Tyler Reddick has completed no worse than third within the final three NASCAR Cup Collection races, however with how laborious he’s been on himself afterward, it won’t really feel that means.
Per week in the past, Reddick hit the wall on the ultimate lap in Chicago when he was chasing down Alex Bowman. Reddick admitted afterward that he “screwed up” and made the “dumbest mistake.” He completed second.
A 3rd-place end the week earlier than at Nashville Superspeedway was additionally disappointing to him. Reddick was in a very good place on gasoline and tires going into the fifth and remaining additional time when he couldn’t discover a means round Joey Logano on the final lap. Afterward, Reddick stated he “didn’t get the job accomplished” and was clearly discouraged.
Statistically, it’s been a very good two weeks. Emotionally, not as a lot for Reddick. However the 23XI Racing driver stated Saturday he doesn’t carry these battles.
“I believe I transfer previous it (fairly effectively), fortunately,” Reddick stated at Pocono Raceway. “There are a selection of negatives, and I selected to investigate these (however) I’d say by the point we’re accomplished having our conferences on Monday, it’s within the rearview mirror, and moved on excited about the positives from the weekend and excited about what we’ve got forward of us.”
Luckily, there’s a lot forward for Reddick and the No. 45 workforce. Because the common season winds down, Reddick has entered the image for the regular-season championship as he moved to 3rd within the level standings along with his Chicago consequence, which was his sixth top-10 end within the final seven races.
Reddick is 23 factors out of the purpose lead with six races remaining. It goes with out saying that Reddick is conscious it gained’t be straightforward to earn the regular-season title and the 15 further playoff factors. He’s one in all seven drivers lower than 100 factors behind chief Kyle Larson.
“It’s on my thoughts now,” Reddick stated of the common season champion battle. “It wasn’t definitely again in February, March, April — didn’t even cross my thoughts a single time. I didn’t know if we have been going to have the ability to run these guys again down.
“We had type of a messy begin of the yr — like we did final yr — and right here we’re. We’ve closed the hole and we’re inside putting distance.”
A victory at Talladega Superspeedway (April 21) has Reddick locked into the postseason. Nonetheless, he has simply eight playoff factors.
Reddick was twelfth within the standings after the season’s first three races.
