Coy Gibbs, co-owner of NASCAR's Joe Gibbs Racing, dies at 49

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Coy Gibbs, co-owner of Joe Gibbs Racing, son of crew patriarch Joe Gibbs and father of NASCAR driver Ty Gibbs, has died on the age of 49, the racing crew introduced.

“It's with nice sorrow that Joe Gibbs Racing confirms that Coy Gibbs (co-owner) went to be with the Lord in his sleep final night time. The household appreciates all of the ideas and prayers and asks for privateness right now,” the crew mentioned by way of Twitter Sunday afternoon.

Joe Gibbs misplaced his different son, J.D. Gibbs, in 2019. He died, additionally on the age of 49, after an extended battle with a degenerative neurological illness, in response to NASCAR.

The reason for Coy Gibb’s dying has not been introduced, however he died simply hours after his 20-year-old son, Ty Gibbs, gained the NASCAR Xfinity Sequence championship race.

Coy Gibbs spoke to the media about his son’s race Saturday, following a controversial week.

“Watching it at the moment, yeah, simply to see his willpower,” NASCAR quoted him as saying.

“I feel he’s obtained expertise and he’s decided. It positively made me proud. I feel it made my spouse — we have been each proud, simply because he simply hammered down and did his job. If he needs to do that for a residing, he’s going to discover ways to do this,” he added.

Coy Gibbs joined his father’s crew after ending a school soccer profession at Stanford College, in response to NASCAR. Coy and J.D. Gibbs each labored within the entrance workplace of Joe Gibbs Racing, and Coy Gibbs additionally raced for the crew, in response to NASCAR.

The information of Coy Gibbs’ dying left the NASCAR world surprised on the day of the ultimate race of the season. A second of silence was held his reminiscence earlier than the beginning of the race.

Ty Gibbs, who was slated to drive the No. 23 automotive in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Sequence Championship Phoenix Raceway in Avondale, Arizona, was changed by driver Daniel Hemric simply hours earlier than the race, along with his 23XI Racing crew citing “a household emergency” because the trigger.

Denny Hamlin, one in all Joe Gibbs Racing’s most profitable drivers tweeted, “Immediately we'll do what we don’t wish to do, however we we'll unite as a household and race for the title on our chest.”

NASCAR chairman and CEO Jim France mentioned in an announcement, “We're heartbroken by the tragic lack of Coy Gibbs. On behalf of the France Household and all of NASCAR, I prolong my deepest condolences to Joe, Pat, Heather, the Gibbs household and everybody at Joe Gibbs Racing on the lack of Coy, a real pal and racer.”

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