Tag: Tyler Reddick

With race-ending caution, Reddick falls short on dirt once again

Tyler Reddick paused a post-race interview to go stop Christopher Bell before the latter made his way to victory lane at Bristol Motor Speedway, wanting to congratulate Bell on his victory and also lament what could have been had Sunday’s race run …

Tyler Reddick paused a post-race interview to go stop Christopher Bell before the latter made his way to victory lane at Bristol Motor Speedway, wanting to congratulate Bell on his victory and also lament what could have been had Sunday’s race run to completion.

“Wish we would have had that extra half lap,” Reddick said of their conversation. “Me and him both didn’t know how it was really going to end.”

Reddick finished second to Bell in the Food City Dirt Race, his chance at taking a shot at the win stymied when the caution flew on the final lap. The two Toyota drivers were each dominant throughout the night, with Bell leading the final 100 laps.

But Reddick, running up against the fence, had closed the gap at the white flag.

“It was like having some PTSD there but reversed,” he chuckled.

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A year ago in the dirt race, Reddick was the one being chased on the final lap. Chase Briscoe ended up taking them both out in Turn 3 – handing the win to Kyle Busch – when he attempted a slide job that went wrong.

“I feel like Christopher probably would have done a better job defending it than I did last year,” Reddick said. “But we raced really, really hard there at the end. When (Ryan) Blaney spun, I was pretty convinced the caution was going to come out; I kind of checked up, he did too, and he got back going better than I did and got a gap. I just needed to close the gap and didn’t.”

Blaney was spun off the race’s final restart with eight laps to go. Somehow the field avoided Blaney, who was running inside the top five, and the caution never flew.

With a smile, Bell said Reddick told him that, “It was going to be interesting if the yellow flag didn’t come out.”

Did Reddick have a move ready had the final lap gone the distance?

“I don’t know if it’d been a good one,” he said. “I honestly think (Bell) would have defended it. I don’t know if he knew the caution was out, so that’s why he went to the bottom, or if that was going to be his defensive line, which — if you’re in his situation — that was the move to make.

“We’ll never really know, but I was going to go for it, for sure.”

Reddick earned 13 points in the stages, including winning the second stage. He led 69 of the race’s 250 laps.

Reddick outbrakes the field for first win with 23XI at COTA

Tyler Reddick prevailed in three overtime restarts to claim his first trophy of the year – and first with his new team, 23XI Racing – with a 1.411s victory over two-time series champion Kyle Busch in the EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix, the NASCAR …

Tyler Reddick prevailed in three overtime restarts to claim his first trophy of the year – and first with his new team, 23XI Racing — with a 1.411s victory over two-time series champion Kyle Busch in the EchoPark Automotive Grand Prix, the NASCAR Cup Series’ first road course race of the season.

It was a field of international champions and NASCAR’s very best at the Circuit of The Americas course, but for most of the race the outcome looked to be decided in a good ole Texas duel between the two fastest cars all weekend driven by Reddick and Hendrick Motorsports’ William Byron. The pair exchanged the lead, lap after exciting lap for most of the afternoon.

On the final two-lap restart, Reddick was able to put his No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota out front exiting Turn 1 — a tight left-hander — and power forward to the lead, while Busch and third-place finisher Alex Bowman, fourth-place finisher – and defending race winner — Ross Chastain and fifth-place Byron fought door-to-door, bumper-to-bumper as they chased after him.

“I’ve been wanting to win here in a Cup car for a long time,” the 27-year-old Californian Reddick said, now having four NASCAR Cup Series wins, but noted this was his first as a Toyota driver and with his 23XI Racing Team – co-owned by fellow competitor Denny Hamlin and NBA superstar Michael Jordan.

“It means the world,” said Reddick, who sat down on the track and leaned against his car with a bag of ice to cool down on the typically Texas-hot afternoon. “This whole 23XI team has been working hard all winter long to make the road course program better and was extremely motivated to come in here and improve performance. Just so proud of this Monster Energy team and TRD. All the resources they’ve put in to turn around the road course program means a lot.”

As often happens late in a road course race, patience lags and urgency increases. That was certainly the case Sunday with three different overtime restarts deciding the outcome. Reddick and Byron’s No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet combined to lead 69 of the race’s 75 laps with Reddick out front a race-best 41 of those, most of them after hard-fought challenges and back-and-forth corner after corner with polesitter Byron.

“It feels good to get a top five, but we had a top-two race car really with the No. 45. He was really better than everybody, but I thought we were a close second,” said Byron, a two-race winner already in 2023, whose fifth-place finish at COTA was his career best on a road course. “We’ll keep building on it.”

Busch’s runner-up effort was an impressive comeback. He had been mid-pack for most of the afternoon but gambled on fuel strategy to move forward during some late race cautions.

“Even if we were on equal tires, they were lights out,” said Busch, driver of the No. 8 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet.

“Overall, for as much effort as we put into coming here and focusing on this place and all the testing we did in the offseason, we’re coming out of here with a good finish. Tyler’s obviously a really good road course racer.”

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In addition to the NASCAR stars, the field included four big names from other racing genres including IMSA champion Jordan Taylor, who drove the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet for injured former COTA winner Chase Elliott; a pair of former Formula One champions in Jenson Button and Kimi Raikkonen and popular IndyCar Series regular Conor Daly.

Among these four, Button – the 2009 Formula One World Champion – claimed the top finishing position, 18th in the No. 15 Rick Ware Racing Ford. Taylor, a two-time winner at COTA in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship finished 24th but made a huge impression in his debut after qualifying fourth.

Raikkonen, the 2007 F1 World Champion from Finland, finished 29th but ran as high as fourth place late in the race. Daly only got 16 laps into the race before his team had to take his No. 50 The Money Team Racing Chevrolet behind the wall for extended repairs. He finished 36th.

Seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson didn’t even get a full lap of green flag racing in only his second start of the 2023 season. The owner-driver of the No. 84 Legacy Motor Club Chevrolet was collected in a multi-car accident that eliminated his car and left him 38th in the standings.

Team Penske’s Austin Cindric, 2023 Daytona 500 winner Ricky Stenhouse Jr., RFK Racing’s Chris Buescher, Joe Gibbs Racing’s Ty Gibbs and Front Row Motorsports’ Todd Gilliland rounded out the top 10.

Chastain takes over the championship lead by 19 points over Busch. Ty Gibbs, who finished ninth, continues to lead the Sunoco Rookie of the Year points standings.

The NASCAR Cup Series returns to competition next Sunday in the Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond (Va.) Raceway (3:30 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

RESULTS

Reddick leads the way in COTA NASCAR Cup practice

Tyler Reddick was fastest in the lone NASCAR Cup Series practice session held Friday at Circuit of The Americas with a lap of 92.989mph (2m12.016s). Reddick won on two road courses last season at Road America and Indianapolis. That P1 feeling …

Tyler Reddick was fastest in the lone NASCAR Cup Series practice session held Friday at Circuit of The Americas with a lap of 92.989mph (2m12.016s).

Reddick won on two road courses last season at Road America and Indianapolis.

Kyle Larson, another road course winner, was second fastest in COTA practice, clocking in at 92.618 mph.

Ross Chastain was third fastest in practice at 92.52 mph. Chastain started the weekend off by tossing a watermelon off the COTA Tower as the defending race winner. It was Chastain’s first career win in the Cup Series.

Kyle Busch was fourth fastest at 92.498 mph and Daniel Suarez was fifth fastest at 92.461 mph.

Michael McDowell was sixth fastest at 92.458 mph, Austin Cindric was seventh fastest at 92.441 mph, and Bubba Wallace was eighth fastest at 92.433 mph. Joey Logano was ninth fastest at 92.407 mph and Jordan Taylor was 10th fastest at 92.404 mph. Taylor is driving the No. 9 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports this weekend as Chase Elliott continues to recover from a snowboarding accident.

It was something of a slow start for the other road racing guest stars, though. Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button was 28th fastest in practice. Button, driving the No. 15 for Rick Ware Racing, ran a fast lap of 91.758 mph. Fellow F1 champ Kimi Raikkonen, making his second start with Trackhouse Racing, was 32nd fastest at 91.388 mph.

Back in the No. 84 for Legacy Motor Club, Jimmie Johnson was 34th fastest in practice. Johnson clocked in at 91.072 mph.

There were no major incidents in practice.

The extended practice was allotted as teams work with the new aero package being used on select short tracks and road courses this season, and COTA is the first road course race of the season.

RESULTS

Sick-feeling Reddick still manages top-five finish at Atlanta

Tyler Reddick pulled off a top-five finish in Sunday’s race at Atlanta Motor Speedway on a day when it looked iffy that he’d even get behind the wheel. So under the weather was Reddick before the race, 23XI Racing fitted John Hunter Nemechek to the …

Tyler Reddick pulled off a top-five finish in Sunday’s race at Atlanta Motor Speedway on a day when it looked iffy that he’d even get behind the wheel.

So under the weather was Reddick before the race, 23XI Racing fitted John Hunter Nemechek to the No. 45 Toyota. Nemechek was suited up and on the pit box all afternoon, ready to go if he needed to relieve Reddick.

Not only did Reddick make the race’s start, but he also went the distance in the 400-mile event without issue and was in contention for the race win. He ran inside the top three through the final laps and crossed under the white flag in fourth position before returning to a fifth-place result.

“I feel all right,” Reddick said afterward. “I picked a good time to kind of get over whatever was going on. Made it through the race; don’t feel too bad. I wish we would have finished better than fifth. I definitely wasn’t my best out there today, mentally. I made a few poor decisions, but we were thankfully able to bring the car home fifth.”

Reddick earned points in the second stage and kept his car in one piece. Running as high as second as the race wound down, he led the way in the outside lane as Brad Keselowski tried to keep the field at bay by moving from the inside to the outside lane.

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The race for the win came down to who made the right move at the right time. Joey Logano prevailed while Reddick was left lamenting what could have been if he was in a better state.

“Oh, yeah, every lap was an opportunity for sure,” the 23XI driver said. “I don’t know — I was just trying to think what the right time to make the move was, and I was trying to do it where me, Denny (Hamlin), and Christopher (Bell) could take advantage of the momentum.

“I just waited too long and put Christopher and Denny in a spot where they were ready to go before I was. So I have to work on that going forward.”

Atlanta was another much-needed result for Reddick and the team, however. After back-to-back DNFs to start the season, Reddick has made the finish in the last three races, and the performance and results are improving, helping them climb out of an early championship point standings hole.

Reddick has been seeking normal race weekends after a rough start. Aside from poor finishes, the team didn’t get on track before the race at Las Vegas because of an engine issue before practice and qualifying. They then pulled off a top-five result in Phoenix and did so again Sunday.

“Well, this weekend wasn’t very normal for me, I’m not going to lie,” he joked about his physical condition. “Yeah, I definitely could have made a lot better decisions on the racetrack, but we’ll take it. A fifth place isn’t bad.”

Kurt Busch is stepping away from full-time NASCAR, and Tyler Reddick will replace him at 23XI Racing

“I will be stepping away from full-time NASCAR Cup Series competition in 2023,” Kurt Busch announced Saturday.

Kurt Busch is stepping away from full-time NASCAR competition next season as he continues to recover from a head injury he suffered this summer behind the wheel of the No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota.

The 44-year-old driver — a veteran of the sport after 22 full-time seasons in the Cup Series that included winning the 2004 championship — announced Saturday that he’s stepping away from full-time NASCAR competition in 2023 to focus on his recovery and his long-term health. He did not explicitly say he’s retiring.

Busch has been sidelined since July 23 after he crashed during a qualifying round at Pocono Raceway. He subsequently began experiencing concussion-like symptoms and has yet to be cleared to compete. His last race was at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on July 17, the weekend before his Pocono crash.

In a statement on Twitter, Busch said:

“The doctors have come to the conclusion that it is best for me to ‘shut it down’ for this season. Even though I have made solid gains since I have been working with top specialists, and the team at Toyota Performance Center, I’m still not 100% and I’m still not cleared to compete.

“As I continue to focus on my health and work towards being cleared, I will be stepping away from full-time NASCAR Cup Series competition in 2023.

“My long-term health is priority number one, and I don’t feel committing at this point to compete for a championship next year is in my best interest or the best interest of the team.”

Busch has been open in his head injury recovery, leading by example for other NASCAR drivers and the racing world. He’s provided occasional updates in his recovery.

“I know I’m not 100% in my ability to go out and race at the top level in the NASCAR Cup Series,” Busch added in his Twitter statement. “These are the best of the best drivers, and lately, I haven’t felt my best.”

In Busch’s absence, second-tier Xfinity Series driver Ty Gibbs first filled in behind the wheel of the No. 45 Toyota before switching car numbers with 23XI’s other full-time driver, Bubba Wallace, putting the more experienced racer in the 45 for the playoffs. Thanks to Busch’s May win at Kansas Speedway, the No. 45 car was competing for the owners’ championship but has since been eliminated.

23XI — which is co-owned by Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin — announced in July that Tyler Reddick would join the team in 2024, and Reddick was expected to stay with his current team, Richard Childress Racing, through 2023.

But now, Reddick will switch teams before the 2023 season to take over the No. 45 car for 23XI. Reddick won his first three Cup races (Road America, Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s road course and Texas Motor Speedway) in 2022, his third full-time season at the top of NASCAR.

In a statement on Twitter, 23XI said:

“With Kurt choosing to not race full-time next year, 23XI Racing announced today that upon reaching an agreement with Richard Childress Racing, Tyler Reddick will join 23XI in 2023 to drive the No. 45 Toyota Camry TRD. We look forward to competing against Tyler over the remaining four weeks of the season and look forward to having him join our team thereafter.”

Since Kurt Busch began full-time racing in the Cup Series in 2001, he’s accumulated 34 race wins — including the 2017 Daytona 500 — ranking him 25th on NASCAR’s all-time wins list. Throughout his full-time Cup career, he’s had just three seasons (2001, 2012, 2013) without at least one trip to Victory Lane.

In a statement, NASCAR president Steve Phelps said:

“For more than two decades, we have been privileged to watch Kurt Busch compete. He has proven himself a champion on the racetrack, but perhaps just as importantly, he has grown to become a true ambassador for the sport.  Kurt’s drive to improve the future of motorsports has set him apart. We are thrilled that he’ll remain in our sport as a leader and trusted resource. Kurt’s unparalleled passion for racing gives us hope that we will see him in a race car again.”

Busch’s most recent win was in the AdventHealth 400 at Kansas earlier this season when he absolutely dominated, leading a race-high of 116 of 267 total laps with an incredible Jordan Brand paint scheme to go with it.

“Next year my contributions to racing may look a little different, but I will continue to give my best to this sport. And, if I’m cleared, maybe you’ll see me at select races,” Busch added on Twitter.

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Tyler Reddick is joining 23XI for 2024 NASCAR season, and his current team had a stunningly blunt reaction

“…the timing of this announcement could not be any worse.”

Tyler Reddick was a surprise guest during a 23XI Racing/Toyota virtual press conference Tuesday, and it was for a surprising reason.

Once Reddick joined, Denny Hamlin, a co-owner of 23XI, and the team announced that Reddick will join the squad beginning in the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season. The upcoming contract is a multiyear deal, the team said.

Reddick is still set to race for his current team, Richard Childress Racing, for the remainder of the 2022 season, and presumably in 2023 as well, with Richard Childress previously noting that Reddick is under contract for 2023.

Hamlin and 23XI president Steve Lauletta highlighted the team — whose first Cup season was in 2021 — is on a five-year plan with the ultimate goal of winning a championship, and they believe Reddick will help get it there.

Whether Reddick’s addition to 23XI means the team will field a third car or if he’ll replace one of its two current drivers, Bubba Wallace and Kurt Busch, remains unclear. Lauletta said that’s one of several “unanswered questions” at this point.

“All we know is we wanted [Reddick],” Hamlin added.

But both Lauletta and Hamlin emphasized that the team plans for Wallace and Busch to be part of the organization for a long time.

From Reddick’s perspective, he won his first career Cup race over July 4th weekend at Road America in Wisconsin. But he said he was “extremely interested in 23XI” and likes what he’s seen from the team and where it hopes to go.

However, one party seemingly far from excited about this announcement is Richard Childress Racing. The team released this statement not long after Reddick’s announcement.

It reads:

“We’re proud of the success Tyler Reddick has found at Richard Childress Racing. We’re focused on winning a championship in 2022 and 2023, although the timing of this announcement could not be any worse.”

That last phrase isn’t one you typically hear from NASCAR teams — or any sports team for that matter.

When asked about RCR’s statement, Reddick said:

“It’s always a difficult thing whenever two partners or two pieces or our relationship is going to come to an end. But I feel like it gives everyone time to figure out what lies ahead. What is the next step? Where do we go from here?

“So, for me and in my opinion, I feel like it’s better to do it now than in the playoffs. It’s better to do it now. There’s no there’s no reason to kick the can down the road. We know what lies ahead, and we now all know what’s in front of us and what we need to do.”

Still, RCR’s blunt statement caught many in the racing world by surprise, and they shared their astonished reactions on Twitter:

10 delightful photos of Tyler Reddick celebrating his 1st NASCAR Cup Series win

Tyler Reddick won at Road America to become the NASCAR Cup Series’ fifth first-time winner in 2022.

“Finally!!” is probably one of the many thoughts that crossed Tyler Reddick’s mind after he won the Kwik Trip 250 — his first career Cup Series victory — on Sunday at Road America in Wisconsin.

For Reddick, this was a long time coming. Since his first full-time season at NASCAR’s highest in 2020, the No. 8 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet driver had accumulated five runner-up finishes — including two this season in the Bristol Motor Speedway dirt race and at Darlington Raceway.

He was due for his first checkered flag one of these races, and Sunday, he did it by getting the best of Chase Elliott, who finished second.

“It’s not just a huge sense of relief for me,” Reddick said afterward. “It’s a huge sense of relief for this entire team, for RCR, because the effort and the time and how close we’ve been most of the year and to not get it done is very tough. But going through tough times makes tough people get through the tough times, and we were able to do that today and persevere and come out on top.”

Reddick — who’s now the fifth first-time winner of the 2022 season — is generally a delightful person, so, of course, his celebratory moments were filled with what looked like wholesome joy. Here are 10 of his best celebration photos (plus his burnout) from Road America.

Chase Briscoe apologized to Tyler Reddick after heartbreaking end to NASCAR’s Bristol dirt race

Sportsmanship you love to see.

You’ve gotta feel for Tyler Reddick.

During NASCAR’s dirt race at Bristol Motor Speedway on Sunday, the No. 8 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet driver led a race-high of 99 laps — 99 of the final 100 laps to be exact — and looked poised to grab his first career Cup Series win.

But wins don’t come easy, and Reddick will have to wait for his first checkered flag.

Reddick would have had a lot of reasons to be furious with Chase Briscoe after the pair made contact on the last lap, costing both of them a shot at the win. But instead of throwing punches, the two shared a perfect moment of sportsmanship, including an apology from Briscoe.

On the final lap of Sunday’s Food City Dirt Race, Reddick was out front on the .533-mile Tennessee short track, which was temporarily converted to dirt. Briscoe in the No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford was right behind him, looking for the perfect opportunity to make a move with Kyle Busch in the No. 18 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota running third.

Going into the final pair of turns before the finish line, Briscoe went to the inside of Reddick to try and make the pass for the win. But the back of the No. 14 car slid up the track and made contact with Reddick, forcing both cars farther up before eventually spinning out.

Although Reddick was able to regain control and get back on the track, Busch flew by him to take the checkered flag, edging out Reddick by 0.330 seconds.

So, again, it’s hard not to feel bad for Reddick, who was oh-so-close to his first victory. He told FOX Sports afterward:

“I shouldn’t have let him get that close. He ran me back down, worked really hard to do that. I mean, you’re racing on dirt, going for the move on the final corner. It’s everything that, as a driver, you hope to battle for in his situation and made it really exciting for the fans.

“So it does suck, but we were able to finish second still. And I’m being honest: I should have done a better job and pulled away so he wasn’t in range to try to make that move. That’s how I look at it.”

Briscoe was among those feeling badly about the situation and said: “That was my fault, 100 percent. I hate it for Tyler. He’s a good friend of mine.”

So after the race, as Reddick finished up his interview with FOX Sports, Briscoe apologized. They exchanged some nice words, shook hands and smiled.

Briscoe: I was going to spin out, I think, either way. I was like, ‘Oh, please don’t hit him with the right rear! Please don’t hit with the right rear.’ And I saw it. But I’m sorry. I just wanted to let you know.

Reddick: You did a hell of a job running me down.

Briscoe: I kept trying. I was driving it so hard. I couldn’t run it any harder.

Reddick: It’s all good.

Briscoe: I’m sorry. I wish you would have won.

Reddick: I needed to drive away. I let you get close, so that’s on me.

Briscoe: That’s all right. I just wanted to apologize.

Reddick: It’s all good.

Briscoe: Anyway, that was fun though.

Reddick: Until next time.

Until next time, indeed.

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6 bold predictions for the 2022 Daytona 500 and NASCAR Cup Series season

Which NASCAR drivers will have breakout seasons or continue winning in 2022?

Predicting the future with perfect precision isn’t exactly a talent we here at For The Win possess. But that’s never stopped us from trying to make some solid predictions, and the 2022 NASCAR Cup Series season is no exception.

NASCAR has a lot going on this season, from the debut of the new Next Gen car to big-name drivers switching teams to new (or new-ish) tracks on the schedule. And the 36-race season kicks off Sunday with the Daytona 500 (2:30 p.m. ET, FOX) at Daytona International Speedway’s 2.5-mile track.

So ahead of that, we’re here with some big and bold predictions about the most anticipated race of the year, plus the rest of the nine-month season.

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Tyler Reddick and his team were NASCAR’s real Daytona winners after finishing with this mangled car

And Tyler Reddick qualified for the NASCAR playoffs in this thing.

Welcome to FTW’s NASCAR Feud of the Week, where we provide a detailed breakdown of the latest absurd, funny and sometimes legitimate controversies and issues within the racing world.

Our last NASCAR Feud of the Week of the 2021 regular season is an incredible and goofy one with a really clear winner.

The regular season ended Saturday night with Ryan Blaney winning the Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona International Speedway, and the 16-driver playoff field was set. Now, after a typically chaotic and unpredictable Daytona race, we could talk about how Kurt Busch made contact with Daniel Suárez and triggered a massive wreck, or Bubba Wallace’s annoyance with his Toyota teammates, or how several of the Rick Ware Racing drivers wrecked with each other.

Instead, however, let’s talk about the absolute beating one car took at Daytona in a feud of Tyler Reddick and the No. 8 team versus Daytona International Speedway.

By the time the race ended, Reddick’s car was a mess, especially after being involved in a wreck with about 15 laps to go in the race’s scheduled distance. The wreck left Reddick and the No. 8 car smoking and without a functioning oil cooler, per NBC Sports.

But the team pushed on and made some miraculous repairs to get the car back on track and up to speed, as Reddick raced for the lone playoff spot remaining at that point.

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After another late wreck — which didn’t involve Reddick toward the back of the field after the repairs — sent the race into overtime, the No. 8 driver pulled off some magic moves. On the last lap of overtime with Blaney out front, the field behind him started wrecking in a massive way, but somehow Reddick missed most of it before getting dinged by Justin Haley in the No. 77 Chevrolet.

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Not only did Reddick manage to avoid getting taken out in the last-lap wreck, but he also finished fifth and earned his first playoff berth. Amazingly, this is the car he did it with.

LOOK AT THIS DISASTER:

Both ends of the car are destroyed, there’s grass in the grille, the nose is dented and this thing was a mess. But Reddick made the most of it and qualified for the playoffs, which begin Sunday with the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway.

“It feels incredible,” Reddick told NBC Sports after the finish. “But I’m not going to lie to you, my emotions were shot as soon as we took the green on the last green-white-checkered. I couldn’t believe we finished seventh. The getting through that last crash coming to the line, it was a lot, I’m not going to lie. …

“What a roller coaster it is to be on the [playoff] bubble going into Daytona and running into the back of somebody and have all the issues we did at the end there. Almost felt helpless there, but we didn’t give up, and we fought through it.”

We don’t often have a winner of the NASCAR Feud of the Week, but when it comes to Reddick and the No. 8 team versus Daytona, the Richard Childress Racing team clearly won big.

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