{"id":509367,"date":"2026-03-02T11:49:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/509367\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T11:49:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:49:23","slug":"what-drivers-said-after-record-third-straight-cup-win-by-tyler-reddick-for-michael-jordan-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/509367\/","title":{"rendered":"What Drivers Said after record third straight Cup win by Tyler Reddick for Michael Jordan team"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tyler Reddick \u2014 winner: \u201cIt means the world. Yeah, it\u2019s so fitting. We get going at the end there and I\u2019m leading and there\u2019s (Shane Van Gisbergen), the guy I\u2019ve been trying to beat for a while now. Just to be able to out last him there and hold on for the win is just incredible. Just really proud of this Toyota Camry, everyone at 23XI. We worked really hard. We did not like getting beat like that at road courses. It\u2019s one race, but it was so important, so fitting that we were able to get three in-a-row and make history. Just trying to remember everything that I knew was going to be important there at the end and just tried to minimize the mistakes. Shane, this is what he\u2019s so good at. He does not make mistakes. I certainly made a couple and just doing everything I could to just manage the gap and just stay away from him, if you know what I mean. If I let him get close enough, it was going to be probably hard to hold him off.\u201d<\/p>\n

Three tracks. Three wins. Tyler Reddick and 23XI Racing have made NASCAR history.@JamieLittleTV<\/a> talks with Michael Jordan after an incredible moment for the team. See you in Phoenix, MJ. \ud83d\ude0e\ud83c\udfc1 pic.twitter.com\/1GhqkrKnUQ<\/a><\/p>\n

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Michael Jordan \u2014 winning team owner: \u201cIt\u2019s time for change. Time for change, and the guys feel the same thing. Tyler came in with the most pressure, I guess. Everybody expected him or he had a chance to win three in a row, and that\u2019s the hardest one to win. He kept to his strategy, and man, the guys put together a great car. I think (crew chief) Billy (Scott) did an unbelievable job in calling the game, calling the race, and Tyler did a good job. He beat some good competition. You see SVG coming back there, you get a little nervous, but I think he had him covered pretty much the whole day. I\u2019m proud of the team that we\u2019ve put together. Denny, I\u2019m pretty sure is the same way. He feels the same way I do. I think a lot of credit goes to him because I think he\u2019s the mastermind behind finding Tyler and putting together Billy Scott. Look, I just put up the money. I\u2019m just a competitor. But I think Denny has done an unbelievable job in terms of helping build this team, and I think the team has done a good job of taking on leadership and going out and winning. That\u2019s what it\u2019s about, winning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shane van Gisbergen \u2014 second: \u201cIt\u2019s weird to be disappointed with second, but this series is just at a high level. We got our Chevy at lot better than yesterday, but just following Tyler, his driving was immaculate and his car was very good, too. (We just needed) little bit of everything. We lacked a little bit of turn and a little bit of drive. Tyler (Reddick, race winner) was just amazing. The way he was driving was really good and his car was good. We just didn\u2019t quite have enough, but it was a great points day for this No. 97 Chevrolet team, which is what we need for getting into the Chase. It was still an amazing result, but you\u2019re always disappointed with second when the expectations are so high. But overall, it was a really good day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christopher Bell \u2014 third: \u201cWe got really fortunate with the strategy. They dropped the green flag and they had a great start and I\u2019m like ok, we are going to have something and it just went away. It got tight and it got loose and I\u2019m sliding around and the next thing I know I\u2019m in 12th. We were just super aggressive on strategy jumping the stages keeping out track position the best that we could. We gambled making an extra pit stop there in the third stage and it got us a good finish out of it, but clearly I wasn\u2019t going to run with the top guys in our Camry. I got that great restart on new tires, and I\u2019m like, I\u2019m in position here, baby, we\u2019re going to do this. Just sold out. All race long whenever I was on equal tires with guys I was falling backwards. So strategy worked out. Super thankful that Adam Stevens called a really good race, got us on offense, got me a tire advantage over the field, and then I was able to salvage a good finish out of it. Yeah, it was an off road course race for us. Normally we\u2019re stronger than that and got saved by some newer tires.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tyler Reddick became the first driver in NASCAR Cup Series history to win the first three races of the season with a victory Sunday at the Circuit of Americas.<\/p>\n

Ty Gibbs \u2014 fourth: \u201cIt was really great. I had a great Toyota Camry. They helped me out so much today. Had a lot of fun, and we passed a lot of cars, obviously. Tyler (Allen, crew chief) and the boys did a great job on the strategy. I didn\u2019t really know what was going on because we pitted and I was in last, and then we went back up to the front, and it just was so much fun. It gets kind of hectic. It kind of feels like Richmond with the pit cycles and everything at the end. Just stayed at it, and I was up at the front at the end and just kept digging just didn\u2019t have enough time. But felt really good. Thank you to everybody that helps me out with my career, and thank you to the man above and we\u2019ll keep going and keep racing.<\/p>\n

Michael McDowell \u2014 fifth: \u201cOverall, the No. 71 Chevrolet was good. We didn\u2019t need that last caution. We were running long there. I don\u2019t know how the math would have worked out, but I think we would have had a good shot of having better tires over everyone else at the end, so that caution really hurt us. I think we restarted 12th or 13th, so to get back up into the top-five is a solid day for this team. But we\u2019re not looking for solid days, we\u2019re looking for wins. It\u2019s definitely a step in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kyle Larson \u2014 sixth: \u201cThankfully, I had enough fluids in me. I started feeling progressively better as the race went on with just dumping water on me, putting ice on my chest and drinking a lot of fluids. I felt good there at the end, but I was hot early in the race. I was getting nervous. But I think it kind of cooled down outside too, which helped. All-in-all, it was a great day for this No. 5 Chevrolet team. It was good to get our first top-10 finish of the season, and hopefully we can just build off of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

AJ Allmendinger \u2014 ninth: \u201cI felt, overall, it was a really good day in terms of execution. We had planned to go for points and run out both stages, and I felt like we got as many points as we could there through the stages. We executed well on pit stops and everything that goes with that, had a good restart, and it was really good to get back into the top-10 (9th-place) for a race result as well. So yeah, overall, I\u2019m really happy with the points day. We fought being a little too loose. I thought the balance was decent, but we were just a bit too loose. Overall, I think there are things we can improve with the car, but it wasn\u2019t too bad for what we had. So overall, I\u2019m happy with it. We know we need to make improvements for the next road course, but I feel like we maximized our plan and did everything we could to get the best result.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kyle Busch \u2014 12th: \u201cThe entire No. 8 Chevrolet team battled all day here at Circuit of The Americas. We started deep in the field and were able to make the needed adjustments to drive inside the Top 15. I\u2019m proud of everyone\u2019s efforts today and now we\u2019ll turn our attention West as we head to Phoenix next weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n

Connor Zilisch \u2014 14th: \u201cOur No. 88 Chevrolet was really fast all day. We were putting ourselves in a spot there at the end at that last caution to have a chance to go win the race and got wrecked again in turn one. I don\u2019t know if I need to do something different, but it was just one of those days. It was good to drive up through the field again. As a racecar driver, I\u2019m not satisfied, but I proved that I could do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ty Dillon \u2014 16th: \u201cIt was a great weekend for our No. 10 Chevrolet team. We had no thrills, which is what we need. I think when we execute, we are a great team and we just keep getting better. We had that kind of a day here today. We had no mistakes on pit road or on-track, and we came home with a 16th-place finish. Just very proud of this team. Our goal was to cash-in at least 20 points. That hasn\u2019t been our strong suit, but we did that. We\u2019ll roll onto some track where we have some good finishes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jesse Love \u2014 27th: \u201cWe ended up with some tow link damage today that affected our race, but overall the No. 33 Chevrolet was pretty good. We got our handling better throughout the day and even though we made gains at it, we never got it exactly where I wanted it to be. All of the pieces were there today but we never put them together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan Blaney \u2014 eighth: \u201cI just lost grip. I don\u2019t know. I just kind of lost grip and lost touch with Shane and Tyler. Yeah, it was weird. I wasn\u2019t really pushing hard like after the green flag pit stop with Tyler, knowing it was going to be a longer run, no caution or not. They [the tire] didn\u2019t really fire off very good, and I stayed in touch with those guys for maybe five laps, and they just kind of started to slowly lose and then really fall off the cliff. Overall good weekend. I hate that we didn\u2019t finish top three like I thought we were, but it\u2019s hard to complain about it. We don\u2019t have a great track record here, so we put a solid weekend together, and hopefully build on something.\u201d<\/p>\n

Austin Dillon \u2014 19th: \u201cThis No. 3 team just never gives up, man. We had to work hard for that one today. Things kept putting us in the back and we would drive forward. I flat-spotted a tire in the opening laps which affected the balance of ourChevrolet in Stage 1. We made a good pit call to gain track position and showed the pace that our car had in Stage 2. Unfortunately, a bolt came loose in our shifter handle which put us behind to start the last stage. We kept chipping away at it and then got behind again with contact on pit road. That\u2019s just the way the cookie crumbles sometimes. Proud of the effort.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brad Keselowski \u2014 20th: \u201cWe weren\u2019t as fast as we wanted to be so it turned into a don\u2019t beat yourself day. Glad it\u2019s over. Glad we were able to get something decent out of it. Not the day we wanted to have in the Ford Mustang, but we have something we can move forward with, and I\u2019m trying to appreciate that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chase Briscoe \u2014 37th: \u201cSomething in the transaxle I guess broke coming out of the corner. Went to shift and it was like I was in neutral and it was trying to spin the one side and not the other. It\u2019s really unfortunate, felt like we were good enough to win truthfully, top five car pretty easily. Just frustrating, it will obviously set us back points wise and next week. But Phoenix has been a really good track for us so we will see what we can do.\u201d<\/p>\n