{"id":24955,"date":"2025-07-21T01:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/24955\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T01:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T01:00:12","slug":"ty-dillon-will-race-ty-gibbs-for-1-million-at-indy-in-nascar-in-season-challenge-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/24955\/","title":{"rendered":"Ty Dillon will race Ty Gibbs for $1 million at Indy in NASCAR In-Season Challenge final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ty Dillon, the lowest seed in the 32-driver field, will race for $1 million in next weekend\u2019s finals of the inaugural In-Season Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Dillon finished 20th Sunday at Dover, beating John Hunter Nemechek by one spot.<\/p>\n<p>Dillon will race Ty Gibbs for the $1 million prize next weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Gibbs finished fifth Sunday at Dover. He beat Tyler Reddick, who placed 12th.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"Link\" aria-label=\"Denny Hamlin triumphs in double overtime at Dover \" href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsports.com\/nascar\/news\/denny-hamlin-triumphs-in-double-overtime-at-dover\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"Image\" alt=\"NASCAR Cup Series AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 400\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1753059612_659_\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Denny Hamlin overcame a rain delay and two overtime restarts to win his fourth race of the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt feels good,\u201d Dillon said of reaching the finals. \u201cYou know, I have been the underdog for a long time now, just battling my way to try to get opportunity. Eventually you get comfortable in fighting from behind and people underestimating you. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s hard to say that we lucked into it this far in, and I am proud of the way we have run. We haven\u2019t been a dominating car, but we have been a pain to everyone around us. That is all we can do \u2014 put pressure on them and execute at the right time and that is what we have done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dillon reached the finals by eliminating No. 1 seed Denny Hamlin (Atlanta), No. 17 seed Brad Keselowski (Chicago Street Race), No. 8 seed Alex Bowman (Sonoma) and No. 12 seed Nemechek.<\/p>\n<p>Gibbs reached the finals by eliminating No. 27 seed Justin Haley (Atlanta), No. 22 seed AJ Allmendinger (Chicago Street Race), No. 14 seed Zane Smith (Sonoma) and No. 23 seed Reddick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ty Dillon, the lowest seed in the 32-driver field, will race for $1 million in next weekend\u2019s finals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24956,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[425,99],"class_list":["post-24955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}