For the first time since 2020, Toyota is celebrating a victory in the Daytona 500 with Tyler Reddick. The California-native drove a masterful final few turns, dodging multiple incidents to pick up his first win in the Great American Race. It is the first Daytona 500 win for 23XI Racing, as well. Co-owner Denny Hamlin now can lay claim to all four of Toyota\u2019s Daytona 500 victories \u2013 three as a driver (2016, 2019 and 2020) and now as an owner.<\/p>\n
23XI had a stellar day with all three of their full-time drivers \u2013 Reddick, Riley Herbst (eighth) and Bubba Wallace (10th) finishing in the top-10. Wallace also led the most laps in the race \u2013 40, with Chase Briscoe (23 laps led) and John Hunter Nemechek (19 laps led) also spending considerable time out front. Toyota led over half of the race, pacing for 103 total circuits.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Toyota has won the last three Crown Jewel races in NASCAR \u2013 the Brickyard 400 (Bubba Wallace), the Southern 500 (Chase Briscoe) and now the Daytona 500.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Toyota Post-Race Recap<\/p>\n
NASCAR Cup Series (NCS)<\/p>\n
Daytona International Speedway<\/p>\n
Race 1 of 36 \u2013 500 miles, 200 laps\u00a0<\/p>\n
TOYOTA FINISHING POSITIONS\u00a0<\/p>\n
1st, TYLER REDDICK\u00a0<\/p>\n
2nd,\u00a0Ricky Stenhouse Jr.*<\/p>\n
3rd,\u00a0Joey Logano*<\/p>\n
4th,\u00a0Chase Elliott*<\/p>\n
5th,\u00a0Brad Keselowski*<\/p>\n
8th, RILEY HERBST<\/p>\n
10th, BUBBA WALLACE<\/p>\n
21st, ERIK JONES\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
23rd, TY GIBBS\u00a0<\/p>\n
26th, JOHN HUNTER NEMECHEK\u00a0<\/p>\n
28th, COREY HEIM\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
29th, JIMMIE JOHNSON<\/p>\n
31st, DENNY HAMLIN<\/p>\n
35th, CHRISTOPHER BELL<\/p>\n
36th, CHASE BRISCOE<\/p>\n
*non-Toyota driver\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
TOYOTA QUOTES<\/p>\n
TYLER REDDICK, No. 45 Chumba Casino Toyota Camry XSE, 23XI Racing<\/p>\n
Finishing Position: 1st<\/p>\n
What are your emotions after winning the Daytona 500?<\/p>\n
\u201cI had that weird moment where I think everyone was too busy screaming and I was like, \u2018did we win?\u2019 Man, it\u2019s something \u2014 as a kid, I grew up watching the Daytona 500 with my family and just dreamed of being a NASCAR Cup Series driver one day. And, then obviously really wanted to win the 500 so I just \u2013 it takes a lot of work, it takes a lot of things to go the right way. We did it today.\u201d<\/p>\n
Can you talk about the last lap?<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, you know, I think we had that crash and got really split up there. I was three-wide and wasn\u2019t where I wanted to be and just everyone is kind of going for themselves out there and Riley Herbst, my teammate, picked me up and pushed me, got me back to those first two cars. From there, man, just tried to keep the momentum going in my favor. I wasn\u2019t going to push anybody and just got really fortunate. Riley went to the top of Chase (Elliott) that I was able to get by them before they got to the end.\u201d<\/p>\n
TYLER GIBBS, president, TRD U.S.A.<\/p>\n
Can you take me through that last lap?<\/p>\n
\u201cAbsolutely incredible. Without Riley (Herbst) and the teamwork that we had all day \u2013 just an incredible result. That was amazing all the way to the end. For all of the cars involved, I\u2019m glad that everybody is okay.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
How huge is this for TRD?<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is huge for us. You look at the way the points stack up, the way that it works with the championship format \u2013 for Tyler (Reddick) to start off with this many points, how steady he was a couple of years ago, this is exactly the way to start.\u201d<\/p>\n
At the end of the day, there is a Camry in victory lane.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love it. You\u2019ve seen the fuel mileage game played multiple times over different manufacturers depending on how pit strategy works out. For us today, we played it a little bit and then we went for it in the end. Just really good to see the speed in our Camrys.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Toyota PR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For the first time since 2020, Toyota is celebrating a victory in the Daytona 500 with Tyler Reddick.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,10660,925,77,19115,634,582,1702,721,1704,722,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-477658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-chase","11":"tag-daytona","12":"tag-international","13":"tag-jimmie-johnson","14":"tag-nascar","15":"tag-racing","16":"tag-ricky-stenhouse-jr","17":"tag-series","18":"tag-speed","19":"tag-speedway","20":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}