{"id":615590,"date":"2026-04-20T01:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/615590\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T01:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:47:10","slug":"reddick-matches-earnhardt-mark-with-fifth-nascar-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/615590\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddick Matches Earnhardt Mark with Fifth NASCAR Win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tyler Reddick used an overtime finish in Kansas Speedway\u2019s AdventHealth 400 to register an achievement that hasn\u2019t been recorded since seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Dale Earnhardt did it in 1987\u2014win five of the season\u2019s first nine races.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a guy on the Mount Rushmore of NASCAR drivers. To be able to accomplish things that someone like him (Earnhardt) did is truly incredible,\u201d said Reddick, who gave the checkered flag to team owner Michael Jordan who walked from the team\u2019s pit to the track\u2019s finish line to celebrate with the crew. <\/p>\n

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Reddick\u2019s 13th career Cup victory gave 23XI Racing its fourth win in the last nine races at the 1.5-mile Kansas track. The organization also had all four of its cars finish in the top 15 for the first time in the organization\u2019s history. Bubba Wallace placed fifth, Riley Herbst took 14th, and Corey Heim finished 15th.<\/p>\n

\u201c23XI, all the guys drove well today,\u201d Jordan said. \u201cThat says a lot about the program.\u201d <\/p>\n

Toyota drivers have now won seven of the season\u2019s first nine races, the most for any OEM since 2007.<\/p>\n

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Headed to the white flag in Sunday\u2019s race, it appeared Reddick would have to settle for second behind the race\u2019s top lap leader Denny Hamlin. With two laps remaining in the scheduled 267-lap race, Reddick told his crew his Toyota had run out of fuel, and he had to switch to pump two.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we started to run out of fuel, I didn\u2019t know what was happening,\u201d Jordan said.<\/p>\n

Crew chief Billy Scott later said the car wasn\u2019t out of gas, but there possibly was a fuel pump problem. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe felt confident we had enough gas in there,\u201d Scott said. \u201cIt\u2019s some sort of mechanical problem that we\u2019ll dive into this week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Toyota drivers have now won seven of the season\u2019s first nine races, the most for any OEM since 2007.<\/p>\n

Even though Reddick\u2019s Toyota returned to speed after he flipped to the second pump, it was a spin by Cody Ware in turn four as leader Hamlin headed to the white flag with Reddick in tow that changed everything. <\/p>\n

The race\u2019s only caution for an accident turned the event into the third overtime race this season. All 17-lead lap cars pitted. Hamlin and Reddick were among the 10 cars that took only two tires. Chase Briscoe lined up 11th and was the first one with four fresh tires. When they chose their lanes for the restart, Hamlin took the inside and Reddick the outside.<\/p>\n

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Tyler Reddick led Denny Hamlin (#11) and the rest of the field back to the green.<\/p>\n

When the green flag waved, there was a mad scramble for the lead. Reddick clipped Christopher Bell, who smacked the wall. Reddick then dove to the inside of Kyle Larson in turn two while Briscoe charged through the field. It wasn\u2019t until the final turn on the last lap that Reddick pulled ahead of Larson, defeating the Hendrick Motorsports driver by 0.118 second. <\/p>\n

\u201cFelt like I was in a good spot going into (turn) one,\u201d Reddick said. \u201cChristopher crept up. I knew he was going to get there. I kind of blew that one. Denny coming up into me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Larson, whose winless streak now stands at 33 races, said he had good execution on the restart, and once he took the lead, he thought he could \u201ccruise\u201d to the checkered flag. <\/p>\n

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\u201cBut my balance on two tires was just super, super tight,\u201d said Larson, who last visited a Cup victory lane at Kansas last spring. \u201cI didn\u2019t get through (turns) three and four fast enough, and then the No. 45 (Reddick) had such a big run on me from behind. I thought I could go to the top to get some load into my front tires, but it still didn\u2019t turn there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hamlin, who led six times for 131 laps in the 274-lap race, couldn\u2019t hide his disappointment during an interview with Fox Sports. At one point, Jordan, who co-owns 23XI Racing with Hamlin, grabbed Hamlin around his neck and rubbed his cap as he walked by, but it was obvious that the Joe Gibbs Racing driver wasn\u2019t amused. Hamlin cited Ware, who was six laps down, wrecking before he could receive the white flag as the most frustrating part of the race\u2019s closing laps. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve got to learn from those mistakes that I make, not executing those last few laps.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like the same move that the 5 (Larson) got me (on) a couple years ago when I was on the inside,\u201d Hamlin said about the overtime finish. \u201cI\u2019ve got to learn from those mistakes that I make, not executing those last few laps. Got into the wall. But it didn\u2019t really affect the finishing position.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the victory, Reddick now possesses a 105-point lead in the driver standings. Hamlin moved into second due to Ryan Blaney\u2019s disastrous day. Blaney emerged from the weekend in third in the standings. Rounding out the top five, respectively, are Ty Gibbs and Larson. Gibbs\u2019 ninth-place finish was his seventh consecutive top 10. <\/p>\n

Briscoe Breaks into Top 16<\/p>\n

After a disappointing start to the 2026 NASCAR Cup season, Chase Briscoe has posted two consecutive top-five finishes and three top-10s in the last five races to break into the top 16 in the driver standings. The top 16 at the end of the regular season will contend for this year\u2019s championship.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreat call by James (Small, crew chief) there to be on offense,\u201d Briscoe said, referencing the fact that they took four tires while 10 of their competitors in front of them took two. <\/p>\n

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\u201cWe were not very good. We ran about 10th all day long. We were able to make something out of it in the end on that restart.\u201d<\/p>\n

Briscoe\u2019s third-place finish was his best since the season\u2019s second race at Atlanta when he took second. <\/p>\n

\u201cI would have loved to have another lap,\u201d Briscoe continued. \u201cI didn\u2019t quite clear him (Denny Hamlin) and it messed both of our momentums up. It made it where I couldn\u2019t make a move there in the end. <\/p>\n

\u201cI wouldn\u2019t say we are proud of that effort. We kind of got lucky with that caution. We were going to run 12th with two to go, so glad we were able to turn it around. (We\u2019ll) see if we can build on it.\u201d <\/p>\n

Dismal Day for Blaney<\/p>\n

Ryan Blaney, who had posted six top-10 finishes, including a victory, in the first eight races, experienced his most dismal event since the season opening Daytona 500. <\/p>\n

On lap 39 of the overtime event at Kansas Speedway, Blaney hit A.J. Allmendinger and spun the Kaulig Racing driver who was entering his pit as Blaney was leaving. On lap 83, Blaney\u2019s crew took a \u201ctoo many crew members in the pit service area\u201d penalty so they could work on the car\u2019s front splitter.<\/p>\n

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Ryan Blaney.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe No. 12 (Blaney) was, I think, three or four boxes behind us,\u201d Allmendinger said. \u201cI was watching him the whole time, and I was going to check up if he ever dropped the jack before I got to his box. But I passed his box maybe just right as they dropped the jack, and as I turned in, he turned out. I was hoping he\u2019d checkup because I was already committed, but he didn\u2019t and spun us out.\u201d <\/p>\n

Blaney went a lap down on lap 130 while running 21st and never regained the lost lap. He finished 24th, one lap down, which was his worst finish since he placed 27th in the season opening Daytona 500. Blaney\u2019s second worst performance this season dropped him from second to third in the driver standings, 120 points behind standings leader and race winner Tyler Reddick. <\/p>\n

\"Lettermark\"<\/p>\n

A North Carolina native, Deb Williams is an award-winning motorsports journalist who is in her fourth decade covering auto racing. In addition to covering the sport for United Press International, she has written motorsports articles for several newspapers, magazines and websites including espnW.com<\/a>, USA Today, and The Charlotte Observer. Her awards include the American Motorsports Media Award of Excellence, two-time National Motorsports Press Association writer of the year, and two-time recipient of the Russ Catlin award. She also has won an award in the North Carolina Press Association\u2019s sports feature category.\u00a0 During her career, Deb has been managing editor of GT Motorsports magazine and was with Winston Cup Scene and NASCAR Winston Cup Scene for 18 years, serving as the publication\u2019s editor for 10 years. In 2024 she was inducted into the NMPA Hall of Fame.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyler Reddick used an overtime finish in Kansas Speedway\u2019s AdventHealth 400 to register an achievement that hasn\u2019t been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,782,231399,784,1642,634,231398,82,183339],"class_list":["post-615590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-dff72573-f3c5-4052-9c2d-08c44a73086f","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-locale-us","tag-nascar","tag-shorttitle-reddick-matches-earnhardt-with-fifth-nascar-win","tag-sports","tag-subsection-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615590","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=615590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}