Ty Gibbs was competing within the 2026 Excessive Restrict Racing season-opener on the Las Vegas Motor Speedway filth observe on Thursday Evening, which is simply outdoors the 1.5-mile intermediate observe the place the NASCAR Cup Sequence might be racing this weekend.
Driving a 410 winged dash automobile, Gibbs was working fourth in his warmth when he made contact with Corey Day — a daily within the NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Components Sequence. Competing for Chad Boat Industries, he drove over the right-rear wheel of Day’s machine, and his personal #84 went up on its aspect earlier than rolling a number of instances on the exit of Flip 2. The automobile slammed the catch-fencing earlier than falling again to the bottom after a number of flips.
The 23-year-old rapidly pulled himself from the automobile and walked away from the accident scene.
“Yeah I am tremendous,” Gibbs advised Flo Racing. “I feel Corey simply acquired tremendous free there and I acquired pointed to the place it was connected and simply caught his right-rear slightly bit, and dug the frontend in. So yeah, we’re good — simply unlucky. We’ll come again up tomorrow and go get them.”
Gibbs really flipped on this identical occasion one yr in the past, making his Excessive Restrict debut on the time. He superior all the best way into the A-Fundamental earlier than the airborne crash. The previous O’Reilly Sequence champion has competed in varied dash automobile occasions since then, together with the World of Outlaws Sequence, and has additionally been a part of the Chili Bowl Midget Nationals.
Gibbs enters Vegas with some momentum after back-to-back high 5 finishes at COTA and Phoenix within the Cup Sequence. He at present sits fifteenth within the championship standings.
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