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Ty Gibbs ‘sent it’ and grabs Atlanta Xfinity win

Ty Gibbs 'sent it' and grabs Atlanta Xfinity win

Heading into the second two-lap overtime, Gibbs lined up fourth on the restart behind leader Ryan Sieg in the outside lane with Austin Hill and Riley Herbst lined up together on the bottom lane.

Gibbs pushed Sieg out front of the field, then A.J. Allmendinger gave Gibbs a shove from behind that allowed him to dive to the inside of Sieg entering Turn 1 on the final lap and cleared for the lead.

Gibbs held off Hill by 0.178 seconds to win the race – his second consecutive and second of the 2022 season. The only lap Gibbs, 19, led in the race was the last one.

 

“If there’s a gap, you’ve got to take it,” Gibbs said. “There almost wasn’t a gap but there was, so I sent it. And we won it.

“We came back from 29th and trouble on pit road. The win is awesome, still a lot of things I have to fix and work on, but let’s go, heck yeah!

“I wouldn’t be here without my team. Thank you to A.J. for pushing me. What the heck? That was so cool. I learned a hard lesson – just…

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