By Lonnie Hugh Skinner
Ty Gibbs of JGR wins NASCAR’s $1 Million In-Season Challenge Press Conference 7 27 2025
Ty Gibbs is the winner of the first NASCAR In-Season Tournament Challenge.
Gibbs beat Ty Dillon with a 21st-place finish in the 2025 Brickyard 400 Race on July 27 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway to win the in-season final.
Dillon suffered car damage on a restart in Stage 2 and fell a lap down, never being able to recover back to the lead lap. Dillon finished 28th, three laps down.
These are the drivers that Gibbs beat on the way to the $1-Million Dollars:
- Defeated 27-seed Justin Haley at Atlanta
- Beat 22-seed AJ Allmendinger at Chicago
- Bested 14-seed Zane Smith at Sonoma
- Got past 23-seed Tyler Reddick at Dover
- Beat 32-seed Ty Dillon at Indianapolis
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