Ty Gibbs angry with Shane van Gisbergen

Rookie Ty Gibbs entered Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Sequence race at Indianapolis perilously near the playoff cutline, simply three factors away from Michael McDowell for the sixteenth and ultimate postseason spot with three races remaining within the common season. After a Twelfth-place end dropped him to 18th within the standings and successfully ended any probabilities of making the playoffs on factors, the Joe Gibbs Racing driver was sad together with his day and directed that anger at Shane van Gisbergen. 

The connection between the rookie and New Zealander, competing in his second Cup race after surprising the NASCAR world and successful his debut on the streets of Chicago in July, acquired off to a rocky begin early within the race. How early? How concerning the first activate the primary lap.

After clearing the modified restart zone in flip 13, van Gisbergen, who began eighth, moved to the within on the entrance stretch and made it three-wide, heading into the right-handed first flip with Christopher Bell within the center and Gibbs on the surface. The Kiwi acquired free going over the curb, and his No. 91 automobile slipped out extensive, making contact with the No. 20, which then acquired into the facet of the No. 54. 

All three automobiles cleared the flip with out additional incident. 

Nonetheless, simply 5 laps later, following what turned out to be the race’s one and solely restart, it occurred once more in the identical flip, besides this time, the three-time Supercars champion did not miss the nook. As a substitute, the Trackhouse automobile was one in all a number of victimized by Joey Logano. 

The 2-time and present Cup Sequence champion locked up his brakes and drove laborious into the rear of Penske teammate Ryan Blaney, which set off a sequence response, with the No. 12 driving into Martin Truex Jr., who then acquired into van Gisbergen, with the Venture 91 automobile ending it off by driving into the rear of Gibbs and sending him for a spin.