Ty Gibbs, driver of the No. 54 NASCAR Cup Series Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing, suffered a scary flip during a High Limit Racing sprint car event Thursday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
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Battling for third in his heat race, Gibbs got a run on the outside of NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series full-timer Corey Day, but the two made contact in the middle of the corner. The 23-year-old barrel rolled multiple times before striking the catchfence, finally coming to rest on its side. Gibbs climbed out of his Monster Energy car uninjured. It’s the second year in a row Gibbs has flipped at Las Vegas on the dirt side.
💥 @TyGibbs okay after getting upside down in a big way at @LVMotorSpeedway @HighLimitRacing #HighLimitRacing pic.twitter.com/KlrVolV0JI
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“I’m fine. I think Corey just got super loose in the slick there,” Gibbs told FloRacing. “We’re good. Just unfortunate. We’ll come back up [Friday] and go get ’em.”
Thursday night’s SugarBee Blackjack Bash at Las Vegas served as the season opener for High Limit Racing, a series owned by two-time Cup champion Kyle Larson and Brad Sweet. Larson won the main while Day finished second. Brent Crews, another O’Reilly Series regular, finished fourth.
High Limit Racing spends two more nights at Las Vegas, part of the lead-up to Sunday afternoon’s Cup Series race in Sin City (4 p.m. ET, FS1, HBO Max, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).