there are Ty, who has 16 first top fives, 32 top tens, and led more than 800 laps during his young career in the Cup, but he remains without victory. Although their main objective is on the title, JGR continues to focus on setting up n ° 54 at the front of the field where it belongs.

Gabehart trying to point the # 54 in the right direction

“Yeah, I obviously think that Chris (Gabehart) is our director of competition, so he really tries to help the four cars. At one point, we had three in playoffs, and therefore our goal turned to the 54, trying to resume this car. So we put additional efforts, including the efforts of Chris. But now we have worked on the calls.

“It is somehow progress for us. We have added a lot to this team this year as we are there. So, it’s a big problem for us to have a few good weeks as we have had the last two weeks.”

Gabehart spent a lot of teams working directly with n ° 54, as Gibbs noted. “The reality was that he was in a really difficult place there, on the type of duration of the overall race,” Gabehart told Motorsport.com after the race. “He was dragged for a few laps and his right in front was starting to die and it is very clear that if he went down from the bottom, he would make him cheese and that he simply could not go down and lacked the road to the stands. So it was just a really chaotic couple who cost him a lot of time.

“It is regrettable because if it was green, I think that the 22 (Joey Logano) will win, and nobody will know it and I need to study the data, but that’s what is so fun in this racing style. It is very different and there are so many things that happen both that it is difficult to know exactly how everything will play.”

Ty Gibbs, Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota, William Byron, Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet

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And although there is a lot of time to be happy on Saturday evening with the raw speed that Gibbs presented and an almost perfect execution on Pit Road, the result was always a bitter disappointment.

“It was a very good race, TY,” said the team on the radio during the time touring. “I know that it did not go in our direction, but you did an excellent job there. Pit Crew did an excellent job. Much to rely. Proud of you.”

Speaking more to work to improve program n ° 54, “ coach ” Gibbs told the media assembled that “group 54 really fought its heart. It is so difficult, and this sport is really difficult, so when you start at a difficult start as we did – but I admire the fact that they continue to fight now. I think we are improving as we go.

“I think that this evening is an example. Last week, I thought that we had a real solid week in Saint-Louis. Anyway, real progress with the 54. I have always had work to do. But I admire this group. Sometimes, you admire people who fight the most when it is really, really hard and right now.”