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My goodness,
Tyler Reddick with the ability transfer, and the win …
… And a shot at a championship for him and his workforce co-owned by and one of many two males he beat on the ultimate lap Sunday
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1. Tyler Reddick breaks hearts at Homestead
Reddick’s final-lap passes of Denny Hamlin (his workforce’s co-owner) and defending Cup Sequence champ Ryan Blaney was robust stuff.
He went “excessive, huge and good-looking,” as Barney Corridor used to say, to move Blaney within the high lane via Turns 3 and 4, then saved his proper foot gopher-deep down the entrance stretch to assert the Straight Discuss Wi-fi 400 and earn the automated berth within the “championship 4” who will go to Phoenix subsequent week for the title.
Reddick and final week’s winner, Joey Logano, can be a part of that last 4. If one of many different Spherical of 8 drivers wins subsequent week, he joins them. After that, or rather than that, it comes all the way down to factors. And right here they’re:
1. Tyler Reddick, Joey Logano (locked in as a consequence of wins the previous two weeks)
3. Christopher Bell (+29 above cutline)
4. William Byron (+7)
5. Kyle Larson (-7)
6. Denny Hamlin (-18)
7. Ryan Blaney (-38)
8. Chase Elliott (-43)
2. Michael Jordan: Tyler Reddick ‘drove his ass off!”
A restart with seven laps to go was the stuff of promotional departments. When it shook out, it seemed just like the race would come down to 2 males who, given their place within the playoff factors standings, in all probability wanted a win to advance to Phoenix with a shot.
It was Blaney and Hamlin, with Hamlin desperately trying to erase his standing as NASCAR’s best-ever with out a Cup Sequence championship.
But it surely was Reddick, within the No. 45 Toyota of 23XI Racing, whose possession workforce consists of Hamlin and Jordan, who discovered one other gear on the ultimate lap.
Michael Jordan’s 23XI workforce is formally via to the NASCAR Championship and can be one in every of 4 vehicles racing for the cup, pending post-race inspection.
“We’re combating for a championship!” Reddick shouted after exiting his automobile.
Jordan was exhibiting the kind of pleasure nobody has seen since he was celebrating NBA championships.
“The little child drove his ass off,” Jordan stated as he speed-walked down Pit Street towards Reddick’s automobile. “I’m pleased with him. We would have liked it.”
Upon reaching Reddick, he swallowed him in a bear hug.
“Good job, child,” he stated. “Rattling good job.”
Need the juicy a part of this? Reddick’s workforce, which incorporates Bubba Wallace as teammate, is one in every of two Cup Sequence at present in a authorized battle with NASCAR over the phrases of the team-charter agreements.
3. Up subsequent for NASCAR: Martinsville
For these with out keys to the championship trip at Phoenix, there’s another alternative, and whereas there’s not loads of room for error, there’s really not loads of room for something.
NASCAR’s three marquee divisions motor forward to the next-to-last race on the 2024 schedule, on the half-mile (or so) Martinsville Speedway in southern Virginia. The race schedule:
Friday: Vans at 6 p.m.
Saturday: Xfinity at 4 p.m.
Sunday: Cup at 2 p.m.
