Key Detail in Ty Gibbs Announcement Contradicts the Promise Current JGR President Made 3 Years Ago

Ty Gibbs being given the #54 car instead of the highly speculated and almost certain #18 of Kyle Busch has to be one of the most mind-bending decisions by Joe Gibbs Racing. Especially after considering what their president said a few years ago.

In 2019, Dave Alpern had described a future in which he envisioned Joe Gibbs Racing to be “synonymous with Nos. 18, 11, 19 and 20 for generations to come.”

But now, seeing as things stand now, even with an opportunity of moving Gibbs to the #18, they decided to not run that number for a full year, handing out the #54 to the Xfinity Series champion.

The reason for this, as journalist Bob Pockrass claimed to be, could be the very real possibility of not making Kyle Busch comparisons run rampant, which they still would but not as much they would’ve had Gibbs been given the #18.

Along with that, Pockrass also suggested that JGR didn’t want it to seem like Gibbs, who is the grandson of Joe Gibbs, is given the same fate as another grandchild in NASCAR got with a legendary car number, Austin Dillon in the iconic #3 at Richard Childress Racing.

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Unpopular amongst fans Ty Gibbs admitted to his mistakes post his Phoenix win

The 2022 season featured a variety of instances in different degrees in which Ty Gibbs not only tested the patience of NASCAR fans but also infuriated them, to the point where it crescendoed to some pretty loud boos towards the very end of the season.

But what happened in the very end was Gibbs actually won the championship.

So he took up that moment to acknowledge and apologize for his mistakes.

“Definitely have made some mistakes in the past and last weekend, but the best thing for me is to move on. And that’s what I did (at Phoenix) in my race, and we won,” Gibbs said after the race.

“I can’t go back and change the past; and if I could, I would. But we can’t do that, and the best thing for me is to learn from it.”

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