Tyler Reddick was a person of few phrases after ending third Sunday night time at Nashville Superspeedway.
Reddick and his 23XI Racing group had been able to win the Ally 400 by being among the many most secure on gas mileage. The group pitted for the ultimate time earlier than the primary extra time try, and Reddick was again inside the highest 10 by the point the race went into its fifth and last restart.
He was third within the outdoors lane, sixth place, on the inexperienced and was working fourth when the sphere got here off Flip 2 with two laps to go and took a run within the outdoors lane to second place coming via Flip 4.
It was Joey Logano and Reddick going into Flip 1 on the white flag. The No. 45 once more went for the excessive lane, however Logano blocked the run, placing the 23XI automobile into defensive mode with Zane Smith down the backstretch.
Logano blocked one other run on the excessive facet from Reddick in Turns 3 and 4, which was sufficient to propel him to the end. Smith then nipped Reddick in a side-by-side battle on the checkered flag for the runner-up spot.
“All the pieces,” Reddick advised NBC Sports activities about what he would have achieved totally different on the final lap. “It’s fairly disappointing.”
The frustration and frustration had been evident. When requested how he was dealing with the feelings, he replied, “I’m making an attempt my greatest, but it surely’s powerful. I’m making an attempt to maintain cool in the intervening time; I’m actually upset about how that ended.”
Reddick led 16 laps and earned his first top-three end since successful at Talladega Superspeedway (April 21). It was additionally his fifth top-10 end within the final six races.
However he wished no half in any of the silver linings.
“No,” Reddick mentioned. “All the great vehicles ran out of gas and we had been in place to go the No. 22 (Logano), who hadn’t been good all day lengthy and didn’t get the job achieved.”
