Reddick’s No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota clearly had the pace in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway to maintain up with eventual winner Kyle Larson however hobbled with points on pit street, a scarcity of monitor place made his chase of the chief rather more troublesome.
The conclusion of the primary two phases in addition to the tip of the race all got here all the way down to Reddick attempting to run down Larson for the lead. Every time, Larson got here out on prime.
The ultimate time got here with Larson main on a restart with 27 of 267 laps remaining and 6 laps later Reddick had made his means into the runner-up spot.
Over the following 21 laps, Reddick was capable of lower a 2-plus-second lead to some automobile lengths, however he ran out of time as Larson clinched the win.
Tyler Reddick, 23XI Racing, Nasty Beast Toyota Camry
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“Yeah, Kyle did a extremely good job there taking away just about each possibility I had there to shut the hole,” Reddick mentioned after the race. “He appeared fairly good within the center (lane) and I used to be clearly actually good on the underside, and he simply by no means let me have it, proper?
“I stored attempting to run greater and better and you understand, he’s sort of operating in the midst of the race monitor, which is fairly environment friendly to dam each lanes. Each time I type of received shut, I imply, we’re operating simply large open sufficient in (Turns) 1 and a couple of, you possibly can sort of defend fairly nicely.
“It’s irritating.”
Reddick mentioned he felt because the race went on, it was an increasing number of troublesome to make up misplaced monitor place.
“It’s important to run up entrance all day lengthy, and when requested about what we have to do to get higher, that’s the very factor, and we didn’t do it right now,” he mentioned.
Reddick felt some hiccups on pit street – together with as soon as when he slid by means of his pit field and needed to again up – prevented him from taking full benefit of the quick automobile he had.
“I really feel like we had been by no means up entrance actually all day lengthy, till it received to the stage ends. We had a extremely good (automobile),” he mentioned. “Simply silly errors on pit street. Similar shit, completely different 12 months, proper?
“Form of irritating. We’ll proceed to work on it, however a great rebound for our crew right now.”
It has been a tricky starting to the 2024 season for Reddick, who was concerned in wrecks in each the season-opener at Daytona and final weekend at Atlanta.
At Las Vegas, Reddick confirmed his potential this season however coming so near a victory that might erase the tough begin to the 12 months was arduous to take.
“We had been fairly evenly matched, so I don’t know if there was something that I actually might’ve carried out to get round him,” Reddick mentioned. “He would have needed to make a giant mistake or had some visitors sort of knock his wind round.
“It’s a strong effort for our crew, that’s how we have to run, however I don’t like operating second.”
