There surely was celebrating with a side of disappointment Monday within the walls of Joe Gibbs Racing. Of the four Joe Gibbs Racing teams that visited Las Vegas Motor Speedway this past weekend, only one left happy. The No. 19 team of Martin Truex Jr. and crew chief Cole Pearn won their Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series-leading fifth race , while the South Point Hotel & Casino 400 was a bust for Denny Hamlin, Kyle Busch and Erik Jones. All three were outside the top 10 at the checkered flag Sunday evening.

“Our sport is very different in that you got to have four teams work together to really gain knowledge, what happens at the racetrack, make the right calls and the right adjustments,” said Gibbs. “To show you how hard our sport is, last week (at Indianapolis Motor Speedway) we had all four cars that had issues. Four cars, they all had issues. This week, we had three of them.

“Hats off and real compliment to Cole and what he was able to do to keep the 19 up there, he and Martin. Also, we had great pit stops at the end. It was a total team effort. I think what the last two weeks for us just highlights how hard our sport is. Yeah, it is hard. Our meeting (Monday), our technical meeting, will be tough because three of them had a real tough day. I think what you need to do is try and figure out, OK, what happened, how do you keep it from happening again, and learn from those tough nights. So many different things can happen to you in motor sports.”