Kansas Speedway has turn into a playground for 23XI Racing since they expanded to a two-car operation in 2022, with the #45 specifically sweeping each dates that yr with Kurt Busch and Bubba Wallace. After ending ninth in Might, Tyler Reddick is the third driver to win on the 1.5-mile oval within the #45.
Reddick restarted fifth for additional time arrange after Chris Buescher suffered a blown tyre, and stalked the battle between Joey Logano and Erik Jones earlier than finishing a three-wide move for the lead coming to the white flag. The dramatic transfer shot Reddick to the highest whereas 23XI proprietor and Might winner Denny Hamlin adopted on the surface to complete second.
The win locks Reddick into the Spherical of 12 of the NASCAR Cup Sequence playoffs.
“Final yr was the heartbreaker. Two years in the past, we simply weren’t nice, and we went into Bristol and missed it by a pair, however final yr we had these wins. We come to this race a yr in the past and have a flat whereas main and fall out very early. We went into Bristol in a foul spot after which bought caught up in a wreck,” recalled Reddick.
“To have the ability to have quite a lot of factors scored—I’m positive even when we didn’t win right this moment and completed second or third, we’d have had quite a lot of factors to lean on going into Bristol, in order that was simply the purpose all alongside. I need to win races, however we don’t take to take the dangers within the first spherical. I feel as we maintain going alongside and we get additional in and we don’t have the factors to begin that a number of the vehicles on the very entrance of the leaderboard do, we’ll should get extra aggressive, but it surely was very good to get 5 playoff factors right this moment and achieve just a few extra as we go on to the following spherical.”
Hendrick Motorsports was the highest staff as Kyle Larson and Chase Elliott respectively led 99 and 47 laps whereas the previous received Stage #1, however each began additional again in additional time after pitting and have been unable to catch up. Stage #2 winner Brad Keselowski had an analogous destiny as he settled for ninth.
Whereas Reddick and Hamlin maximised their factors days, 23XI and Joe Gibbs Racing team-mates Wallace and Martin Truex Jr. are left in a precarious place getting into the Spherical of 16 finale at Bristol after struggling proper rear tyre failures. Truex’s tyre went down simply three laps into the race and despatched him into the flip three wall; after successful the common season championship, he’s getting ready to elimination as he trails Kevin Harvick for the twelfth within the standings by seven factors.
After ending second in Stage #1, Wallace’s day went down in smoke on lap 109. Whereas his staff was capable of restore the automotive in time to remain within the race, he ended up thre laps and and completed thirty-second. He’s nineteen factors under the minimize line going into Bristol, the place he has struggled with only one high ten in eight Cup begins.
“In hindsight, I ought to have simply pitted, however at that time limit, you simply don’t know if the automotive is admittedly simply tight or what’s happening,” commented Truex, “It’s an actual disgrace.”
A day after ending third within the Xfinity Sequence race, Sheldon Creed concluded his Cup début in twenty-ninth. The 2020 Truck Sequence champion was the thirteenth Stadium Tremendous Vehicles driver to compete within the Cup Sequence.
