He may be eliminated from the playoffs, but that didn’t stop Tyler Reddick from going for the win at Texas. The RCR driver held on and thankfully, the tires did as well, beating Joey Logano to the checkered flag in a high-attrition race.
In a race slowed by 16 cautions and even a red flag, there was no clear favorite. For Reddick, he’s now won three races this season. Only Chase Elliott has won more races.
“I was extremely worried (about the tires), I’m not going to lie,” said Reddick. “Unfortunately, just about every time we’ve had fast cars, we’ve had some tire problems. Yeah, that last run the right sides were vibrating really, really hard there.
“I was just trying to maximize and use the gap that I built over Joey just in case. I mean, every time we’ve had a strong car, we’ve been bit by something, man. Just really proud to be able to get this Lenovo Chevy to Victory Lane. We were at Auto Club earlier this year, so fast with this car. They deserve to go to get to Victory Lane. We got them there.”
Justin Haley, Ryan Blaney, and Chase Briscoe rounded out the top-five. Erik Jones, William Byron, Brad Keselowski, Kyle Larson, and Denny Hamlin filled out the rest of the top-ten.
Stage 1
Keselowski started from pole position. He briefly battled Logano for the lead before clearing him and setting sail.
Wallace had an unscheduled pit stop in the early running. Meanwhile, Keselowski led the first 30 laps before slipping up the track in Turn 1, falling back to third.
A few laps later, the first caution flag waved for the spinning No. 19 Toyota of Martin Truex Jr.
Byron got the lead on pit road, taking the top spot from Logano with a faster stop. Keselowski was caught speeding and was forced to restart from the back of the field.
Kyle Busch then crashed, becoming the first driver to fall out of the race. It’s been a season to forget for the outgoing JGR driver.
“Just was getting a little closer to the No. 11 (Hamlin) and knew if I tracked him – followed him in the lower groove, then I would lose ground,” he said after being released from the infield care center. “So I went to the high groove where I was making time in the sticky stuff, (but) it’s not so sticky sometimes apparently.
He then added: “Bananas peels out there. Too many conditions that you got to be smarter about. I guess I wasn’t very smart.”
The cautions kept coming as Ricky Stenhouse Jr. spun through the infield. Later on, playoff driver Christopher Bell…
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