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The post-race loop data for the 2021 Super Start Batteries 188 at Daytona Road Course includes in-depth driver stats, average speeds, and key performance metrics from the NASCAR XFINITY Series race.

Super Start Batteries 188

Saturday, February 20th, 2021

Daytona Road Course, Daytona Beach, FL

  • 29 Chevrolet
  • 7 Toyota
  • 4 Ford

  • Sunday, February 21st, 2021
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Holly Cain
Ty Gibbs gets first win in Xfinity debut at the Daytona Road Course

Ty Gibbs turned in a historic NASCAR Xfinity Series debut Saturday night, the 18-year-old won in his first series start – holding off reigning champion Austin Cindric on the Daytona International Speedway Road Course.

Gibbs took the lead on a restart in double overtime and held off the field by a comfortable 1.726-seconds at the finish line, dropping to his knees to reflect after climbing out of his No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota – a car owned by his grandfather, NASCAR Hall of Famer Joe Gibbs.

With his win in the Super Start Batteries 188 at Daytona Presented by O'Reilly, Gibbs becomes only the sixth driver to win in his first series start – matching a feat achieved by NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt in 1982 and most recently, Kurt Busch, 15 years ago.

Gibbs becomes the youngest driver to win an NASCAR Xfinity Series road course event. At 18 years, four months, 16 days, he breaks the record held – ironically – by Cindric (20 years old).

By all measures, it was an emotional victory following an intense, exciting race on the 14-turn, 3.61-mile road course. Cindric led the most laps 29 of the 56 – but could not catch Gibbs in the end.

"I just cannot thank everybody right now, really this is like a dream come true for me, it's just awesome," said an emotional Gibbs, who turned his first ever laps in the car and made his first career pit stop Saturday evening.

"I really didn't think I had it there," he said of the intense racing at the end. "I fought back and we won."

Gibbs teammates Daniel Hemric and Brandon Jones finished third and fourth, followed by Jeb Burton and another of the JGR family, Harrison Burton. Miguel Paludo, Brandon Brown, Justin Haley, and Jeremy Clements rounded out the top 10.

A victory for Cindric would have been his second in as many races in 2021 and he turned in an inspired drive back to the front to contend for the win. He and A.J. Allmendinger – another road course racing star – collided while running first and second heading to the Stage 1 checkered flag. Allmendinger's car was badly damaged and he ran laps down the remainder of the race.

Cindric's No. 22 Team Penske Ford was damaged as well, but the team made repairs and Cindric went to work. He returned to the race after multiple pit stops in 33rd place, but still on the lead lap. His road racing skills and the team's strategy calls ultimately put him in position to contend for the win.

"Obviously I don't want to be racing to a stage that aggressively, I'd love to see a replay and hopefully we can avoid something like that because obviously A.J. and I were going to be fighting for a win later," Cindric said.

"I hated having that much damage to our PPG Ford Mustang that early. Just seemed like he was trying to block there, don't know if he knew I was there or not. Sucks it's over with and we salvaged a good finish. Congratulations to Ty."

Gibbs grandfather, who owns the team, climbed down from the pit box and stood behind it to watch the final moments of the race. Clearly Ty Gibbs win was an emotional achievement for the entire family.

During a late race pit stop, the teenager Ty was asking his team for peanut butter crackers. An hour later, he was hoisting the biggest trophy of his young career.

"I don't even know how to feel," Gibbs said. "This is really hard for me to explain. After my uncle [JGR President JD Gibbs] passed away, it's been hard for me. It's just a dream come true. I'm just rambling. I'm excited. Mixed emotions for sure. This is just awesome."

Of his tight-knit family, Gibbs again wiped tears.

"The family is everything to me, they do so much for me," Gibbs said. "I just can't thank them enough, this is just amazing; this is a dream come true. It's all the man above, I'm sorry I'm a wreck I didn't think this was going to happen at all. This is awesome, I can't thank everybody enough watching and last week I had a terrible interview. I want to apologize for everybody, I just can't thank everybody enough. This is just amazing."

Following the second race of the season, Team Penske's Austin Cindric holds the points lead by 24 markers over Joe Gibbs Racing's Harrison Burton in second.

  • Drivers Entered: 40 (2 drivers will not make the race)
  • Laps Scheduled: 52
  • Laps Actual: 56 - NASCAR OVERTIME!
  • Margin of Victory: 01.726 Seconds
  • Time of Race: 2 Hours 35 Minutes 5 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 78.213
  • Cautions: 7 for 14 laps
  • Lead Changes: 11
  • Green Flag Passes: 1,408 (33.5 passes per green flag lap)

  • DAYTONA Road Course
  • Super Start Batteries 188 At DAYTONA Presented by O'Reilly
  • Race Winner: Ty Gibbs
  • Age: 19
  • Team : No. 54 - Monster Energy Toyota
  • Owner: Joe Gibbs Racing
  • Crew Chief: Chris Gayle
  • Ty Gibbs won the Super Start Batteries 188 At DAYTONA Presented by O?Reilly, his first victory in his NASCAR Xfinity Series career debut.
  • Ty Gibbs becomes the sixth driver to win in his NASCAR Xfinity Series debut, joining Dale Earnhardt (1982, Daytona), Joe Ruttman (1982, Dover), Ricky Rudd (1983, Dover), Terry Labonte (1985, Charlotte) and Kurt Busch (2006, Texas).
  • Austin Cindric (second) posted his second top-10 finish in two races at the DAYTONA Road Course. It is his second top-10 finish in 2021.
  • Daniel Hemric (third) posted his first top-10 finish in two races at DAYTONA Road Course.
  • Ty Gibbs (1st) was the highest finishing rookie.
  • Ty Gibbs becomes the youngest driver in the NASCAR Xfinity Series to win a road course event at 19 years, 4 months, 16 days. Record was previously held by Austin Cindric (20 years old) at the 2019 Mid-Ohio race.
Cole Custer celebrates in victory lane
Avondale, Arizona - November 4, 2023 : Cole Custer, driver of the #00 Haas Automation Ford, celebrates in victory lane after winning the NASCAR Xfinity Series Championship at Phoenix Raceway.
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Super Start Batteries 188 at Daytona Road Course : Loop Data Box Score results
DRIVER ST MID CLO FIN HI LOW ARP PL DIF GFP GFxP PD QPS % QPS FST % T15 LED % LED LAPS DR TOT PTS
Ty Gibbs 15 1 2 1 1 19 4.6 14 40 10 30 27 67.50 13 98.2 14 25.0 56 141.50 50
Austin Cindric 2 7 1 2 1 34 4.5 0 48 7 41 25 52.08 10 94.6 29 51.8 56 131.50 50
Daniel Hemric 5 3 6 3 1 29 9.3 2 47 17 30 15 31.91 1 78.6 2 3.6 56 108.40 42
Brandon Jones 39 6 12 4 1 39 13.7 35 66 18 48 12 18.18 0 57.1 0 0.0 56 92.20 37
Jeb Burton 3 13 11 5 1 31 14.1 -2 38 25 13 12 31.58 0 69.6 2 3.6 56 86.50 32
Harrison Burton 4 2 3 6 1 29 5.4 -2 21 12 9 19 90.48 4 94.6 3 5.4 56 117.40 44
Miguel Paludo 35 33 10 7 5 35 18.1 28 70 43 27 13 18.57 0 41.1 0 0.0 56 89.70 30
Brandon Brown 7 16 17 8 5 25 13.4 -1 23 25 -2 13 56.52 0 58.9 0 0.0 56 78.20 34
Justin Haley 29 4 4 9 3 30 9.3 20 31 19 12 10 32.26 1 76.8 0 0.0 56 103.10 35
Jeremy Clements 18 11 9 10 3 30 10.2 8 45 20 25 30 66.67 0 92.9 0 0.0 56 90.50 35
Brett Moffitt 1 23 15 11 1 32 12.5 -10 46 79 -33 14 30.43 1 60.7 0 0.0 56 90.80 0
Landon Cassill 14 22 20 12 12 33 22.8 2 41 41 0 7 17.07 0 7.1 0 0.0 56 63.80 25
Myatt Snider 8 8 5 13 2 31 7.5 -5 41 14 27 26 63.41 1 92.9 0 0.0 56 94.30 36
Jesse Little 13 25 23 14 11 35 25.6 -1 42 51 -9 1 2.38 0 3.6 0 0.0 56 56.50 23
Michael Annett 33 20 26 15 9 34 21.9 18 35 51 -16 4 11.43 0 17.9 0 0.0 56 59.30 22
Kyle Weatherman 11 21 22 16 7 32 19.2 -5 36 49 -13 9 25.00 0 28.6 0 0.0 56 62.80 24
Josh Williams 22 18 19 17 7 31 18.8 5 50 38 12 11 22.00 0 21.4 0 0.0 56 67.30 20
Kris Wright 19 30 29 18 16 36 27.7 1 49 71 -22 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 56 45.50 0
Matt Mills 10 27 25 19 10 38 30.4 -9 37 19 18 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 56 43.80 18
Joe Graf Jr 9 26 28 20 9 35 26.5 -11 44 92 -48 1 2.27 0 3.6 0 0.0 56 48.00 17
Gray Gaulding 30 31 18 21 2 36 20.7 9 45 66 -21 2 4.44 0 21.4 1 1.8 56 62.00 16
Alex Labbe 36 14 14 22 10 36 17.2 14 72 33 39 15 20.83 0 50.0 0 0.0 56 68.80 15
Colby Howard 32 28 24 23 15 35 27.1 9 37 61 -24 0 0.00 0 1.8 0 0.0 56 43.20 14
Tommy Joe Martins 20 29 30 24 13 34 27.4 -4 34 70 -36 4 11.76 0 3.6 0 0.0 56 43.30 13
Cody Ware 38 17 21 25 10 38 22.1 13 53 59 -6 3 5.66 0 7.1 0 0.0 56 57.70 12
Justin Allgaier 25 5 7 26 2 28 8.6 -1 31 30 1 15 48.39 0 94.6 0 0.0 56 87.70 18
Ryan Sieg 27 12 8 27 1 30 13.6 0 38 63 -25 12 31.58 0 64.3 1 1.8 56 76.00 10
Noah Gragson 26 34 31 28 13 40 34.4 -2 20 21 -1 2 10.00 0 1.8 0 0.0 56 43.80 9
Stephen Leicht 34 19 16 29 7 37 23.8 5 36 33 3 1 2.78 0 8.9 0 0.0 56 52.80 8
Jeffrey Earnhardt 37 24 27 30 18 39 30.5 7 27 33 -6 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 56 40.70 7
Andy Lally 24 15 13 31 3 31 13.2 -7 36 43 -7 20 55.56 0 76.8 0 0.0 55 66.20 12
Bayley Currey 31 32 33 32 8 35 28.5 -1 28 28 0 2 7.14 0 7.1 0 0.0 55 38.00 7
Preston Pardus 23 10 32 33 9 37 18.8 -10 34 30 4 13 38.24 0 57.1 0 0.0 49 65.50 6
Timmy Hill 17 36 34 34 10 36 29.8 -17 13 35 -22 5 38.46 0 8.9 0 0.0 46 47.50 3
AJ Allmendinger 6 35 36 35 1 36 27.1 -29 6 2 4 4 66.67 3 25.0 4 9.3 43 88.30 2
Jade Buford 28 9 35 36 7 33 21.4 -8 25 37 -12 9 36.00 0 35.7 0 0.0 38 69.70 1
Ryan Vargas 12 39 37 37 10 39 34.7 -25 5 32 -27 2 40.00 0 10.7 0 0.0 33 43.50 1
David Starr 40 37 38 38 26 40 36.5 2 6 9 -3 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 20 26.80 1
Riley Herbst 16 38 39 39 4 16 29.6 -23 11 3 8 9 81.82 0 26.8 0 0.0 15 67.70 9
Natalie Decker 21 40 40 40 21 38 39.7 -19 1 19 -18 0 0.00 0 0.0 0 0.0 3 24.20 1