{"id":44625,"date":"2025-07-29T08:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T08:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/44625\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T08:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T08:10:08","slug":"ty-gibbs-makes-pledge-to-ty-dillon-after-winning-1m-nascar-in-season-tournament-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/44625\/","title":{"rendered":"Ty Gibbs makes pledge to Ty Dillon after winning $1M NASCAR In-Season Tournament prize"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ty Gibbs defeated Ty Dillon in the Ty vs. Ty matchup in the Final Round of the inaugural NASCAR<\/a> In-Season Challenge. Gibbs finished 21st in Sunday\u2019s Brickyard 400 \u2014 seven spots ahead of Dillon \u2014 to claim the $1 million prize.<\/p>\n

As Gibbs said after the race, $1 million is a lot of money. So much, that he\u2019s going to donate $10,000 to a charity of Dillon\u2019s choosing. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great,\u201d Gibbs said, via Nick DeGroot of Motorsport<\/a>. \u201cWant to first say, all glory to God. And, $1 million is a lot of money so I\u2019m going to donate $10,000 to whichever charity Ty Dillon wants to give to. It\u2019s his choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gibbs, though a six seed, was far from a popular pick to win the tournament. He picked a good time to have some impressive performances, compiling three top 10s in the five tournament races, including a runner-up finish in the Chicago Street Race.<\/p>\n

Ty Gibbs handles Ty Dillon in Final Round of NASCAR In-Season Tournament<\/p>\n

While Gibbs got the more favorable matchups on his way to the Final Round, Dillon had to go through a host of established names. The No. 32 seed (last) in the tournament, Dillon eliminated Denny Hamlin, Brad Keselowski, Alex Bowman and John Hunter Nemechek. This was his Cinderella moment, and he made sure to make the most of it with his trash talk and zingers along the way. <\/p>\n

But at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, his good fortune ran out. He sustained nose damage off a restart stack-up in Stage 2, eventually falling three laps down.<\/p>\n

\u201cDisappointing, obviously, but things like that happen and you can\u2019t predict everything,\u201d Dillon said. \u201cThat\u2019s what has been so cool about this In-Season Challenge for everybody. I just hate that we didn\u2019t get to give them a run for it there. Don\u2019t think they would say as a team that they had the best day either. I think if all things are equal and we don\u2019t knock the nose off on that restart, we are probably sitting in a pretty good position to put some pressure on him and race him out pretty solid. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe first half of the race, we were OK, and then we had a bad run there at the end of Stage 1. So, I think we were going to be able to get the car back right and challenge him, but it just didn\u2019t work out that way and it\u2019s disappointing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ty Gibbs defeated Ty Dillon in the Ty vs. Ty matchup in the Final Round of the inaugural…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[425,99],"class_list":["post-44625","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\/44625","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=44625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}