INDIANAPOLIS — It’s happened twice before. Kyle Busch swept the NASCAR weekend at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in taking the Xfinity Series win here in 2015 and again in 2016 while doing the same in that respective years’ Brickyard 400. No one has done it since.

Even with a change to the 2.439-mile road course layout, no one been able to do so.

Austin Cindric won in 2021 but was ninth in the Cup race. A year later, AJ Allmendinger won on Saturday but was seventh a day later.

Gibbs won Saturday’s Pennzoil 150. Can he win Sunday’s Verizon 200 (2:30 p.m. ET, NBC, IMS Radio Network)?

Ironically enough, he’s basically in the same ride that Busch accomplished this feat in. Busch left this offseason for RCR and is driving the same No. 8 Chevrolet that won this very race a season ago. That opened up a path for Gibbs. If you wipe off the No. 54 number on this door and hood, you’d see the No. 18 on it.

The 54 team is the 18 team.

Gibbs rolls off 10th for today’s race and enters having moved himself to the good side of the cutline heading into this weekend’s race. He’s finished 5th, 15th, 11th entering Sunday.

How much does racing for points vs. racing for the win play out?

The victory on Saturday was the first of the season for Gibbs, who won last year’s Xfinity title before moving up to his full-time Cup ride. It was his first victory on the Indy Road Course and his 12^th win in 58 starts in the series.

It was also his first trip to victory lane without his dad. He won last year’s Xfinity Series season finale and took home the championship in the process. Overnight, his dad passed away.

This is something that Gibbs has always done with family. His grandpa owns the team, his uncle was in a high leadership position. So was his dad.

His uncle passed away a few years ago and now his dad.

He entered his rookie season in Cup without that support. While he had his mom and his grandpa, his dad was gone and to win for the first time of his life without his pops is emotional.

Now, he’s hopeful of sweeping the weekend for his first career Cup win and stamp his name into the playoffs.