$1,000,000 on the Line in the In-Season Challenge
Racing for a Million! This weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Ty Dillon will go head-to-head with Ty Gibbs in the In-Season Challenge in the Championship Round. The driver with the highest finish will win $1 million.
Ty Dillon will make his sixth Cup Series start at Indianapolis Motor Speedway this weekend in the Brickyard 400. In his five previous starts at the track, Dillon had a best finish of 13th in 2019 and had four finishes in the top 20, with his worse finish being 21st.
“I’m looking forward to this weekend. Our team is excited, not just the No. 10 team, but everyone at Kaulig Racing. I’ve won at Indianapolis before and kissed the bricks in the Xfinity Series and every time I’ve gone to Indy, on the big track, I’ve felt very comfortable. I ran Indy last year, so it’s one of the few tracks I’ve ran in the last year, everywhere else, I’ve had a whole year off from racing and you feel like you’re a mile behind and trying to catch up all weekend. I love going back to the tracks where I had an opportunity to run last year. Indy is a place I really look forward to racing and think we can have a good run this weekend and give ourselves a shot at winning the In-Season Challenge and walking away with the million.” Ty Dillon
A charge to fifth place at Dover continued Ty Gibbs’ recent surge, and he now sits in the top 16 in points after averaging an 8.0 finish over the past seven races. He’s a former Brickyard winner — on the road course and in the Xfinity Series, so take it with a grain of salt as it pertains to Sunday — but lines up well to perhaps crack through for his first Cup triumph there this weekend, with extra motivation fueling him with $1 million on the line.
So how do you win a race within the race? Gibbs is trying to keep it simple.“I think it’s most important to win the race, and then we can win the million bucks with it,” Ty Gibbs said.
As an interesting note, though Gibbs and Dillon have varying levels of NASCAR Cup series experience, neither has won a Cup race in their careers. Gibbs has twice finished runner-up — coming at Darlington a year ago and earlier this month at Chicago. Dillion’s career-best finish came in 2020 at Talladega where he took third place.
Gibbs qualified sixth and finished 23rd in last season’s Brickyard 400, while Dillon started 22nd and came in 19th.
May the best Ty win.
— NASCAR (@NASCAR) July 27, 2025
The highest finisher among these two Sunday wins the inaugural In-Season Challenge and a $1,000,000 prize. 💰 pic.twitter.com/zbtUJ6BNSb
Ty Gibbs qualified fifth and Ty Dillon twenty-sixth for today’s Brickyard 400 Presented by PPG.
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