NASCAR’s Ty Gibbs Remains Focused Amid Team’s Lawsuit Drama

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Ty Gibbs at Phoenix Raceway.

Ty Gibbs isn’t letting the noise round his NASCAR Cup Series crew get to him. As Joe Gibbs Racing and the crew’s former competitors director Chris Gabehart are amid a authorized battle, Gibbs is staying quiet on the matter.

One of the most recent developments was Gabehart submitting a declaration, the place he spoke Gibbs’ dedication to the game. He expressed “serious concerns” with how the motive force and crew had been being dealt with.

Gibbs selected not to discuss Gabehart’s feedback on Saturday. Instead, the motive force of the No. 54 is dialed in on acting at a excessive stage for his grandfather’s crew.

Ty Gibbs on Gabehart’s feedback: ‘I won’t communicate something on it’

In the declaration tied to the JGR, Gabehart stated Gibbs wasn’t being held to the identical commonplace as fellow JGR drivers Chase Briscoe, Christopher Bell, and Denny Hamlin had been.

Instead, Gabehart stated that the No. 54 was straight managed by proprietor Joe Gibbs “and everyone in the organization knew it.”

Furthermore, Gabehart stated he was pressured into being a behind-the-scenes crew chief for Gibbs final 12 months, and wound up calling 9 races from the No. 54 pit field throughout the 2025 season.

On high of that, when it got here to competitors conferences, Gabehart gave an instance of how Gibbs received special treatment, in that he “was not held to the same meeting attendance standards as others on the team.”

Despite Gabehart’s feedback, Gibbs didn’t remark when requested in regards to the matter by FOX motorsports reporter Bob Pockrass. The former O’Reilly Auto Parts Series champion believes he works as onerous as anybody and is targeted on performing properly.

“I still work as hard as anybody else, no matter what anybody says and can say. … I won’t speak anything on it. I’ll let my performance on track handle it,” Gibbs said.

Gibbs is amid his fourth full-time season of NASCAR Cup Series racing. The 23-year-old has but to win a Cup race in 126 profession begins. After three seasons, Gibbs has posted a greatest end of fifteenth within the factors standings, again in 2024.

Joe Gibbs Racing suing Chris Gabehart over confidential info

Last month, Joe Gibbs Racing sued former competitors director Chris Gabehart. The authorized battle stemmed after Gabehart left JGR forward of the 2026 season to affix Spire Motorsports because the crew’s Chief Motorsports Officer.

The team alleged that Gabehart stole “proprietary information” and took photographs of his laptop computer display screen “in order to conceal that he was accessing and taking JGR’s confidential information and trade secrets.”

In flip, Gabehart stated in his declaration that the function as competitors director was not what it was offered to him as. Initially, Gabehart stated he was promised a “COO-type” function the place he would oversee all competitors points.

“Instead, I found myself constantly intertwined with Coach Gibbs, senior JGR executives and family members when making even routine competition decisions — a dysfunctional organizational structure that I could not continue in,” Gabehart said.

Joe Gibbs Racing at present fields 4 full-time vehicles within the NASCAR Cup Series. In addition, JGR has 4 entries within the O’Reilly Auto Parts Series and one full-time automobile within the ARCA Menards Series.

John Breeden John Breeden is a NASCAR contributor at Heavy Sports. He has 5 years of sports activities journalism expertise. He graduated from James Madison University in May of 2022 with a level in media arts and design. John can be a sports activities reporter for the Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Previously, John was a sports activities author for JMU’s The Breeze and a NASCAR content material author for Sportskeeda. More about John Breeden