{"id":560435,"date":"2026-03-25T20:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560435\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T20:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T20:04:14","slug":"nascars-tyler-reddick-praises-inspiring-michael-jordan-in-video-such-a-competitive-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/560435\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR&#8217;s Tyler Reddick Praises &#8216;Inspiring&#8217; Michael Jordan in Video, &#8216;Such a Competitive Person&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Tyler Reddick has gotten off to a strong start to the 2026 NASCAR season while driving for Michael Jordan&#8217;s 23XI Racing, recently discussing the NBA legend&#8217;s competitive nature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;Everyone got to see it in basketball,&#8221; Reddick said during a Wednesday appearance on the Pat McAfee Show (0:41 mark). &#8220;We&#8217;re all getting to see it now in NASCAR. But, he&#8217;s such a competitive person in every aspect of life that it&#8217;s truly inspiring, honestly. I hope as I get older, and who knows, maybe when I get done with racing I can continue to be as competitive as he&#8217;s been his whole life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Reddick is coming off a victory at Darlington Raceway on Sunday, marking his fourth win of the 2026 season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">He previously won the first three races of the season, becoming the <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nascar.com\/news-media\/2026\/03\/01\/cup-series-circuit-of-the-americas-recap-results-2026-tyler-reddick\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">first driver<\/a> in NASCAR history to do so. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">With Reddick&#8217;s latest victory, he\u00a0joined NASCAR Hall of Famers Dale Earnhardt and Bill Elliott as the only Cup drivers to win four of the first six races of the year, per the <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nascar-darlington-reddick-jordan-3593fdb98d270c2e8b66d69e8a4fe23a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The 30-year-old unsurprisingly holds the No. 1 spot in the Cup Series standings, sitting 95 points above Ryan Blaney at No. 2. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyler Reddick has gotten off to a strong start to the 2026 NASCAR season while driving for Michael&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":560436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-560435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560435","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=560435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/560435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/560436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=560435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=560435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=560435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}