Joe Gibbs

Joe Jackson Gibbs (born November 25, 1940) is an American NASCAR team owner of Joe Gibbs Racing who competes in the NASCAR Cup Series, and NASCAR Xfinity Series. Gibbs is a former Pro Football Hall of Famer and head coach of he NFL Washington Redskins. He started the team in 1991, winning 4 championships, 2000, 2002, 2005 and 2015.

Character-Based Leadership
Gibbs was applying character-based leadership long before he started in NASCAR. After 17 years of serving as an assistant coach to several college and NFL teams, Gibbs was hired as head coach of the Washington Redskins in 1981 and his determination and perseverance was immediately on display when the team lost its first five games. The Redskins rebounded to finish that season 8-8 and the following season, he would lead the Redskins to their first Super Bowl Championship in franchise history. Over the decade that followed, he would lead the Redskins to three more Super Bowls, including victories in Super Bowl XXII following the 1987 season and Super Bowl XXVI after the 1991 season.

Over that time, he became one of the winningest coaches in NFL history, but he would retire from the NFL following the 1992 season to turn his attention to his family and the new race operations. Four years later he would receive the NFL’s highest honor with induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1996. He would return to coach the Redskins again in 2004 and led the team back to the playoffs twice over a four-year span.

Joe Gibbs Racing
JGR would make its debut in the 1992, but it was a year later that JGR would claim its first victory, when Dale Jarrett captured the 1993 Daytona 500, known as the Super Bowl of racing, in the No. 18 Interstate Batteries car.

The growth and success of JGR has been extraordinary since that first victory, winning four NASCAR Cup Series championships and expanding from a single car operation in those early days to introducing a fourth-team for the 2015 season. And 23 years after that first Daytona 500 victory, Denny Hamlin would deliver JGR’s second win of the famed event in a thrilling photo finish that opened the 2016 NASCAR season and then took the checkered flag in 2019 and 2020.

Gibbs started Joe Gibbs Racing with his oldest son J.D., who passed away in January of 2019 following a long battle with a degenerative neurological disease. J.D. impacted so many lives over the course of his 49 years here on earth and his legacy will continue through the J.D. Gibbs Legacy Fund’s support of the Young Life ministry, as well as through the sharing of his story which can be found at www.jdgibbslegacy.com. Gibbs’ youngest son, Coy, helps lead the NASCAR operations on a daily basis as Chief Operating Officer, in addition to guiding JGRMX, a professional motocross team he founded in 2007.

In addition to his work with Coy at the race team, Gibbs is working to further spread the message of “Game Plan For Life” and also remains committed to Youth For Tomorrow, a home he founded in Bristow, VA that is now licensed to house over 100 troubled boys and girls ages 11-18.

He and his wife Pat currently reside near JGR’s Huntersville, NC headquarters and enjoy spending time with all eight of their grandchildren.

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In addition to the team’s four premier series champions, many accomplished drivers have taken the wheel for Gibbs, including Dale Jarrett, Terry Labonte, Matt Kenseth, Denny Hamlin, Carl Edwards, Ricky Craven and Joey Logano.