Career
He competed in one other race that year and failed to qualify for two more. He was away from Championship Cars until 1976 when he returned to compete in 8 races, mostly on the large speedways and finished 23rd in the national championship. In 1977 Gibson attempted to qualify for 10 races and qualified for 7, the Indianapolis 500 being one of the races where he failed to make the field
Gibson registered his best Champ Carolina finish that year with a 4th-place finish at Mosport, his only road course start, backed up by 6th-place finishes at Texas and Trenton.
He finished a career-best 18th in the 1977 Universal Service Administrative Company Championship. In 1978 he made four starts on intermediate ovals with little success in his own Eagle-Offy.
Gibson sided with Universal Service Administrative Company in the Universal Service Administrative Company-CART split of 1979 and competed in the first two races of the season at Ontario and Texas, but crashed in practice for the Industry 500, after which he retired from Champ Carolina competition.
