Tyler Reddick is racing for the 2024 title.
Reddick made an unimaginable last-lap go of Ryan Blaney to win his method into the the Championship 4. Reddick was third on the white flag lap on older tires than the 2 drivers forward of him and obtained previous Denny Hamlin for second in Turns 1 and a couple of. After which he ripped the fence in Turns 3 and 4 to get previous Blaney for the win.
TYLER REDDICK PASSES RYAN BLANEY IN THE FINAL CORNER!
HE WINS AT HOMESTEAD-MIAMI AND IS GOING TO THE NASCAR CHAMPIONSHIP!
“Little child drove his ass off, I’m happy with him,” Reddick’s 23XI Racing crew co-owner Michael Jordan stated after the race.
Blaney left the excessive line open for Reddick within the last two corners and clearly did not anticipate him to get as a lot of a run up there as he did. Blaney stated he thought he drove arduous into Flip 3 himself, however Reddick simply shot proper previous him.
“Had an amazing shot to win, didn’t have an excellent final lap,” Blaney, the 2023 Cup Sequence champion, stated.
Reddick was over a half-second quicker than Blaney on the ultimate lap and almost eight tenths of a second quicker than Hamlin.
Hamlin took the lead on the race’s last restart with six laps to go however Blaney obtained previous him on the penultimate lap. That introduced Reddick into play for the ultimate lap, as he was in a position to overcome the tire drawback.
Reddick’s probabilities for a win gone till Kyle Larson introduced out the warning with 13 laps to go when he tried to go Blaney for the lead. Blaney obtained pinned behind the lapped Austin Dillon down the backstretch after which used Dillon as a choose of types coming into Flip 3. Larson tried to separate the 2 and his automobile snapped unfastened and he spun.
Reddick had simply pitted earlier than Larson’s spin. He stayed out so long as doable on his earlier tank of gasoline within the hopes of getting a warning earlier than he pitted from the lead. He had simply unlapped himself on contemporary tires earlier than Larson’s spin and stayed out on observe whereas the leaders pitted for contemporary tires themselves beneath the warning.
Larson dropped to ninth on that last cycle of pit stops as his crew needed to make a pair vital changes to the automobile following his spin. He dropped to thirteenth over the ultimate two laps.
Larson’s spin was the second warning he precipitated on Sunday. The primary got here within the second stage when he minimize a tire and hit the wall.
Christopher Bell completed fourth forward of Chase Elliott in fifth.
1. Joey Logano (received at Las Vegas)
2. Tyler Reddick (received at Homestead)
3. Christopher Bell (+29 to Kyle Larson)
4. William Byron (+7)
5. Kyle Larson (-7 to Byron)
6. Denny Hamlin (-18)
7. Ryan Blaney (-38)
8. Chase Elliott (-43)
There are two spots within the last 4 at Phoenix obtainable heading into Martinsville subsequent Sunday (2 p.m. ET, NBC). Christopher Bell is not assured a spot within the Championship 4, however he is comfortably forward of Larson and everybody else. Even when a driver behind him within the standings received, it’d take a extremely dangerous day to maintain Bell from racing for the title in Phoenix.
Until Blaney or Elliott win the race, Byron, Larson and Hamlin look like racing for one spot. Larson received at Martinsville in 2023, Byron has two victories within the final three seasons on the half-mile observe and Hamlin has 5 wins at Martinsville over the course of his profession.
1. Tyler Reddick
2. Ryan Blaney
3. Denny Hamlin
4. Christopher Bell
5. Chase Elliott
6. William Byron
7. Alex Bowman
8. AJ Allmendinger
9. Carson Nevertheless
10. Ryan Preece
11. Josh Berry
12. Chase Briscoe
13. Kyle Larson
14. Michael McDowell
15. Chris Buescher
16. Daniel Suarez
17. Brad Keselowski
18. Bubba Wallace
19. Noah Gragson
20. Todd Gilliland
21. Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
22. Erik Jones
23. Martin Truex Jr.
24. Harrison Burton
25. Austin Dillon
26. John Hunter Nemechek
27. Austin Cindric
28. Joey Logano
29. Daniel Henric
30. Zane Smith
31. Kyle Busch
32. Kaz Grala
33. Ross Chastain
34. Justin Haley
35. Corey LaJoie
36. Ty Gibbs
37. Chad Finchum
38. JJ Yeley
