Buescher frustrated again by late-race Darlington scuffle

Chris Buescher described Sunday at Darlington Raceway as good, hard racing until it wasn’t, as he struggled to understand Tyler Reddick’s move that took them both out of contention for the victory. Buescher was leading the Goodyear 400 going into …

Buescher was leading the Goodyear 400 going into Turn 3 with 10 laps to go when Reddick drove to the inside. As he ran up against the wall, Buescher’s RFK Racing Ford Mustang wiggled and caught the wall with the right front. Nearly simultaneously, Reddick came up the track and collided with Buescher, sending the No. 17 back into the outside wall.

The contact cut down a right-side tire for Reddick, and he fell off the pace down the frontstretch. Buescher fell off the pace with a flat left rear tire going down the backstretch, giving the lead to teammate and RFK co-owner Brad Keselowski.

“They got side-by-side and got checked up, and we got by completely clean and was trying to take care of stuff but run hard,” Buescher said of having taken the lead with 30 laps to go when Keselowski and Reddick bounced off each other off Turn 4. “[He] just went for a move there that was never going to happen and wiped us both out. It was hard enough that we wheel hopped into the fence; it’s not just a door-to-door contact and a little push and shove. It ruined both of our days.

“I’m really frustrated by that; really [angry] about it. I don’t get it. We’ve been able to race clean for how long, and to take our group, this Fifth Third Bank No. 17 team, out of contention for a trophy — for another week to miss out on it, it’s starting to hurt.”

Buescher finished 30th after leading 21 laps. He finished seventh in both stages.

On pit road after the race, a visibly frustrated Buescher confronted Reddick. Buescher said the two have never had previous issues with each other.

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“I’m struggling to understand the reason,” he said.

Of their conversation, Reddick admitted that everything Buescher said to him was accurate. The 23XI driver took responsibility for being aggressive after Buescher had raced him clean.

“I appreciate him saying he screwed up,” Buescher said. “We haven’t had issues in the past. That being said, it doesn’t change what just happened. There is a win sticker on his door top that I told him about that makes a bad day like this not matter near as much to them. But it still matters to us.

“That was a major cost to us today, not only for a win but to finish (30th) because of a flat tire. Fortunately we got stage points on the day from running well, but one poor decision and saying sorry doesn’t fix it.”

Keselowski went on to win the race after his teammate’s misfortune. The victory broke Ford’s winless streak and was the first for Keselowski as co-owner of RFK Racing.

For the second straight week, though, Buescher was left with nothing to show for his performance. He’s led 75 laps in the last two races.

“There’s plenty of positive out of it,” Buescher said. “There’s a fight in this team right now that no single on-track accident is going to take away from us. There’s speed there, obviously, with Brad winning a race. That’s huge – I’m trying to calm down and get all this right. Congrats to Brad on a huge win; that’s awesome.

“But man, to be in contention and be wiped out, selfishly, it’s hurting me, and we got to get back on track and get back in the hunt for one of these things and just try to find a clean run to the finish.”

Keselowski finally finds victory lane once again at Darlington

A combination of stubbornness and patience paid off handsomely for Brad Keselowski on Sunday at Darlington Raceway, where the driver of the No. 6 Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing Ford ended a 110-race winless streak with victory in the Goodyear 400. …

Keselowski’s triumph, which came at the expense of hard-luck teammate Chris Buescher and pole winner Tyler Reddick, gave the Ford Dark Horse Mustang its first NASCAR Cup Series victory this season in 13 races and led to a heated exchange between Beuscher and Reddick on pit road after the fact.

It was also Keselowski’s first win as a principal in RFK Racing, his second at Darlington and the 36th of his career.

“What a heck of a day,” exulted Keselowski, who finished 1.214s ahead of runner-up Ty Gibbs. “It’s Darlington, so whether it’s your first win, your last win, this is a really special track. The history of NASCAR, it’s as tough as it gets, and that battle at the end with my teammate and Tyler Reddick, we just laid it all out on the line, it was freaking awesome.

“I thought it couldn’t get much better than Kansas. It did today. That was awesome. I’m so glad you guys got to see that (addressed to the fans). That was incredible. Thanks for being here.”

Keselowski was stubborn in the way he raced Reddick after the final restart on lap 261 of 293, aggressively staying beside the No. 45 Toyota and running him up the track in Turn 3.

For four straight laps, Keselowski and Reddick battled side-by-side, allowing Buescher to slip past into the lead at the start/finish line on lap 264. Reddick cleared Keselowski shortly thereafter and took off in pursuit of Buescher.

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That’s when Keselowski exercised patience as stayed within striking distance, waiting for the drama that unfolded ahead of him.

On lap 284, Reddick’s ill-timed bid for the lead went awry, and his No. 45 Camry slid up the track into Buescher’s Ford, pinning it against the outside wall in Turn 4. Both cars were damaged and unable to maintain pace, and Keselowski charged into the lead on Lap 285.

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Buescher, still smarting from last week’s loss to Kyle Larson at Kansas in the closest finish in Cup Series history (0.001s), confronted Reddick on pit road after the drivers climbed from their cars.

“We got wrecked,” Buescher said later. “That one’s clear as day. Don’t need any cameras to tell us. I don’t know what to say. We’ve raced really clean through the years, tried to be really respectful about it, and we get used up.

“It (Reddick’s move) is just something that you know is not going to work. I’m just really [angry] about it right now. We certainly had a chance to win another one. I’m proud to have that speed. Just huge congratulations to Brad and the No. 6 bunch on their win. That’s awesome, but I wanted it for our group right here.”

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Reddick took responsibility for the incident and punctuated his conversation with Buescher with the words “I know. I [screwed] up—I’m sorry.”

Reddick elaborated after he and Buescher separated.

“I completely understand where he is coming from,” Reddick said. “He was running the top, running his own race, running his own line to keep me at bay. I made a really aggressive move and was hoping I was going to clear him. When I realized I wasn’t going to, I tried to check up to not slide up into him, but, yeah, I wish I wouldn’t have done that.

“I completely understand why he is that mad. He did nothing wrong. Just trying to win the race, and to take myself out—that’s one thing—I can live with that, but just disappointed it played out the way that it did, and I took him out of the race as well.”

All but lost in the late-race drama was Gibbs’ career-best second-place finish. The driver of the No. 54 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota also finished second in Stage 1 and third in Stage 2 behind respective stage winners Kyle Larson and Reddick.

Josh Berry finished third in his No. 4 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford, followed by Denny Hamlin and Chase Briscoe. William Byron, Bubba Wallace, Alex Bowman, Justin Haley and Michael McDowell completed the top 10.

Hamlin led one lap during a cycle of green-flag pit stops in the final stage, extending his streak of consecutive races with at least one lap led to 17.

Larson (34th on Sunday after a late-race crash) leads the series standings by 30 points over Martin Truex Jr., who finished 25th after suffering alternator issues.

RESULTS

Growing SHR ‘study group’ is beginning to pay dividends

Ryan Preece found the Stewart-Haas Racing study group to be a good resource after attending it for the first time this week. He raised eyebrows May 4 when he responded, “Study group I wasn’t aware of,” with a shrugging emoji to a social media post …

Ryan Preece found the Stewart-Haas Racing study group to be a good resource after attending it for the first time this week.

He raised eyebrows May 4 when he responded, “Study group I wasn’t aware of,” with a shrugging emoji to a social media post about his three teammates getting together. It started when Noah Gragson admitted he needed help in his preparation process, and he went to Chase Briscoe, who has a similar style.

The “study group” has evolved to include Josh Berry, who joined for the first time two weeks ago. Other Stewart-Haas Racing personnel are also involved, helping them better understand the drivers since everyone might be saying the same thing but express it differently. Preece joined for the first time this week after seeing the social media post about the group.

“Ultimately I do a lot of prep on my own,” Preece said. “But being in there in that group on Tuesday, people at SHR were able to clip things together and for the 10 to 12 hours of work I do on my own, it condensed it into an hour and a half. I think the biggest thing you can take away from it is just communication among the four drivers. That’s what you don’t have when you do it on your own.”

As for why he publicly responded (and drew attention) to not being previously aware of the group, Preece said, “I wasn’t targeting anybody. The reason I commented what I did was [because] I was taken by surprise, but I felt like that was attacking my integrity as a person who works really hard.

“It doesn’t matter what the results are now from the last two weeks — I take pride in myself [as someone] who works really hard. I know Door Bumper Clear (podcast) and Freddie [Kraft] said, ‘Why comment on it?’ Well, my pride and who I am as a person in my work ethic means a lot to me, and I don’t want the public to think I’m lazy, because I’m not.”

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There has never been an issue of the four Stewart-Haas drivers getting along or working together. All four have repeatedly stated how much time they spend together and how well things have gone since the lineup was finalized coming into the season. It’s been a focus for everyone at Stewart-Haas to work closer together as one team instead of four separate entities.

“It’s something that over the offseason, we all sat down as a group and were trying to figure out if we needed to hire a driver coach or whatever it may be,” Briscoe said. “Me and [Richard] Boswell and Noah and Drew [Blickensderfer] honestly kind of took it upon ourselves about a month and a half ago. How me and Noah study is definitely different than how other guys study, and we needed something to hold each other accountable.

“We just decided we were going to start us two together and see where it grew. It’s grown, and it’s cool to see the progression.”

Briscoe leads the way at 14th in the championship standings. He has four top-10 finishes. Gragson leads the organization with five top-10 finishes, but he’s been fighting to reclaim lost ground, now 19th in the standings, from an early season points deduction (35) for a roof rail infraction.

Berry is 23rd in points and has yet to score a top 10. Preece, whose team was also docked 35 points for the roof rail infraction has one top 10 and is 29th in the standings.

The four have all taken turns at being the best Stewart-Haas car on any given weekend. Texas Motor Speedway, for example, was one event where all four seemed even and ran in the top 15, although the results were scattered in the end due to different circumstances.

“I feel like it helps me [and] Noah feels like it helps him,” Briscoe said. “I feel like there’s still a long way we could go from the standpoint of how we’re building it, but it is nice. [It’s] not just drivers and crew chiefs, now we have engineers in there, and they can kind of hear the drivers being [in] an open dialogue, and I feel like that goes a long way. Even Zippy [Greg Zipadelli] has been sitting in on them.

“It’s been really good for all of us. It’s obviously helped us on the racetrack, but from a communications standpoint, it’s made it where, after practice, I can get out, go to Ryan, Josh or Noah, and the lingo and things we’ve talked about all week…we know. It makes a two-minute conversation a 30-second conversation, so it just makes things way easier from that standpoint.”

Allgaier finishes off dominating Xfinity Series win at Darlington

Justin Allgaier finally beat Murphy’s Law to the checkered flag in Saturday’s Crown Royal Purple Bag Project 200 at Darlington Raceway. This time, there were no bizarre circumstances to keep the driver of the No. 7 JR Motorsports Chevrolet out of …

Justin Allgaier finally beat Murphy’s Law to the checkered flag in Saturday’s Crown Royal Purple Bag Project 200 at Darlington Raceway.

This time, there were no bizarre circumstances to keep the driver of the No. 7 JR Motorsports Chevrolet out of victory lane, like the late cut tire that deprived Allgaier of a near-certain win at Phoenix in the fourth race of the season.

After crossing the finish line 3.407s ahead of runner-up Austin Hill, Allgaier had his first victory of the season, his third at the Lady in Black and the 24th of his career, tying him with his car owner, Dale Earnhardt Jr., for 10th most in NASCAR Xfinity Series history.

Allgaier, 37, also leaves Darlington as the career leader in top-10 finishes in the series with 267, having broken a tie with Kyle Busch in that statistical category.

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“I just wanted [spotter Eddie D’Hondt] call ‘white flag,’” said Allgaier, who had led laps in seven of 10 events this season without winning. “We’ve had such a heck of a year. We’ve led a ton of laps, and we haven’t been able to do it…

“I think having a little gray hair today helped me out, though. Those long green-flag runs, and being able to know what’s worked in the past here… I didn’t know if the day would come when I’d be able to match Dale Jr. Not only is he a great boss but a really good mentor.

“To come here and be able to tie him, to be able to take over the all-time top 10s, man, there’s nothing better.”

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Hill, who led six laps to Allgaier’s 119 of 147, blamed himself for not being able to challenge his fellow Chevrolet driver for the victory.

“I just couldn’t get into Turn 1 on restarts like I really needed to all day,” said the driver of the No. 21 Richard Childress Racing Camaro. “It was just me. I’ve just got to figure out what to do differently getting into Turn 1.

“I did really good with my launches. That’s something that I struggled with here where I’d buzz the tires late in the zone. Didn’t do that all day—I felt pretty good about my restarts—but I would get down into [Turn 1] and I’d get tight…

“More than anything, I’ve just got to do a better job inside the race car. I thought we were just as good as the No. 7 all day. Congrats to those guys. We were just that little bit off today, and I think most of it was me.”

Polesitter Cole Custer recovered from a disastrous pit stop under an early competition caution to finish third, followed by Sam Mayer and Aric Almirola.

“Every time I get in this car, I plan to win and expect to win,” Almirola said. “Fifth is great, but I want to win—but Justin was so fast.”

Parker Kligerman, Riley Herbst, Sunoco rookie Jesse Love, Sheldon Creed and Brandon Jones completed the top 10. Rookie Shane van Gisbergen finished 15th in his first Darlington start. Carson Kvapil was 19th in his third race in the series and his first at Darlington.

Hill took the series lead by three points over Custer in second.

RESULTS

Reddick emulates Tim Richmond en route to pole at Darlington

Tyler Reddick showed up to Darlington Raceway with a Tim Richmond throwback paint scheme and mustache. Saturday afternoon, in the spirit of the fast and talented Richmond, the 23XI Racing driver put the No. 45 Toyota on the top of the leaderboard in …

Reddick scored the pole for the Goodyear 400 with a lap of 170.124mph (28.906s) in the final round of qualifying. It’s Reddick’s first pole of the season and at Darlington.

“He is a driver, in my opinion, whether he was at the track or away from the track, was always living life to the fullest and was happy living the life he was,” Reddick said of the late Richmond. “There is a lot of truth to that. If you are, throughout your week, just dreading whatever it is — it bleeds into what happens and what you take to the racetrack. I think, in my opinion, Tim was always happy doing whatever he was doing. How he lived his life during the week, what he would do — he was having fun, enjoying himself, and that crept over into the race weekend and allowed him to get in the car with a great mindset and allowed him to drive the daylights out of it,

“So, for me, I think that’s a big part of it. And then what he could do inside of a race car is also something I always extremely appreciated about him.”

Brad Keselowski qualified second. Keselowski’s best lap was 170.018mph. Chris Buescher, Keselowski’s teammate, qualified third at 169.543mph.

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Ty Gibbs qualified fourth at 169.491mph, and William Byron qualified fifth at 169.397mph. Byron is the defending winner of the Goodyear 400.

Kyle Larson qualified sixth at 169.374mph, Denny Hamlin qualified seventh at 169.310mph and Bubba Wallace qualified eighth at 169.176mph. Ross Chastain qualified ninth at 169.001mph, and Martin Truex Jr., who brushed the wall during his lap, rounded out the top 10 at 164.904.

Michael McDowell qualified 16th at 169.578mph. McDowell was fastest in practice Saturday morning but did not advance to the final round of qualifying.

Erik Jones qualified 30th in his first race since suffering a compression fracture of a lower vertebra at Talladega Superspeedway in late April.

Chase Elliott qualified 31st, Josh Berry 33rd and Noah Gragson 36th. There are 36 drivers in the field.

The Goodyear 400 is at 3 p.m. ET Sunday. Reddick is looking for his first win at Darlington.

“We brought a really fast Toyota Camry,” Reddick said. “We did a good job in practice understanding what our car needed for qualifying, and we just maximized qualifying well.”

RESULTS

McDowell leads Darlington practice

Michael McDowell set the pace early in NASCAR Cup Series practice at Darlington Raceway and it was enough to make him the fastest driver overall Saturday morning. McDowell’s No. 34 Ford Mustang Dark Horse led the way at 169.444mph (20.022s). It was …

Michael McDowell set the pace early in NASCAR Cup Series practice at Darlington Raceway and it was enough to make him the fastest driver overall Saturday morning.

McDowell’s No. 34 Ford Mustang Dark Horse led the way at 169.444mph (20.022s). It was his second lap on the track.

Ty Gibbs was second fastest (168.567mph), Chris Buescher was third fastest (168.457mph), and Christopher Bell was fourth fastest (168.376mph). William Byron completed the top five in practice (168.186mph).

Byron is the defending race winner.

Joey Logano was sixth fastest (167.985mph), Erik Jones was seventh fastest in his return to the seat (167.871mph), Corey LaJoie was eighth fastest (167.853mph), and Denny Hamlin was ninth fastest (167.762mph). Ricky Stenhouse Jr. rounded out the top 10 (167.579mph).

Cup Series championship leader Kyle Larson was 15th fastest. Larson’s best lap was 167.197mph.

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There were no significant incidents in practice but a few drivers wind up with a “Darlington stripe.” Among them were Tyler Reddick, Kyle Larson, Denny Hamlin, and Kyle Busch.

Austin Cindric was fastest in the best 10 consecutive lap average. It was Cindric over Chris Buescher, Kyle Larson, Todd Gilliland, and Michael McDowell.

There are 36 drivers entered in the Goodyear 400.

Jones returns to competition with revamped driver’s seat

Erik Jones returns to NASCAR competition this weekend at Darlington Raceway with changes to the cockpit of his Legacy Motor Club Toyota. Jones missed the last two Cup Series races recovering from a compression fracture in a lower vertebra. It is an …

Erik Jones returns to NASCAR competition this weekend at Darlington Raceway with changes to the cockpit of his Legacy Motor Club Toyota.

Jones missed the last two Cup Series races recovering from a compression fracture in a lower vertebra. It is an injury that Jones has described as mild, as it was one vertebra. During his recovery, which has consisted of rest and pain management and not necessarily a set therapy regimen, Jones has not had a back brace and will not have any such support while in the car.

The injury occurred during a frontal impact April 21 at Talladega Superspeedway.

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“I have changed a lot in the car,” Jones said Saturday morning before practice at Darlington Raceway. “I’ve changed my seat and some belt angles and a handful of things that we found that could have been better before the wreck at Talladega. So, I think it’s been a big learning experience. We’ve all learned a lot internally on what we can do better on safety — there are all kinds of different opinions out there on what’s right and wrong, and we’re always learning. But I feel like we’re in a better spot now, for me at least, of what I can do in the car.

“I hadn’t made a lot of changes, frankly, in a lot of years. I ran the same seat and everything for about eight years, and it was time to switch things up, obviously.”

There will likely be things after Sunday’s race at Darlington that Jones anticipates will need to be tweaked going forward as he adjusts to the changes. Sunday’s race is 400 miles, and next weekend is the All-Star Race, which is a much shorter race week than usual.

Jones, who has won twice at Darlington Raceway, admitted to being 95% healthy but feeling 100% to race. He returned to the simulator last week before Kansas Speedway, running for about an hour to an hour and a half and said he felt good. In the session, Jones ran different tracks where the movement in the simulator would give him a feeling for what his back would experience.

“I felt fine from the impact (of the tracks) and being in there for that long,” Jones said.

There was the possibility, Jones admitted, of returning from his injury the week after it occurred. However, the physical toll Dover Motor Speedway takes on a driver meant it was “not a place that was going to happen.” Doctors cleared Jones to return at Kansas Speedway, but Legacy Motor Club kept him on the sidelines for an additional week of rest.

Kansas is an intermediate racetrack, but with high speeds, the thought turned to the risk of being in another incident. And one that might not have been Jones’ fault. The three-week mark to return feels on the safe side of Jones nearly being 100% recovered.

“I feel like you can control your own destiny a bit (at Darlington), and there’s less risk for an incident like that,” Jones said.

NASCAR granted Jones a waiver, and he remains eligible for the postseason. Jones fell from 20th to 27th in the standings in the two races he was sidelined.

Van Gisbergen’s learning curve continues in Xfinity Series

Shane van Gisbergen has been grinding away in his rookie NASCAR Xfinity Series season and hasn’t paid much attention to where he stacks up within the field. “I haven’t really looked at the points too much,” van Gisbergen said Friday at Darlington …

Shane van Gisbergen has been grinding away in his rookie NASCAR Xfinity Series season and hasn’t paid much attention to where he stacks up within the field.

“I haven’t really looked at the points too much,” van Gisbergen said Friday at Darlington Raceway. “Obviously you want to make the playoffs, and road courses are my best shot with that, but being able to point my way in would be amazing as well. I think my position in 15th is probably better than my pace at the moment — that’s just from being consistent and finishing all the laps.

“Hopefully that helps me later on and we can get closer to pointing our way in, and if we win a race, we’ll be in as well. I don’t really have expectations or a goal for myself. I just want to keep learning and getting better and do the right thing, so that gets me in a seat in the Cup Series next year.”

There are four road course races left in the Xfinity Series regular season: Portland (June 1), Sonoma (June 8), Chicago (July 6), and Watkins Glen (Sept. 14). The postseason grid will be made up of 12 drivers, and five have already clinched a spot through a victory.

After 10 races, van Gisbergen is 15th in the standings with two top-10 finishes and 21 laps led. An engine failure at Las Vegas Motor Speedway is the only race van Gisbergen wasn’t running in at the finish. He has completed 1,603 of 1,777 laps (90.2 percent).

“It’s amazing that I’ve done almost as much as I would have done in Australia already [at this point in] the year. It’s pretty cool,” the Kiwi said. “We had some really good results at the start of the year, which probably makes the last few weeks seem not as good. But for me, I just want to be completing every lap, which means finishing on the lead lap, straight car, and we’ve been achieving that.

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“I’m competitive by nature, so I want to be getting good results soon and there are some good tracks coming up for me. I want to succeed at the ovals, too, and get better there.”

Atlanta Motor Speedway saw him finish third — a superspeedway-style track. The team capitalized when it came down to fuel mileage as the race went past its scheduled distance. A sixth-place finish at Phoenix Raceway is van Gisbergen’s best finish on a traditional oval. He has averaged a 20th-place running position in eight of 10 races (Las Vegas and Dover the exceptions).

“It’s been pretty tough. It’s been really good, though,” van Gisbergen said of the season. “A lot of fun, a lot of learning, and I’m loving racing every week and a different challenge every week. This stretch of races is probably what we singled out as the most difficult: Dover and Texas and this place (Darlington), and then the Coke 600 in a couple of weeks. I’ve got some pretty tough weeks here, but I feel like we’re getting through it OK.

“Obviously we want to be a bit quicker… [For my] first time at these tracks, [staying clean is] sort of the goal, and then toward the end of the year, especially when we come back to these places, we’ll try to push for better results. I’ve been enjoying it, been having some great races with people and ending most weeks with a smile on my face.”

This weekend at Darlington Raceway, he’ll start from the 17th position, with the first laps on track coming at the green flag after rain canceled practice and qualifying.

Racing on TV, May 10-12

All times Eastern; live broadcasts unless noted. Friday, May 10 Indy GP practice 1 9:30-10:45am Berlin practice 1 10:55am Indy GP practice 2 1:10-2:10pm Darlington qualifying 3:00-4:30pm Indy GP qualifying 4:20-5:50pm Darlington qualifying …

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Friday, May 10

	Indy GP practice 1	9:30-10:45am
	Berlin practice 1	10:55am
	Indy GP practice 2	1:10-2:10pm
	Darlington qualifying	3:00-4:30pm
	Indy GP qualifying	4:20-5:50pm
	Darlington qualifying	5:00-6:30pm
	Indy GP Race 1	6:10-7:25pm
	Darlington	6:30-7:30pm pre-race 7:30-10:00pm race

Saturday, May 11

	Berlin practice 2	1:55am
	Berlin qualifying	4:00am
	Spa start	6:30-8:00am
	Berlin Race 1	8:00am
	Le Mans Sprint	8:30-10:00am
	Darlington qualifying	10:30am- 12:30pm
	Indy GP warmup	11:15-11:45am
	Spa finish	12:00-1:30pm
	Darlington	12:30-1:30pm pre-race 1:30-4:00pm race
	Indy GP Race 2	1:00-2:15pm
	Indy GP	3:00-3:30pm pre-race 3:30-5:30pm race
	Laguna Seca	4:55-7:00pm
	Indy GP post-race	5:30-6:00pm
	Laguna Seca qualifying	7:30-8:15pm
	Salt Lake City	8:00-11:00pm
	Laguna Seca Race 1	8:35-9:30pm

Sunday, May 12

	Berlin practice 3	1:55am
	Le Mans	7:30-10:00am
	Berlin Race 2	8:00am
	Laguna Seca Race 2	12:35-1:30pm
	COTA	1:30-2:30pm (D)
	Darlington	1:30-3:00pm pre-race 3:00-6:30pm race
	Salt Lake City	2:00-3:00pm (R)
	Laguna Seca	3:00-6:00pm

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Clean second place enough for Reddick, this time

Tyler Reddick came up one spot short of a Southern 500 victory but a clean night for his 23XI Racing team was a small triumph. “We did what we needed to do here tonight,” Reddick said. “I really wanted to be two for two in South Carolina with UNC …

Tyler Reddick came up one spot short of a Southern 500 victory but a clean night for his 23XI Racing team was a small triumph.

“We did what we needed to do here tonight,” Reddick said. “I really wanted to be two for two in South Carolina with UNC colors, but it just didn’t work out. But it was a night we needed to have and I really enjoyed it. Definitely, when we come back next year, I’m going to be even hungrier to try to win that trophy.”

Reddick’s No. 45 Toyota Camry sported Jordan Brand sponsorship with the baby blue color of UNC, Jordan’s alma mater. Saturday night, UNC beat the South Carolina Gamecocks in the Duke’s Mayo Classic.

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Reddick led 90 laps in the Sunday night race, the second-most of any driver (Denny Hamlin led 177). He also earned 16 stage points by finishing second in Stage 1 (worth nine points) and fourth in Stage 2 (worth seven points).

A potential victory slipped away when Reddick lost control of the race on pit road with less than 60 laps to go. Kyle Larson beat Reddick off pit road to take the lead, and Reddick spent the rest of the race — and two more restarts — chasing the Hendrick Motorsports driver.

“Man, I don’t know, maybe just a little bit longer run,” Reddick said of trying to beat Larson. “It had just gotten short enough to where you didn’t save a whole lot, I don’t think. Kyle and I were pretty close the majority of the day, honestly. He just got ahead of us there, unfortunately, on pit road, but all in all, this is the day that we needed to have.

“I’m really just thankful for the hard work from the pit crew, the team, everyone at the shop. Days like this with a car like this, we haven’t been able to get a second-place finish out of it, so I’m really glad we’re able to do that. We’re sitting pretty good. It was a pretty good points day on top of that as well.”

The top four finishers were separated by less than a second at the finish line. As Reddick chased Larson, he was closely followed by Chris Buescher and William Byron.

“It was a tough balance,” Reddick said. “I wanted to keep pushing to try and get Kyle, but I was just getting so loose. I about wrecked in the middle of (Turns) 1 and 2 a few times. I don’t know, I was either going to catch Kyle or I was going to wreck in the middle of 1 and 2 and finish the last car out — 28th.

“It just didn’t make sense in my head, so we’ll take the second place. Hopefully, one day in the future, we come back and have another shot at the Southern 500.”