23XI Racing\u2019s Tyler Reddick grinned and immediately conceded life is happily hectic these days as the superstar face of NASCAR. Making history by winning the first three races of the 2026 season, Reddick has earned the glory. Now he\u2019s learning to balance the extra demands his excellence has created with the desire to keep the winning rolling on.<\/p>\n
In many ways, the success doesn\u2019t make things easier \u2013 it creates new expectations and attention. But it\u2019s certainly the better option. He holds a 70-point advantage atop the championship standings. A victory in Sunday\u2019s race would mark his first on the one-mile Phoenix oval and with only a pair of top-five finishes (both third place efforts) in 12 previous series races here, it would be a huge sign of achievement. And carrying on with all the good vibes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re excited we\u2019ve won three races but we\u2019re not satisfied, we\u2019re still hungry,\u201d said Reddick, who drives the No. 45 23XI Toyota for the 23XI Racing team co-owned by legendary NBA star Michael Jordan and fellow competitor Denny Hamlin.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t feel like a superhero,\u201d he said laughing at a reporter\u2019s suggestion. \u201cFor me, it\u2019s just like we\u2019re doing the right things. We\u2019re taking a realistic approach to it, there\u2019s thought to it. This is what can happen when we prepare really good race cars and show up to the race track close, qualify good and run good, we really set ourselves up for success.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had that stretch there where we were \u2018right there\u2019 and it didn\u2019t happen last year. But I feel like it\u2019s rewarding for everyone on this 23XI team for it to be happening for the 45 the way it has this year. Everyone has worked hard to get over the hump. We\u2019re definitely not settling in and happy, \u2018we won three races and we\u2019re good now.\u2019 Everyone is very, very eager to carry this on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"23XI Racing\u2019s Tyler Reddick grinned and immediately conceded life is happily hectic these days as the superstar face…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,3932,634,582,721,82,926,9272],"class_list":["post-521498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-denny-hamlin","tag-nascar","tag-racing","tag-series","tag-sports","tag-toyota","tag-tyler-reddick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521498","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=521498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}