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NASCAR Xfinity Series

Super Start Batteries 188

Daytona Road Course

February 20th, 2021

Race #2 of the 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Series Season

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Laps Scheduled: 52
- Extended to 56 laps
Miles Raced : 199.4
Time of Race : 02 Hours 35 minutes 05 seconds
Average Speed: 78.213 mph
Margin of Victory : 01.726 seconds
Cautions: 7
Caution Laps: 14
Lead Changes: 11
Cars in Race : 40
Finished On Lead Lap: 30 (75%)

Ty Gibbs celebrates with a burnout — Daytona Beach, Florida - February 20th, 2021: Ty Gibbs, driver of the #54 Monster Energy Toyota, celebrates with a burnout after winning the NASCAR Xfinity Super Start Batteries 188 At Daytona Presented by O'Reilly at Daytona International Speedway. Photo by James Gilbert | Getty Images

FIN	ST	Car #	Driver	Make	TOT PTS	F PTS	B PTS	PO PTS	Laps	Led	x Led	S1	S2	STUS
1	15	54	Ty Gibbs	Toyota	50	40	10	6	56	14	2	0	1	Running
2	2	22	Austin Cindric	Ford	50	35	15	1	56	29	3	1	6	Running
3	5	18	Daniel Hemric	Toyota	42	34	8	0	56	2	1	0	3	Running
4	39	19	Brandon Jones	Toyota	37	33	4	0	56	0	0	0	7	Running
5	3	10	Jeb Burton	Chevrolet	32	32	0	0	56	2	1	0	0	Running
6	4	20	Harrison Burton	Toyota	44	31	13	0	56	3	1	7	2	Running
7	35	8	Miguel Paludo	Chevrolet	30	30	0	0	56	0	0	0	0	Running
8	7	68	Brandon Brown	Chevrolet	34	29	5	0	56	0	0	6	0	Running
9	29	11	Justin Haley	Chevrolet	35	28	7	0	56	0	0	0	4	Running
10	18	51	Jeremy Clements	Chevrolet	35	27	8	0	56	0	0	4	10	Running
11	1	02	Brett Moffitt	Chevrolet	0	0	0	0	56	0	0	0	0	Running
12	14	4	Landon Cassill	Chevrolet	25	25	0	0	56	0	0	0	0	Running
13	8	2	Myatt Snider	Chevrolet	36	24	12	0	56	0	0	2	8	Running
14	13	78	Jesse Little	Chevrolet	23	23	0	0	56	0	0	0	0	Running
15	33	1	Michael Annett	Chevrolet	22	22	0	0	56	0	0	0	0	Running
16	11	47	Kyle Weatherman	Chevrolet	24	21	3	0	56	0	0	8	0	Running
17	22	92	Josh Williams	Chevrolet	20	20	0	0	56	0	0	0	0	Running
18	19	126	Kris Wright	Toyota	0	0	0	0	56	0	0	0	0	Running
19	10	5	Matt Mills	Chevrolet	18	18	0	0	56	0	0	0	0	Running
20	9	07	Joe Graf Jr	Chevrolet	17	17	0	0	56	0	0	0	0	Running
21	30	52	Gray Gaulding	Chevrolet	16	16	0	0	56	1	1	0	0	Running
22	36	36	Alex Labbe	Chevrolet	15	15	0	0	56	0	0	0	0	Running
23	32	15	Colby Howard	Chevrolet	14	14	0	0	56	0	0	0	0	Running
24	20	44	Tommy Joe Martins	Chevrolet	13	13	0	0	56	0	0	0	0	Running
25	38	17	Cody Ware	Chevrolet	12	12	0	0	56	0	0	0	0	Running
26	25	7	Justin Allgaier	Chevrolet	18	11	7	0	56	0	0	10	5	Running
27	27	39	Ryan Sieg	Ford	10	10	0	0	56	1	1	0	0	Running
28	26	9	Noah Gragson	Chevrolet	9	9	0	0	56	0	0	0	0	Running
29	34	61	Stephen Leicht	Toyota	8	8	0	0	56	0	0	0	0	Running
30	37	0	Jeffrey Earnhardt	Chevrolet	7	7	0	0	56	0	0	0	0	Running
31	24	99	Andy Lally	Chevrolet	12	6	6	0	55	0	0	5	0	Running
32	31	74	Bayley Currey	Chevrolet	7	5	2	0	55	0	0	9	0	Running
33	23	90	Preston Pardus	Chevrolet	6	4	2	0	49	0	0	0	9	Transmission
34	17	66	Timmy Hill	Ford	3	3	0	0	46	0	0	0	0	Running
35	6	16	AJ Allmendinger	Chevrolet	2	2	0	0	43	4	1	0	0	Running
36	28	48	Jade Buford	Chevrolet	1	1	0	0	38	0	0	0	0	Suspension
37	12	6	Ryan Vargas	Chevrolet	1	1	0	0	33	0	0	0	0	Running
38	40	13	David Starr	Toyota	1	1	0	0	20	0	0	0	0	Transmission
39	16	98	Riley Herbst	Ford	9	1	8	0	15	0	0	3	0	Accident
40	21	23	Natalie Decker	Chevrolet	1	1	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	Accident

Race Infractions

Super Start Batteries 188 at Daytona Road Course

Driver	Infraction	Penalty	Lap	Lap Assessed	Flag
Daniel Hemric	Pre-Race to the Rear Multiple Inspection Failures	Tail End	0	0	White
Noah Gragson	Pre-Race to the Rear Unapproved Adjustments	Tail End	0	0	White
Noah Gragson	Too many crewmember(s) in contact with pit service area	Tail End	1	6	Green
Matt Mills	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	4	6	Yellow
Matt Mills	Safety violation	Tail End	4	6	Yellow
Bayley Currey	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	5	6	Yellow
Tommy Joe Martins	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	12	13	Yellow
AJ Allmendinger	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	16	18	Yellow
Kyle Weatherman	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	17	18	Yellow
Alex Labbe	Too many crewmember(s) in contact with pit service area	Tail End	17	18	Yellow
Timmy Hill	Too many crewmember(s) in contact with pit service area	Tail End	20	34	Green
AJ Allmendinger	Unspecified Missed front stretch chicane went to garage and served penalty after re-entering race	Pass Thru	21	35	Green
Jeffrey Earnhardt	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	29	34	Green
Tommy Joe Martins	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	31	34	Yellow
AJ Allmendinger	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	38	40	Yellow
Jade Buford	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	38	0	Yellow
Bayley Currey	Too many crewmember(s) in contact with pit service area	Tail End	39	40	Yellow
Ryan Vargas	Crewmember(s) over the wall too soon	Pass Thru	45	48	Green
Bayley Currey	Pitting before pit road is open	Tail End	50	52	Yellow
Bayley Currey	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	50	52	Yellow
Preston Pardus	Pitting before pit road is open Garage	Tail End	50	0	Yellow
Justin Allgaier	Speeding on pit road	Tail End	51	52	Yellow
Jeremy Clements	Unspecified Equipment over the wall too soon	Tail End	51	52	Yellow
Kris Wright	Hand pushing car/truck more than 3 pit boxes	Tail End	51	52	Yellow

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Race Fast Facts

DAYTONA Road Course
Super Start Batteries 188 At DAYTONA Presented by O'Reilly
Race Winner: Ty Gibbs
Age: 19
Team : No. 54 - Monster Energy Toyota
Owner: Joe Gibbs Racing
Crew Chief: Chris Gayle
Ty Gibbs won the Super Start Batteries 188 At DAYTONA Presented by O?Reilly, his first victory in his NASCAR Xfinity Series career debut.
Ty Gibbs becomes the sixth driver to win in his NASCAR Xfinity Series debut, joining Dale Earnhardt (1982, Daytona), Joe Ruttman (1982, Dover), Ricky Rudd (1983, Dover), Terry Labonte (1985, Charlotte) and Kurt Busch (2006, Texas).
Austin Cindric (second) posted his second top-10 finish in two races at the DAYTONA Road Course. It is his second top-10 finish in 2021.
Daniel Hemric (third) posted his first top-10 finish in two races at DAYTONA Road Course.
Ty Gibbs (1st) was the highest finishing rookie.
Ty Gibbs becomes the youngest driver in the NASCAR Xfinity Series to win a road course event at 19 years, 4 months, 16 days. Record was previously held by Austin Cindric (20 years old) at the 2019 Mid-Ohio race.

Race Recap

Ty Gibbs gets first win in Xfinity debut at the Daytona Road Course

February 21st, 2021

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

Ty Gibbs turned in a historic NASCAR Xfinity Series debut Saturday night, the 18-year-old won in his first series start – holding off reigning champion Austin Cindric on the Daytona International Speedway Road Course.

Gibbs took the lead on a restart in double overtime and held off the field by a comfortable 1.726-seconds at the finish line, dropping to his knees to reflect after climbing out of his No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota – a car owned by his grandfather, NASCAR Hall of Famer Joe Gibbs.

With his win in the Super Start Batteries 188 at Daytona Presented by O'Reilly, Gibbs becomes only the sixth driver to win in his first series start – matching a feat achieved by NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt in 1982 and most recently, Kurt Busch, 15 years ago.

Gibbs becomes the youngest driver to win an NASCAR Xfinity Series road course event. At 18 years, four months, 16 days, he breaks the record held – ironically – by Cindric (20 years old).

By all measures, it was an emotional victory following an intense, exciting race on the 14-turn, 3.61-mile road course. Cindric led the most laps 29 of the 56 – but could not catch Gibbs in the end.

"I just cannot thank everybody right now, really this is like a dream come true for me, it's just awesome," said an emotional Gibbs, who turned his first ever laps in the car and made his first career pit stop Saturday evening.

"I really didn't think I had it there," he said of the intense racing at the end. "I fought back and we won."

Gibbs teammates Daniel Hemric and Brandon Jones finished third and fourth, followed by Jeb Burton and another of the JGR family, Harrison Burton. Miguel Paludo, Brandon Brown, Justin Haley, and Jeremy Clements rounded out the top 10.

A victory for Cindric would have been his second in as many races in 2021 and he turned in an inspired drive back to the front to contend for the win. He and A.J. Allmendinger – another road course racing star – collided while running first and second heading to the Stage 1 checkered flag. Allmendinger's car was badly damaged and he ran laps down the remainder of the race.

Cindric's No. 22 Team Penske Ford was damaged as well, but the team made repairs and Cindric went to work. He returned to the race after multiple pit stops in 33rd place, but still on the lead lap. His road racing skills and the team's strategy calls ultimately put him in position to contend for the win.

"Obviously I don't want to be racing to a stage that aggressively, I'd love to see a replay and hopefully we can avoid something like that because obviously A.J. and I were going to be fighting for a win later," Cindric said.

"I hated having that much damage to our PPG Ford Mustang that early. Just seemed like he was trying to block there, don't know if he knew I was there or not. Sucks it's over with and we salvaged a good finish. Congratulations to Ty."

Gibbs grandfather, who owns the team, climbed down from the pit box and stood behind it to watch the final moments of the race. Clearly Ty Gibbs win was an emotional achievement for the entire family.

During a late race pit stop, the teenager Ty was asking his team for peanut butter crackers. An hour later, he was hoisting the biggest trophy of his young career.

"I don't even know how to feel," Gibbs said. "This is really hard for me to explain. After my uncle [JGR President JD Gibbs] passed away, it's been hard for me. It's just a dream come true. I'm just rambling. I'm excited. Mixed emotions for sure. This is just awesome."

Of his tight-knit family, Gibbs again wiped tears.

"The family is everything to me, they do so much for me," Gibbs said. "I just can't thank them enough, this is just amazing; this is a dream come true. It's all the man above, I'm sorry I'm a wreck I didn't think this was going to happen at all. This is awesome, I can't thank everybody enough watching and last week I had a terrible interview. I want to apologize for everybody, I just can't thank everybody enough. This is just amazing."

Following the second race of the season, Team Penske's Austin Cindric holds the points lead by 24 markers over Joe Gibbs Racing's Harrison Burton in second.