Reddick, a regular in the Cup Series, was making just his second start of the year driving Big Machine Racing’s No. 48 Chevrolet.
The win is the first for the organization – owned by Scott Borchetta – which only began fielding a team last season.
Just before the final caution of the race, Reddick passed Brandon Jones on Lap 137 of 167 laps to take the lead for the first time in the race. He got a great jump on the restart with 21 laps to go and held off William Byron by 1.825 seconds for his 10th career win.
“Just a big thank you to Big Machine Racing for this opportunity,” Reddick said. “We had a good car at Darlington and I threw that away. It feels good to come back and redeem myself.
“These guys have been working really hard and they want to run up front. We’re going to come in here and try to help them be up front where they want to be. It’s really cool that we were able to get it done in our second time out.”
Asked about his emotions after the race, the team’s crew chief Patrick Donahue said, “Crying a little bit. We just started this thing last year.
“Man, oh man, we’ve worked so hard and tore so much stuff up. Everybody on this team that believed in what I wanted to do. I can’t even tell you.”
Sam Mayer finished third, Justin Allgaier fourth and Austin Hill rounded out the top-five.
Completing the top-10 were Ryan Truex, Josh Berry, Riley Herbst, A.J. Allmendinger and Landon Cassill.
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Following the break between Stages 2 and 3, all the lead-lap cars pit with Berry the first off pit road. Cassill was penalized for an uncontrolled tire and Herbst was penalized for equipment interference and both had to restart from the rear of the field.
Berry led the way when the race returned to green on Lap 88.
Berry spun off Turn 2 on the restart, which sent other drivers for spins as well including Noah Gragson, Ty Gibbs, Brandon Jones and Matt Mills. Allgaier inherited the lead after the incident.
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