SPORT CLIPS IS A Proud Sponsor of
NASCAR'S Joe Gibbs Racing
Sport Clips Racing enters its 16th season in 2024 as a partner with Joe Gibbs Racing as a Family of Drivers Sponsor and a year-long associate sponsor on the #11 Sport Clips Toyota Camry XSE.
Denny Hamlin enters his 19th season with Joe Gibbs Racing, with Sport Clips as a season-long associate sponsor on NASCARS’s #11 Toyota Camry XSE. The Chesterfield, Virginia native has cemented himself as one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history after becoming only the 15th driver to claim 50 NASCAR Cup Series victories. Hamlin has qualified for the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs in 17 of his 18 seasons (2006-2012 and 2014-2023). He has scored six wins driving the Sport Clips paint scheme - an Xfinity Series win at Richmond Raceway in 2011 and victories at Atlanta Motor Speedway (Cup, 2012) and Darlington Raceway (Cup, 2017; Xfinity, 2015, 2017, 2023).
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
- 2016, 2019, 2020 Daytona 500 Winner
- 2010, 2017, 2021 Southern 500 Winner
- 2022 Coca-Cola 600 Winners
- 2015 All-Star Race Winner
- 2006 NASCAR Cup Series Rookie of the Year
Martin Truex Jr. is a second-generation race car driver who has earned championships in both of the NASCAR Xfinity Series as well as the NASCAR Cup Series and has cemented his place among the elite in NASCAR's top series. Truex enters 2024 NASCAR Cup Series returning for his sixth season driving the No. 19 Toyota Camry TRD for Joe Gibbs Racing. Through 19 full-time seasons at the premiere level of stock car racing, Truex's resume includes a Cup Series championship in 2017, 34 race wins, 142 top-five and 280 top-10 finishes. Along with his 2017 Cup Series Championship, Truex is also a two-time NASCAR Xfinity Series champion (2004-2005) and a 13 race winner in the series. Truex brought home his lone NASCAR Crafstman Truck Series race victory in 2021 at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway's dirt surface in his lone start in the series.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
- 2017 NASCAR Cup Series Champion
- 2016, 2019 Coca-Cola 600 Winner
- 2016 Southern 500 Winner
Christopher Bell enters his fifth season in the NASCAR Cup Series and fourth behind the wheel of the No. 20 Toyota Camry XSE for Joes Gibbs Racing (JGR) in 2024. Crew chief Adam Stevens led Bell and the No. 20 team in back-to-back final four runs and looks to continue building on that success in 2024.
Bell earned two wins in 2023 - the first was at Bristol dirt securing his position in the playoffs and then again at Homestead to lock Bell into the final four at Phoenix. Bell finished the season fourth in points with two wins, 10 top-five, 19 top-10 finishes and six poles. Bell earned the Busch Light Pole Award, recognizing his series-high six pole starting positions throughout the season.
Bell earned three victorities in 2022, including walk-off wins at Charlotte ROVAL and Martinsville to propel him throughout the Championship and lock him into the final four. Bell finished the season third in points with three wins, 12 top-five and 20 top-10 finishes, four poles and over 500 laps led. In 2021, Bell earned his first NCS win in just the second start of the season at the Daytona Road Course, locking him into the Playoff field. In his sophomore NCS season Bell earned one win, seven top-five, 16 top-10 finishes and closed out the season 12th in the standings. Bell made the most of his rookie year in the Cup Series in 2020 during a worldwide pandemic and despite not having practice and qualifying was able to grow and improve throughout the season, earning two top-five and seven top-10 finishes. The 2018 NXS season was Bell's first full year competing in the series. Bell found his way to victory lane seven times in 2018, setting the win record by a Rookie. In addition to the record seven wins, Bell started form the pole position five time and earned 10 top-five and 18 top-10 finishes. Bell captured the 2017 NASCAR Truck Series Championship in his second full-time season.
CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:
- 2023 - Second Consecutive Championship 4 appearance; 2 NASCAR Cup Series wins; Busch Light Pole Award winner
- 2022 - 2 NASCAR Cup Series wins - first driver to qualify for the Championship 4 in all three series
- 2021 - Earned first NASCAR Cup Series victory with his win on the Daytona Road Course
- 2020 - First full year competing in the NASCAR Cup Series
- 2019 - 8 NASCAR Xfinity Series Wins & Chili Bowl Winner
- 2018 - 7 NASCAR Xfinity Series Wins (set the rookie single season NXS win record) & Chili Bowl Winner
- 2017 - NASCAR Truck Series Champion & Chili Bowl Winner
Ty Gibbs is in his second full season season in the NASCAR Cup Series and was awarded the 2023 NASCAR Cup Rookie of the Year award. He is the 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series Champion, 2021 ARCA Menard's Series Champion and 2021 NASCAR Xfinity Rookie of the Year. He's just 21 years old, but had four top-five and 10 top-10 finishes in the Cup Series in 2023. And in just 59 career Xfinity starts, he won 12 races, scored 39 top-10 finishes and led 1,434 laps. His NASCAR Cup career got started in the summer of 2022 as he filled in for the injured Kurt Busch for 23XI Racing. In Gibbs' Xfinity Series debut in February 2023 at the Daytona International Speedway Road Course, he led 14 of the 56 laps en route to his first career Xfinity Series win. Gibbs became the youngest driver to win an Xfinity road course race at 18 years, 4 months, 16 days. The Charlotte, N.C., native also became the second-youngest winner in Xfinity Series history after Joey Logano, who won in June 2008 at Kentucky Speedway in Sparta when he was 18 years and 21 days old.
DARLINGTON RACEWAY PARTNERSHIP
Sport Clips has a long-standing partnership with Darlington Raceway, having served as the entitlement partner of the NASCAR XFINITY Series Sport Clips Haircuts VFW 200 race at the famed South Carolina track since 2012.
The Sport Clips Haircuts VFW 200 event has been one of the top events on the XFINITY Series race schedule, producing winners such as Denny Hamlin (2023, 2017, and 2015), Brandon Jones (2020), Brad Keslowski (2018), and Elliott Sadler (2016).
The Sport Clips Haircuts VFW 200 is held each year on the Saturday of Labor Day weekend. The tradition continues August 31 & September 1, 2024 in conjunction with the Southern 500 that will launch the Chase for the Cup Championship. Watch as drivers earn their Darlington Stripe at the track "Too Tough to Tame."
With kids 12 and under admitted FREE, and Darlington Raceway and Sport Clips’ support of veterans and the VFW Foundation culminating in a strong military ticket offer, the Sport Clips Haircuts VFW 200 is truly a unique race experience for all fans. For ticket information, click here .