NASCAR CUP SERIES: COOK OUT SOUTHERN 500

September 6, 2026

Ty Gibbs

Pit Lane Interview

Q. Ty Gibbs comes up one spot short of a Southern 500 win. Still a great day when you consider what you need to do in the chase. What was missing, though, as you look at the last restart and the last run to be one spot better?

TY GIBBS: Well, I think it just goes back to where we started. They had a pretty squirrely metric that they went off of, and we started 28th, unfortunately. Ranked in the fourth seated. Hopefully we can fix that for next time.

I felt the Monster Energy Toyota Camry was great. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I'm glad Christopher won. Happy for him and the 20 team.

We just missed it a little bit. And kind of had some issues happen the whole day, but appreciate all the effort from everybody on my team that helped us have a great deal, so appreciate it.