Coy Gibbs

Coy R Gibbs
Born	(1972-12-09) December 9, 1972 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 2
NASCAR Camping World Truck Series career
58 race(s) run over 3 year(s)
Best finish	10th - 2001, 2002 (Craftsman Truck Series)
First race	2000 NAPA 250 (Martinsville)
Last race	2002 Ford 200 (Homestead)
Wins Top tens Poles 21

Coy Randall 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.

Kevin Harvick Incident

In his entire racing career Gibbs had only one feud with a rival. In 2002 Coy Gibbs driving for his father in Joe Gibbs Racing, made contact with NASCAR popular RCR driver Kevin Harvick at a truck race in Martinsville. A few laps later on a restart Kevin Harvick made contact resulting in Gibbs spinning around ending his high hopes to win. NASCAR reviewed radio chats from Harvick and parked Kevin for the remainder of the weekend when they learned from the radio that Harvick intentionally crashed Gibbs in retaliation for the previous contact. He was further in trouble when he lied in an interview about not intentionally crashing Gibbs even though it was heard by NASCAR who determined he violated his probation he was put on a month prior for an altercation with Greg Biffle; and Kevin was nonetheless banned for the Cup race as punishment. To this day Kevin Harvick, despite being exposed as having done the crime, maintains that he should not have been penalized.

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.

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 James Stewart and Davi Milsaps signed to race for 2012. 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. Josh Grant Justin Brayton

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.

External links

• Coy Gibbs Racing Statistics