Coy Gibbs

Coy Gibbs
Born	December 9, 1972 (1972-12-09) (age 38) Huntersville, North Carolina
NASCAR Nationwide Series career
Best finish	14th - 2003 (Busch Series)
First race	2002 Aaron's 312 (Talladega)
Last race	2003 Ford 300 (Homestead)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 2 0
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career
58 races run over 3 years
Best finish	10th - 2001, 2002 (Craftsman Truck Series)
First race	2000 NAPA 250 (Martinsville)
Last race	2002 Ford 200 (Homestead)
Wins Top tens Poles 0 21 0

Coy Gibbs (born December 9, 1972) is a former NASCAR driver and assistant coach with the Washington Redskins. His father is NASCAR Championship owner and Hall of Fame former Head Coach Joe Gibbs of the Washington Redskins. Originally from Fayetteville, Arkansas, Gibbs currently lives in Cornelius, North Carolina with his wife Heather and their four children, sons Ty, Case and Jet plus daughter Elle.

Racing career

Gibbs made his NASCAR debut in the Craftsman Truck Series in 2000, sharing the driving duties of the #18 Chevrolet with his brother J.D. In 2001, he began racing a full time schedule, posting two top-five finishes, and then finishing 10th in points the following year. In 2003, he replaced Mike McLaughlin in the NASCAR Busch Series, nailing down two top-ten finishes and was named runner-up in the Rookie of the Year honors, despite running the full Busch Series schedule unlike award winner, David Stremme. He retired from racing at the conclusion of the season.

Football

Gibbs was a linebacker at Stanford University from 1991-1994. He led the team in tackles his senior season. In 2004, after his father was re-hired as the Redskins coach, he joined the team as an Offensive Quality Control assistant, serving in that capacity until 2007.^[1]

Ownership

In August 2007, Gibbs announced the formation of Joe Gibbs Racing Motocross (JGRMX). The raceshop for JGRMX will be less than 1 mile away from the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series teams located in Huntersville, NC. Coy will head up the operation along with help from motocross industry veteran David Evans.

They have riders Josh Grant and Justin Brayton signed to race for 2010. JGRMX will race both riders in the Monster Energy Supercross series, and also the AMA National Motocross Championship.

Past riders have included Josh Hansen, Josh Summey, Cody Cooper.

Kevin Harvick Incident

While he was a driver in the Craftsman Truck Series, Gibbs was wrecked by Kevin Harvick in a Truck Series race at Martinsville. Reportedly it was said on Harvick's radio that he was going to dump Coy Gibbs but it was not true. Nevertheless, Harvick got parked by NASCAR the next day as he did not race the Virginia 500 and Kenny Wallace drove the race instead.

Information

• Coy Gibbs appears in NASCAR Thunder 2003 and NASCAR Thunder 2004 (as an unlockable Busch Series driver) driving the #20 ConAgra Foods (2003) and #18 MBNA Chevrolet (2004).
• In the racing publication Racing Milestones, his name is incorrectly spelled as Cory Gibbs.

References

1. ^ Coy Gibbs to Return to Racing

External links

• Coy Gibbs Racing Statistics

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Name	Gibbs, Coy
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Date of birth	December 9, 1972
Place of birth	Huntersville, North Carolina
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