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Tyler Reddick clinches the 2024 Cup Series regular season championship

Tyler Reddick has clinched the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series regular season championship at Darlington Raceway.

[autotag]Tyler Reddick[/autotag] entered the 2024 NASCAR season looking to have a breakthrough year after making the Round of 8 in 2023. Reddick didn’t have enough to make the Championship 4 after failing to enter victory lane. However, the driver of the No. 45 car has put himself in a better position to make a serious run at the championship this year.

On Sunday night at Darlington Raceway, Reddick clinched the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series regular-season championship over Hendrick Motorsports drivers Kyle Larson and Chase Elliott. Reddick officially earned 15 playoff points, which equals out to three victories, for accomplishing the feat. It has been a great season for the No. 45 season through 26 races.

Now, Reddick will enter the Round of 16 at Atlanta Motor Speedway with 28 playoff points. The 23XI Racing driver may not have the most playoff points for the 2024 Cup Series playoffs, but his speed and consistency throughout the summer is an excellent indication of what’s to come for the No. 45 team. The chase for his first Cup Series title begins next weekend.

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Tyler Reddick wins the NASCAR Cup Series race at Michigan, full results

Tyler Reddick wins the NASCAR Cup Series race at Michigan International Speedway. Check out the full results and race recap from Michigan!

NASCAR arrived at Michigan International Speedway, and it was a tough weekend for everyone. The sport was forced to cancel qualifying, delay the start of the NASCAR Cup Series event, only complete 51 laps on Sunday, and postpone the race to Monday. However, for one 23XI Racing driver, it was worth the wait.

[autotag]Tyler Reddick[/autotag] won the FireKeepers Casino 400 at Michigan, earning his second victory of the 2024 NASCAR season. Reddick was cruising to victory before a late caution forced him to fend off William Byron during two overtimes. At the end of the day, the driver of the No. 45 car was too strong to beat.

Reddick now holds the Cup Series regular-season points leads with two races left. The 23XI Racing driver has been incredibly strong over the last 10 races and has created significant momentum going into the playoffs. If this trend continues, Reddick will be one of the championship favorites in November.

NASCAR results from Michigan in August 2024:

  1. No. 45 Tyler Reddick
  2. No. 24 William Byron
  3. No. 54 Ty Gibbs
  4. No. 8 Kyle Busch
  5. No. 6 Brad Keselowski
  6. No. 17 Chris Buescher
  7. No. 71 Zane Smith
  8. No. 99 Daniel Suarez
  9. No. 11 Denny Hamlin
  10. No. 77 Carson Hocevar
  11. No. 41 Ryan Preece
  12. No. 10 Noah Gragson
  13. No. 47 Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
  14. No. 21 Harrison Burton
  15. No. 9 Chase Elliott
  16. No. 43 Erik Jones
  17. No. 3 Austin Dillon
  18. No. 12 Ryan Blaney
  19. No. 34 Michael McDowell
  20. No. 51 Justin Haley
  21. No. 15 Cody Ware
  22. No. 4 Josh Berry
  23. No. 31 Daniel Hemric
  24. No. 19 Martin Truex Jr.
  25. No. 1 Ross Chastain
  26. No. 23 Bubba Wallace
  27. No. 48 Alex Bowman
  28. No. 2 Austin Cindric
  29. No. 42 John Hunter Nemechek
  30. No. 16 A.J. Allmendinger
  31. No. 14 Chase Briscoe
  32. No. 7 Corey LaJoie
  33. No. 22 Joey Logano
  34. No. 5 Kyle Larson
  35. No. 20 Christopher Bell
  36. No. 38 Todd Gilliland

Reddick romps through double-overtime for Michigan win

Certainly, the FireKeepers Casino 400 at Michigan International Speedway was not lacking in action or drama. 23XI Racing’s Tyler Reddick claimed his second victory of the season – seventh of his career – while the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series playoff …

Certainly, the FireKeepers Casino 400 at Michigan International Speedway was not lacking in action or drama. 23XI Racing’s Tyler Reddick claimed his second victory of the season — seventh of his career — while the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series playoff standings shifted dramatically yet again in Monday’s weather-delayed double-overtime finish to the race.

Reddick’s No. 45 Toyota pulled away from William Byron’s No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet on the second overtime restart — holding off Byron and Joe Gibbs Racing’s Ty Gibbs to claim the win by a slight 0.168s and break a nine-race winning streak at the historic two-mile track for Ford.

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“Just great teammate and a fantastic push from Ty Gibbs, the Toyota racing family tries to take care of each other,” said Reddick, who immediately dedicated his win to longtime family friend and late model racing legend Scott Bloomquist, who was killed in a plane accident this week.

“The last couple days have been tough, but this really helps. This win goes to him [Bloomquist] and his family and friends, and all that meant a lot to him. It’s always tough when someone you care about passes away.

“We did a really good job today,” he said of the win. “I think we were the last car on the lead lap starting stage three today so good effort for us.”

Byron, a three-race winner and the 2024 Daytona 500 champion, second-guessed the decision to start his Chevrolet alongside Reddick on the high-side of the front row on that final restart after starting on the bottom lane previously.

“I will re-live that restart and what lane to choose overnight for sure,” Byron said. “It seems like always as the leader you want to take the top, but I’ve gotten beat twice here by the bottom and I had the lead on the bottom barely over him.

“But he had a better car than us — he was a little bit faster. Second sucks, but really proud of the effort. I feel like we’ve been trying to put weeks together like this and this is a really good step.”

Richard Childress Racing’s Kyle Busch finished fourth and led 24 laps in the race, one of his better showings of the season. The two-time series champion still sits more than 100 points out of the playoff standings and is trying to extend a record 19-year winning streak in the series but Monday’s showing marks his second consecutive top-five finish – answering a fourth-place at Richmond last week.

Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing teammates, owner-driver Brad Keselowski and Chris Buescher were fifth and sixth place — the top finishing Fords. Keselowski was hoping to win at his home-state track for the first time in 28 starts there. For Buescher that sixth-place finish may have felt a little like a win after two days of dramatic ups and downs.

It improved his place in the championship standings to 15th out of the 16-drivers currently playoff eligible — now 16 points up on the cutoff line. Trackhouse Racing’s Ross Chastain moved into the 16th and final position — only a single point ahead of Reddick’s 23XI Racing’s Bubba Wallace.

Chastain, who brought out a caution flag in the first overtime, had been 12 points to the good inside the Playoff standings taking the first overtime green flag.

It was indicative of the non-stop action from Sunday’s green flag and red flags to Monday’s checkers. The race resumed Monday on lap 52 and so did the aggression with 16 different race leaders and 26 lead changes in all.

On Sunday, polesitter, Joe Gibbs Racing’s Denny Hamlin spun out while trying to pass Wallace for the lead early. His No. 11 JGR Toyota was largely undamaged despite a slide through the infield grass and he ultimately battled his way back up through the field Monday to secure an impressive ninth-place finish.

Hendrick Motorsports’ Kyle Larson, who led the NASCAR Cup Series championship points standings coming into the race, was sidelined early after triggering a seven-car accident on lap 116 after misjudging a pass on Wallace as well.

The defending Michigan winner Buescher, Chase Briscoe, Christopher Bell, Joey Logano and Todd Gilliland were all involved in the incident in varying degrees. Although Larson, Bell, Logano and Gilliland’s cars were sidelined, Buescher’s Mustang was able to continue with an assortment of challenges. His team called him in for two new tires on the final caution period and he was able to race back to that sixth-place finish.

Larson’s miscue had a major effect on the regular season championship with race winner Reddick now taking the lead by 10 points over Chase Elliott, who led laps but finished 15th.

Hamlin’s race recovery moves him into third place, 28 points back and Larson has dropped to fourth place, 32 points behind Reddick with only two races remaining to decide who will earn the regular season title and receive that all-important 15-point playoff bonus.

“Had an extremely fast car so hate I screwed that up for our team as well the others out there that got collected in it,” said Larson, driver of the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet. “Just trying to get what I could, get some stage points and just lost it.”

Rookie Zane Smith finished seventh, followed by Daniel Suarez, Hamlin and rookie Carson Hocevar.

The NASCAR Cup Series returns to competition in Saturday night’s Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway (7:30pm ET, NBC, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Buescher is the defending race winner.

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Strong second place at Indy keeps Reddick in the title hunt

Tyler Reddick was content to walk away from Indianapolis Motor Speedway with a solid points day after finishing second in the Brickyard 400. “Me and Kyle (Larson) were the first few cars on that alternate strategy,” Reddick said. “We had that issue …

Tyler Reddick was content to walk away from Indianapolis Motor Speedway with a solid points day after finishing second in the Brickyard 400.

“Me and Kyle (Larson) were the first few cars on that alternate strategy,” Reddick said. “We had that issue on pit road. I think he had some issue on pit road as well that put him back there. We just didn’t have anything to lose. A great effort by all of us; the car went through the field. Unfortunately, when Kyle got to me and passed me like he did, I wasn’t expecting it. It was really creative, and he continued to catch the rest of the field and pass cars.

“I wish I could’ve seen that one coming and maybe defend that better. It was a great way to make a pass. [Unfortunately it] means we bring home our Beast Unleashed Toyota Camry second, but good points day. Didn’t score as many as [Larson], but nonetheless, a fairly solid points day.”

Reddick didn’t have a shot of potentially challenging Larson during the last lap as a caution ended the race. The 23XI Racing driver got to the position a lap early on the restart, making the pass on Ryan Blaney going into Turn 2. He lined up third on the second overtime attempt.

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NASCAR threw the caution for Ryan Preece spinning on the backstretch after Larson took the white flag. There was time to throw the caution before the white flag, as Preece struggled and did not get his car moving because of a flat tire, which would have given Reddick another shot on a restart.

In the immediate aftermath of the finish, Reddick, who likely had not seen any replays, didn’t know the timing of when the caution was thrown. He laughed and said now he was mad after being told NASCAR could have thrown the caution to set up a third overtime attempt.

“You always have a shot with these restarts,” Reddick said. “It did seem like Turn 1 was getting pretty tricky but [Kyle and I] were even on laps on tires, and I felt pretty confident being on the outside of other cars. It all depends on how the launch goes in the restart zone; if I got a good push and had a nose ahead, I feel like we would have a shot at it. It is what it is. We’ll take our second place and chill for a couple of weeks.”

Reddick started from the pole Sunday and led a race-high 40 laps. He is 15 points behind Larson in the hunt for the regular-season championship.

Reddick claims Brickyard 400 pole

Tyler Reddick transferred his pace from NASCAR Cup Series practice into a pole win for Sunday’s Brickyard 400. Reddick took the top spot as the final driver in qualifying with a lap of 181.932 mph (49.469 seconds) around the Indianapolis Motor …

Tyler Reddick transferred his pace from NASCAR Cup Series practice into a pole win for Sunday’s Brickyard 400.

Reddick took the top spot as the final driver in qualifying with a lap of 181.932 mph (49.469 seconds) around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. It is Reddick’s eighth pole in the series, second of the season and first at Indianapolis.

Denny Hamlin will join Reddick, who drives one of the cars Hamlin owns, on the front row. Hamlin qualified second at 181.492mph.

Chase Elliott qualified third (181.803 mph), William Byron qualified fourth (180.155 mph), and Kyle Larson was fifth (181.298 mph). Ty Gibbs qualified sixth (180.043 mph) and Ryan Blaney took seventh (179.849 mph).

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Michael McDowell qualified eighth (178.898 mph), Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was ninth (173.859 mph) and John Hunter Nemechek rounded out the top 10 (178.462 mph). Nemechek matched his season-best qualifying effort from Daytona, which makes it the second time he’s advanced to the final round of qualifying.

Martin Truex Jr. qualified 14th and AJ Allmendinger was 15th. Bubba Wallace took 17th, Christopher Bell 18th and Chase Briscoe 20th. Brad Keselowski, the most recent oval winner in the starting lineup, qualified 26th.

Ross Chastain qualified 28th. Chastain enters Sunday’s race as the driver on the playoff grid bubble.

Jimmie Johnson qualified 33rd and Kyle Busch qualified 34th. Austin Cindric qualified 38th after hitting the wall in two different parts of the track during his run.

UP NEXT: The Brickyard 400 at 2:30 p.m. ET Sunday on NBC.

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NASCAR starting lineup for 2024 Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis

Check out the NASCAR Cup Series starting lineup for the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway this weekend!

Indianapolis Motor Speedway is next for the NASCAR Cup Series, and 23XI Racing will lead the field to the green flag. [autotag]Tyler Reddick[/autotag] won the pole for the Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis this weekend. Denny Hamlin will join Reddick on the front row for Sunday afternoon’s event. It is Reddick’s second pole position of the 2024 NASCAR season.

Chase Elliott and Willliam Byron will follow the two drivers on the second row. Most notably, Noah Gragson, Chris Buescher, Daniel Suarez, Brad Keselowski, Ross Chastain, Jimmie Johnson, Kyle Busch, Josh Berry, and Austin Cindric all qualified 20th or worse for Sunday’s event. This occurred as the track provided a tough challenge to competitors, with several drivers making contact with the wall.

The full starting lineup is available below.

Brickyard 400, NASCAR starting lineup:

  1. No. 45 Tyler Reddick
  2. No. 11 Denny Hamlin
  3. No. 9 Chase Elliott
  4. No. 24 William Byron
  5. No. 5 Kyle Larson
  6. No. 54 Ty Gibbs
  7. No. 12 Ryan Blaney
  8. No. 34 Michael McDowell
  9. No. 47 Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
  10. No. 42 John Hunter Nemechek
  11. No. 3 Austin Dillon
  12. No. 22 Joey Logano
  13. No. 48 Alex Bowman
  14. No. 19 Martin Truex Jr.
  15. No. 16 A.J. Allmendinger
  16. No. 21 Harrison Burton
  17. No. 23 Bubba Wallace
  18. No. 20 Christopher Bell
  19. No. 7 Corey LaJoie
  20. No. 14 Chase Briscoe
  21. No. 10 Noah Gragson
  22. No. 33 Ty Dillon
  23. No. 17 Chris Buescher
  24. No. 38 Todd Gilliland
  25. No. 99 Daniel Suarez
  26. No. 6 Brad Keselowski
  27. No. 71 Zane Smith
  28. No. 1 Ross Chastain
  29. No. 43 Erik Jones
  30. No. 77 Carson Hocevar
  31. No. 41 Ryan Preece
  32. No. 31 Daniel Hemric
  33. No. 84 Jimmie Johnson
  34. No. 8 Kyle Busch
  35. No. 51 Justin Haley
  36. No. 15 Cody Ware
  37. No. 4 Josh Berry
  38. No. 2 Austin Cindric
  39. No. 66 B.J. McLeod

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Reddick paces Brickyard 400 practice

Tyler Reddick was fastest Friday in NASCAR Cup Series practice as teams made their return to the oval at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Reddick topped the board at 182.582 mph (49.293 seconds). He was fastest over reigning series champion Ryan Blaney, …

Tyler Reddick was fastest Friday in NASCAR Cup Series practice as teams made their return to the oval at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Reddick topped the board at 182.582 mph (49.293 seconds). He was fastest over reigning series champion Ryan Blaney, who clocked in at 181.928 mph.

Denny Hamlin was third fastest (181.561 mph), Christopher Bell was fourth fastest (181.371 mph), and Alex Bowman (180.93 mph) completed the top five. Kyle Larson was sixth fastest in practice (180.774 mph).

Brad Keselowski was seventh fastest (180.654 mph) while his teammate Chris Buescher was eighth fastest (180.556 mph). William Byron was ninth fastest (180.527 mph) and Carson Hocevar rounded out the top 10 (180.52 mph).

Cup Series championship point leader Chase Elliott was 12th fastest in practice (180.058 mph).

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Kyle Busch, a two-time winner of the Brickyard 400, was 16th fastest in practice. Busch’s best lap was 179.824 mph.

Keselowski, Busch, and Jimmie Johnson are the only active winners from the Indianapolis oval in the field. Johnson was 21st fastest in practice.

NASCAR last ran on the oval in 2020. Kevin Harvick, who retired from full-time NASCAR competition after last season, won that event.

The 50-minute session was relatively uneventful. There was one caution for debris and Erik Jones had a single-car spin in the final seconds of practice. Jones spun off Turn 2 but did not hit anything.

There are 39 drivers entered at Indianapolis. Ty Dillon is in a third entry for Richard Childress Racing and B.J. McLeod is the MBM Motorsports entry.

Elliott ran the most laps in practice (36).

Reddick was also fastest in the best 10 consecutive lap average. It was Reddick over Larson, Hamlin, Keselowski, and Cindric.

UP NEXT: Cup Series qualifying at 1:05 p.m. ET Saturday.

RESULTS

Reddick focused forward after emotionally charged last few weeks

Tyler Reddick has finished no worse than third in the last three NASCAR Cup Series races, but with how hard he’s been on himself afterward, it might not feel that way. A week ago, Reddick hit the wall on the final lap in Chicago when he was chasing …

Tyler Reddick has finished no worse than third in the last three NASCAR Cup Series races, but with how hard he’s been on himself afterward, it might not feel that way.

A week ago, Reddick hit the wall on the final lap in Chicago when he was chasing down Alex Bowman. Reddick admitted afterward that he “screwed up” and made the “dumbest mistake.” He finished second.

A third-place finish the week before at Nashville Superspeedway was also disappointing to him. Reddick was in a good position on fuel and tires going into the fifth and final overtime when he couldn’t find a way around Joey Logano on the last lap. Afterward, Reddick said he “didn’t get the job done” and was clearly discouraged.

Statistically, it’s been a good two weeks. Emotionally, not as much for Reddick. But the 23XI Racing driver said Saturday he doesn’t carry those battles.

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“I think I move past it (pretty well), thankfully,” Reddick said at Pocono Raceway. “There are a number of negatives, and I chose to analyze those (but) I’d say by the time we’re done having our meetings on Monday, it’s in the rearview mirror, and moved on thinking about the positives from the weekend and thinking about what we have ahead of us.”

Fortunately, there is plenty ahead for Reddick and the No. 45 team. As the regular season winds down, Reddick has entered the picture for the regular-season championship as he moved to third in the point standings with his Chicago result, which was his sixth top-10 finish in the last seven races.

Reddick is 23 points out of the point lead with six races remaining. It goes without saying that Reddick is aware it won’t be easy to earn the regular-season title and the 15 additional playoff points. He is one of seven drivers less than 100 points behind leader Kyle Larson.

“It’s on my mind now,” Reddick said of the regular season champion battle. “It wasn’t certainly back in February, March, April — didn’t even cross my mind a single time. I didn’t know if we were going to be able to run those guys back down.

“We had kind of a messy start of the year — like we did last year — and here we are. We’ve closed the gap and we’re within striking distance.”

A victory at Talladega Superspeedway (April 21) has Reddick locked into the postseason. However, he has just eight playoff points.

Reddick was 12th in the standings after the season’s first three races.

Reddick leads Cup Series practice at Pocono after solo spin

Tyler Reddick spun Saturday during NASCAR Cup Series practice at Pocono Raceway, only to return later and set the fastest time. The 23XI Racing driver had a single-car incident at the exit of Turn 1 early in his practice group, but Reddick kept his …

Tyler Reddick spun Saturday during NASCAR Cup Series practice at Pocono Raceway, only to return later and set the fastest time.

The 23XI Racing driver had a single-car incident at the exit of Turn 1 early in his practice group, but Reddick kept his car off the wall and was able to drive back to his pit stall and the attention of his team.

Reddick’s fastest lap was 168.231mph (53.498s). He topped the board over William Byron’s 167.942mph lap.

Martin Truex Jr. was third fastest (167.942mph), Bubba Wallace was fourth (167.863mph) and Michael McDowell completed the top five (167.773mph).

Ty Gibbs was sixth (167.218mph); Austin Cindric, seventh (167.205mph); Kyle Larson, eighth (167.137mph); Daniel Suarez, ninth (167.016mph) and Carson Hocevar completed the top 10 (166.994mph).

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Larson, the championship point leader, also went for a single-car spin. The Hendrick Motorsports driver spun in Turn 2 and did not hit anything.

Reddick and Larson were the only incidents in practice. Denny Hamlin, the defending race winner, was 24th fastest. He also ran the most laps of any driver (21).

Martin Truex Jr. was the fastest in the best 10 consecutive lap average. It was Truex over Reddick, Cindric, Gibbs, and Hamlin.

There are 37 drivers entered in the Great American Getaway 400.

Reddick mystified by last-lap mistake

Tyler Reddick “screwed up” on the final lap of Sunday’s race at Chicago and threw away a chance at challenging for the race win. Reddick was closing on race leader Alex Bowman when he clipped the Turn 5 wall with his right front. He then came off …

Tyler Reddick “screwed up” on the final lap of Sunday’s race at Chicago and threw away a chance at challenging for the race win.

Reddick was closing on race leader Alex Bowman when he clipped the Turn 5 wall with his right front. He then came off the corner and brushed the wall with the left side of his 23XI Racing Toyota Camry. The mistakes allowed Bowman to stretch the lead back out as Reddick faded.

“I’m upset,” Reddick said of second place. “I was catching Alex by a large margin there. I don’t know — that puzzles me. I clearly just screwed up trying to stay in the dry groove, and I had more than enough room of the dry groove. I cut the wheel a little too hard — just not focused enough, I guess.

“I knew I was going to get to him, and the earlier I could get to him, the more options I would have, and it was going to get a little bit more slick off line beyond Turn 8. [I] just didn’t even give ourselves a shot to race him unfortunately. I hate it. Not what this Jordan Brand Toyota Camry is about and what this team is about. [We] just got to start capitalizing on these (races).”

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Reddick was 1.9 seconds behind Bowman at the white flag. He was 1.4 seconds behind when he clipped the Turn 5 wall.

“I got the opportunity to run him down,” Reddick said. “Just obviously couldn’t get the job done. A clean lap was all I had to do and couldn’t even do that.”

It was a late-race surge for Reddick, who drove to second in the final minutes of the race. Reddick was running 10th when the timed race restarted for the final time with less than five minutes on the clock, but he was on slick tires after the No. 45 team decided to go with the dry set before the end of the second stage. The track was drying enough that Reddick and crew chief Billy Scott thought it would be the right call.

“[We were] expecting it to be a close pace difference, and that’s how it looked like it was going to play out,” Scott said. “It just depended on how many people stayed on the wets and how big of a gap they built up with the guys on slicks trying to get through there.”

Reddick gained several positions as the clock ticked under three minutes when Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Martin Truex Jr. and Christopher Bell made contact off Turn 2. The rest were made up by using the slicks to his advantage — as Bowman continued on his wet weather tires.

“The last 10 [laps] entirely, there was a lot going on,” Reddick said. “The 20 (Bell) and the 54 (Gibbs) were obviously ahead of us most of the day and the situation just played out to where they got collected in other people’s nonsense. We were in a position to run down the 48 (Bowman), it was going to be really close, and had I not made the mistake – just crazy.

“[I] ran all day long and know where my limits are and here at the end, when it matters most, I made the dumbest mistake.”

Before the mistakes, Scott said, “By the numbers, we had time (to get there).”