Joe Gibbs Racing vice chairman Coy Gibbs dies at age 49 – Motorsport US

At about 3 p. m. ET, JGR released the following statement:

“It is with great sorrow that Later on Gibbs Race confirms that Coy Gibbs (co-owner) went to be with the Lord in his sleep last night. The family appreciates all the thoughts and prayers and asks for privacy at this time. ”

Both Coy’s father, JGR owner May well Gibbs, and his son, Ty, returned to North Carolina prior to the start of Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series championship race.

Christopher Bell , one of JGR’s Cup drivers, is 1 of four competing for the series title within Sunday’s race.

On Saturday night time, Coy was at Phoenix Raceway as his 20-year-old son, Ity, driving for that family’s team, won his seventh competition of the particular year and captured their first NASCAR championship.

“I’ve been through this particular before in multiple sports. Ty hasn’t, ” Coy said after the race. “So, it was more watching him plus seeing how he’s going to react during the day. I think he’s just doubled down and did his job after making a huge mistake last week.

“It has been fun to watch that. ”

Coy, the son of NASCAR and NFL Hall of Famer Joe Gibbs, is a former NASCAR driver plus assistant coach with the NFL’s Washington Commanders.

Gibbs had been a linebacker at Stanford University from 1991 in order to 1994. Gibbs made his NASCAR debut in the particular Truck Series in 2000, sharing the driving duties of the No. 18 Chevrolet with his brother, J. D., who died in 2019 from complications following a long battle with the degenerative neurological disease , also at the age of 49.

In 2001, Coy began racing fulltime in the particular Truck Collection, posting two top-five finishes, and then finishing 10th within the collection standings the following year. In 2003, he replaced Mike McLaughlin in what is now the Xfinity Series, with 2 top-10 coatings.

In 2004, after Joe Gibbs was re-hired because Washington’s trainer, he joined the team since an Offensive Quality Control assistant, serving in that will capacity until 2007.

Coy Gibbs founded the JGRMX team in 2008 and in 2016 was named to their current role of vice chairman plus COO and overseeing the particular organization’s NASCAR programs.

Coy and his wife, Heather, have four children – Ty, Case, Jett plus Elle.