Denny Hamlin’s overtime win at Richmond Raceway on Easter Sunday was Hamlin’s career win number 53; but it was also career win number 211 for car owner Joe Gibbs.
Joe Gibbs fields four cars in the NASCAR Cup Series, but in all the years, Joe Gibbs Racing has been a part of the Cup Series, there have been just eleven drivers to win races for JGR.
Eleven drivers for 211 wins; where does Hamlin rank among those drivers???
Now driving for Legacy Motor Club, Erik Jones earned two of his three wins while driving for JGR.
Two time Cup Series champion Joey Logano has helped car owner Roger Penske add to his impressive list of accomplishments. While driving for Joe Gibbs Racing, Logano won just two of his 32 races.
Like Joey Logano, Cup Series champion Dale Jarrett earned two of his 32 wins while driving at JGR.
During his racing career, Mr. Backflip Carl Edwards won a total of 28 races; five of those were while driving for JGR.
Current JGR driver Christopher Bel has won seven races in his Cup Series career; all seven of them for Joe Gibbs.
Just missing out on giving Joe Gibbs win number 211, Martin Truex Jr has 15 of his 34 career wins while driving for JGR.
Matt Kenseth earned 15 of his 39 wins while driving for JGR.
Another driver that earned all of his wins while driving for JGR is Bobby Labonte who has contributed 21 wins to Joe Gibbs total.
Tony Stewart has driven and won in many different types of racing cars, but Smoke has won just 49 races as a NASCAR Cup Series driver with 33 of them while driving for JGR.
Standing at number two on the list, Denny Hamlin is the third of four current JGR drivers to make it on the list. Hamlin has spent his career behind the wheel of the number eleven car and earned all 53 of his wins with JGR.
Still active, but no longer in the JGR stable, Rowdy himself tops the list of race winners for Joe Gibbs Racing with 56. Kyle Busch has won a total of 63 races in his Cup Series career. Across all three racing series, Busch has won over 225 races.