LATE RACE INCIDENT COLLECTS MULTIPLE JOE GIBBS RACING TOYOYTA GR SUPRA’S AT PHOENIX
Taylor, Jones, and Crews bring home Top-20 Finishes after Running in Top-10
PHOENIX (March 7, 2026) – Joe Gibbs Racing drivers Taylor Gray (15th), Brandon Jones (16th) and Brent Crews (18th) recorded top-20 finishes in Saturday night’s NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series race at Phoenix Raceway.
Crews and Gray ran consistently inside the top 10 throughout the night, but an incident with 27 laps remaining caused damage to Crews, Gray, Jones and JGR teammate William Sawalich. The damage to all four cars was enough to take them out of contention for the win.
Toyota Racing Post-Race Recap
NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series (NOAPS)
Phoenix Raceway
Race 4 of 33 – 200 miles, 200 laps
TOYOTA FINISHING POSITIONS
1st, Justin Allgaier*
2nd, Jesse Love*
3rd, Carson Kvapil*
4th, Sheldon Creed*
5th, Sam Mayer*
15th, TAYLOR GRAY
16th, BRANDON JONES
18th, BRENT CREWS
23rd, HARRISON BURTON
25th,, DEAN THOMPSON
37th, WILLIAM SAWALICH
*non-Toyota driver
TOYOTA QUOTES
WILLIAM SAWALICH, No. 18 Soundgear GR Supra, Joe Gibbs Racing
Finishing Position: 37th
Were you just an innocent bystander in that accident?
“Wrong place, wrong time as usual. Our Soundgear GR Supra was alright tonight. We had to work on it to get it where it was. A lot of hard work to get it to where it was, honestly. It just is what it is and we’ll move onto Vegas.
How did you feel about the run before that?
“I thought it was good, I thought we fired off really well with my starts and restarts, which is a positive for the team. We were able to get positions early but we would just fall behind in the long run.”
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