Denny Hamlin's 2019 Daytona 500 win was a 'special' day for Joe Gibbs Racing who had lost their co-owner, J.D. Gibbs a month earlier. The win became an emotional moment for his father and owner ...

J.D. Gibbs, the son of team founder Joe Gibbs, had already discovered Hamlin at a late model test at Hickory Speedway in the 2000s. As Gibbs remembers it, Hamlin might have had some equipment to ...