While every NASCAR Sprint Cup team has to deal with continual pressure, at Joe Gibbs Racing, the intensity is even higher than normal this year. With three Cup championships between 2000-05, JGR has been one of the sport’s elite teams of the past decade. But 2011 was a relative nightmare season, with 16 engine failures, [...]
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NASCAR Parks Kyle Busch
Kyle Busch parked at Texas, out of Cup and Nationwide races By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service (November 5, 2011) In the most aggressive penalty of the so-called “Boys, have at it” era, NASCAR parked Kyle Busch for the Saturday’s Nationwide and Sunday’s Sprint Cup races at Texas Motor Speedway. Busch, Joe Gibbs [...]
AAA 500 Texas Motor Speedway Preview
Texas Motor Speedway is one of the fastest tracks in NASCAR. 1.5 miles long, 24 degrees of banking on this quad-oval. TMS gets all the speed out of a stock car it can. But you need to more that fast to get around this lay out. Tight coming off the turn. TMS has seen a [...]
You Could Win A Behind-the-Scenes VIP Experience In Las Vegas!!
Here is your golden opportunity to be a part of the NASCAR lifestyle – if but a short time. Nationwide Insurance is offering you, the NASCAR fan, the chance to win a behind-the-scenes look at a NASCAR race weekend, complete with a guided tour of ESPN facilities and unique access to the Joe Gibbs Racing [...]
Joe Gibbs Racing, TRD will partner to produce engines
Special to Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service (August 11, 2011) Joe Gibbs Racing and Toyota Racing Development will partner to produce engines that can be used by the Gibbs teams as well as other Toyota NASCAR teams, the organizations announced today. JGR currently produces its own engines while TRD, based in California , provides engines [...]
Michigan notebook
August 14th, 2010 
Stephen Rhodes 
Posted in NASCAR, Nationwide Series - News/Rumors, Your Track Pass Exclusive Notebook: Hamlin, Busch trade places in morning practice By Reid Spencer Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service (August 14, 2010) BROOKLYN, Mich.—Joe Gibbs Racing performed its own version of “Trading Places” Saturday morning at Michigan International Speedway, during practice for Sunday’s Carfax 400. Denny Hamlin, who won at Michigan in June, and teammate Kyle Busch had [...]
Team Hamlin Takes 2010 Pit Crew Challenge
Joe Gibbs Racing’s No. 11 team is so good, it’s even winning when Denny Hamlin’s girlfriend is driving the car. With Hamlin’s girlfriend, Charlotte Bobcats dancer Jordan Fish, steering the car and Hamlin cheering outside of it, the JGR pit crew won the Sprint Pit Crew Challenge on Wednesday at Time Warner Cable Arena. In [...]
Hamlin To Have Knee Surgery
Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) announces today Denny Hamlin, driver of the No. 11 FedEx Toyota in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, will undergo surgery on Monday, March 29 to repair the ACL in his left knee. The surgery will be performed by Dr. Patrick Connor with OrthoCarolina. Hamlin injured the knee in January prior to [...]
