HAMLIN JUST MISSES THREE STRAIGHT WINS, FINISHES SECOND
Ty Gibbs, Chase Briscoe follow Hamlin to the line to place three Camrys in the top-four
BRISTOL, Tenn. (April 13, 2025) – Denny Hamlin (second), Ty Gibbs (third) and Chase Briscoe (fourth) led Toyota in a green-flag dominated NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway. It was Gibbs’ best finish of the season, and Briscoe’s fourth-place run matched his Daytona 500 run to equal his best run since joining Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR). Christopher Bell finished eighth, giving JGR four of the top-eight finishers.
Heading into NASCAR Cup Series’ lone off-weekend, Hamlin has closed to just 30 points out of the championship points lead in second overall, with Bell in third, 41 back.
Toyota Post-Race Recap
NASCAR Cup Series (NCS)
Bristol Motor Speedway
Race 9 of 36 – 266.5 miles, 500 laps
TOYOTA FINISHING POSITIONS
1st, Kyle Larson*
2nd, DENNY HAMLIN
3rd, TY GIBBS
4th, CHASE BRISCOE
5th, Ryan Blaney*
8th, CHRISTOPHER BELL
18th, TYLER REDDICK
19th, BUBBA WALLACE
21st, JOHN HUNTER NEMECHEK
26th, ERIK JONES
28th, RILEY HERBST
*non-Toyota driver
TOYOTA QUOTES
DENNY HAMLIN, No. 11 Progressive Toyota Camry XSE, Joe Gibbs Racing
Finishing Position: 2nd
Came up just short of three straight, but how was your day?
“You have to give that team their due – just a dominate performance. It looked like a pretty flawless day for them. It looked pretty easy. It was all I had to try to keep up there. I’m glad we were able to give him a little bit of a run with our Progressive Toyota, but this weekend – we are all thinking about Jon Edwards’ family, Al Pearce, Shige Hattori. We’ve lost a lot of great people in our sport over the last week, so our thoughts are with them. Wish we could have got one more spot, but I just wanted to keep him honest there at the end. That was all I was trying to do, but he was a little too much to handle.”
How nice is it to go into the off week with all of this momentum?
“No doubt. It has been a great run here over the last month. We’ve been really good. Just have to continue this momentum. It all starts tomorrow when you figure out how you can get just a little bit better.”
TY GIBBS, No. 54 Monster Energy Toyota Camry XSE, Joe Gibbs Racing
Finishing Position: 3rd
How was your race?
“It was a good day. I was kind of managing the race and figuring out the way we needed to be. It was fun. I had a blast. We’ve definitely made an improvement. Thank you to Monster Energy, SAIA and Toyota. It was fun.”
CHASE BRISCOE, No. 19 Bass Pro Shops Toyota Camry XSE, Joe Gibbs Racing
Finishing Position: 4th
What was your perspective on that closing battle with your teammate?
“Yeah, I had been kind of catching him the last 30, 40 laps. I about got him in the end and then the 12 (Ryan Blaney) came out of nowhere – I didn’t even know there was anybody close to us. It was fun. The JGR (Joe Gibbs Racing) cars were really good today. I wish we could have got (Ty) Gibbs there at the end there, but all-in-all, great day for us, especially after last week. Last weekend was probably our worst race of the year, so to be able to come back and have a good run like that in our Bass Pro Shops Toyota was good. Just need a little bit more still.”
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