{"id":609220,"date":"2026-04-17T01:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/609220\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T01:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T01:30:14","slug":"kevin-harvick-responds-to-ty-gibbs-potential-for-multi-win-nascar-season-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/609220\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Harvick responds to Ty Gibbs’ potential for multi-win NASCAR season in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ty Gibbs finally broke through this past Sunday at Bristol Motor Speedway, winning first career NASCAR<\/a> Cup Series race. Gibbs\u2019 parked his No. 54 Toyota in Victory Lane in career start No. 131 in Cup. <\/p>\n

It had been coming for Gibbs, who entered Bristol having compiled five consecutive finishes of sixth or better. Now that he\u2019s got that first win, Kevin Harvick wouldn\u2019t be surprised to see Gibbs win multiple races in 2026. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think so,\u201d Harvick said on the latest Happy Hour<\/a> podcast. \u201cYou just can\u2019t continuously run in the top-five like that and not win. I mean, you can, but the odds of you winning more races when you\u2019re putting yourself in the front of the field like that are \u2014 just like this week \u2014 it gives you the opportunity to pick the right strategy, it gives you an opportunity to make the move.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is just the beginning for Ty Gibbs<\/p>\n

Gibbs beat\u00a0Ryan Blaney\u00a0to the start-finish line in overtime by 0.055 seconds, making it the closest margin of victory at Bristol since April 1991. Gibbs moved up to fourth in the points standings with the win, one spot behind Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old looks every bit the part of a championship contender. At the very least, 2026 could be a big year for him in the wins department. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think for them the potential is a multi-win season, and I think that right now, he\u2019s arguably been one of the best two cars to start the season with Tyler Reddick as far as week in, week out everything they\u2019ve done from a consistency standpoint,\u201d Harvick said. \u201cThe sky\u2019s the limit, now it\u2019s all about managing the expectations and the expectation is to win.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut also, making yourself do the things that you did to get to this point, right? We talk so many times about winning your first race and not letting your guard down and continuously trying to push things forward, not being comfortable that you just got your first win and letting your guard down and not being able to put that high-level effort in that it takes to win these races every week.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ty Gibbs finally broke through this past Sunday at Bristol Motor Speedway, winning first career NASCAR Cup Series…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-609220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}