Tyler Reddick has been on an absolute tear.
Monday’s (Aug. 19) race at Michigan International Speedway marked his second win of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season, and it came on the heels of a seven-race stretch where he’s finished no worse than sixth.
Reddick is sporting an average finish of 3.3 in his last seven starts, a mark that no one else has achieved in the Next Gen car.
Since the start of the streak with a sixth-place finish at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on June 23, Reddick has roared from sixth in regular season points to the points lead for the first time in his Cup career.
Along with his two wins at Michigan and Talladega Superspeedway, Reddick leads all drivers this season with 11 top-five finishes and 17 top-10 finishes in 24 starts. No one else is even close to Reddick in the top 10s department, as William Byron and Christopher Bell are tied for second at 13.
Reddick also leads the Cup Series in average finish (10.5), and his greatest strength in 2024 has been maximizing his performance week in and week out. Reddick has never had an average finish better than 15.0 in a full-time Cup season, so his 2024 has marked a considerable improvement in consistency. And that consistency might pay off in two weeks’ time if he is able to capture the regular season championship and the coveted 15 playoff points that come with it.
And to show just how stellar of a season Reddick’s had, he’s already set career highs for top fives and top 10s in a season, and there’s still 12 races left for him to keep adding to those already enormous totals.
But perhaps the biggest testament to Reddick’s progress this season is the sheer number of races where he’s been in contention to win with the checkered flag in sight.
At Las Vegas Motor Speedway in March, Reddick finished second after a late-race duel with Kyle Larson. While Larson had dominated the afternoon, Reddick had the better car at the finish, and it took an absolutely perfect performance of aeroblocking from Larson to keep the No. 45 at bay.
At Texas Motor Speedway, Reddick had the best long-run car by far, and he had a five-second lead until a barrage of…
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