[autotag]Tyler Reddick[/autotag] had a really good car at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, but it wasn’t enough. Reddick came up just short of Kyle Larson despite a late charge at the end of the event. The good thing for the 23XI Racing driver is that he displayed great speed at a track where he hadn’t finished in the top 5 spots in the NextGen car.
Reddick got out of the No. 45 car disappointed, and it was easy to tell that he was frustrated. In his interview, the 28-year-old driver talked about the closing laps and expressed frustration over the challenges throughout the day.
“It’s the name of the next generation game, right?” Reddick said. “You get the lead, you’ve got to hold on to it. Yeah, [Kyle Larson] did a really good job there of pretty much taking away every option I had to close the gap. Yeah, he seemed pretty good in the middle, and I was obviously really good on the bottom. He just never let me have it. I kept trying to run higher and higher and he was kind of running right in the middle of the racetrack there, was kind of pretty efficient to block both lanes.”
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“Every time I kind of got close, we’re running just wide open enough in Turn 1 and 2 that he could kind of defend pretty well. It’s frustrating. I feel like we were never up front really all day long until it got to the stage end. We had a really good Nasty Beast Toyota Camry and just stupid mistakes on pit road. Same shit, different year. It’s kind of frustrating. We’ll continue to work on it, but a good rebound for our team today.”
Reddick was frustrated with coming up short and his pit crew, which didn’t have a great day. However, NASCAR is a team sport, and Reddick understands that everyone needs to be perfect to win races in the Cup Series. Reddick came up just short at Las Vegas; however, the No. 45 team hopes for a near-perfect effort at Phoenix Raceway this weekend.
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