Kansas City, Kans. – The details of the meeting, Joe Gibbs Racing’s pilots keep themselves, but the message was clear this week.
Be friendly to each other on the track.
The car owner, Joe Gibbs, brought together his pilots a few days after Denny Hamlin’s contact destroyed Ty Gibbs in New Hampshire and expressed his anger about Ty Gibbs did not give up his place to Hamlin, who is running for a championship while his teammate is not.
“I think it is definitely fair to say that a line crossed and that was bad, “said Christopher Bell on Saturday at Kansas Speedway.” We do not need to destroy any teammate. With luck, we better advance. I think that is the goal for us to run better than us. “
Hamlin said: “We had some meetings this week and all were productive meetings. The entrails of that will be confidential.”
Hamlin said: “All drivers had the opportunity to speak and try to find a plan. We did everything possible to create one.”
Racing Joe Gibbs pilots take three of the five best initial places.
Hamlin said he could have better managed the incident of last weekend.
“I definitely got hot under the necklace and went too far from me,” Hamlin said. “There were things that I would like to have been able to do a bit differently.”
As for Ty Gibbs?
After qualifying on Saturday, Ty Gibbs walked through Pit Road and entered a golf cart. When he began to answer a journalist’s question, he was taken out.
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The teammate Chase Briscoe, in her first year at Joe Gibbs Racing, experienced a different type of meeting she has with Joe Gibbs.
“They gave me the mind of how good it is to be a coach and leader,” Briscoe said in response to an NBC Sports question. “It makes sense why it has succeeded on the side of the career of things, but even on the side of training. It is very good to explain things and put things in perspective.”
Ryan Blaney made a tire fall before hitting the wall.
Briscoe said he felt that things would change for teammates after the meeting.
“I certainly believe that things will be different in the future for us only from one side of a teammate, just trying to make it easier for all of us, “said Briscoe … It is unfortunate that things have to happen, but generally when you have to have difficult conversations, things are normally better in the future. I am sure it will be.”
Chris Gabehart, competition director of Joe Gibbs Racing, said: “From time to time, when you compete forward on a high level, you must review this and understand that everyone is running for something and that everyone has to be heard and then we have to reach a resolution of how we run in the future.
“That is exactly what happened. I will not enter any of the details, and, frankly, the actions speak more than the words. That is true for anyone here, not only JGR drivers. I only have to focus on Kansas and know that we did our part this week and everyone said their peace and we will pass from there.”