Tyler Reddick was content material to stroll away from Indianapolis Motor Speedway with a stable factors day after ending second within the Brickyard 400.
“Me and Kyle (Larson) have been the primary few vehicles on that alternate technique,” Reddick mentioned. “We had that subject on pit highway. I feel he had some subject on pit highway as nicely that put him again there. We simply didn’t have something to lose. An awesome effort by all of us; the automobile went by the sector. Sadly, when Kyle acquired to me and handed me like he did, I wasn’t anticipating it. It was actually artistic, and he continued to catch the remainder of the sector and cross vehicles.
“I want I may’ve seen that one coming and possibly defend that higher. It was an effective way to make a cross. [Unfortunately it] means we convey dwelling our Beast Unleashed Toyota Camry second, however good factors day. Didn’t rating as many as [Larson], however nonetheless, a reasonably stable factors day.”
Reddick didn’t have a shot of probably difficult Larson over the last lap as a warning ended the race. The 23XI Racing driver acquired to the place a lap early on the restart, making the cross on Ryan Blaney going into Flip 2. He lined up third on the second additional time try.
NASCAR threw the warning for Ryan Preece spinning on the backstretch after Larson took the white flag. There was time to throw the warning earlier than the white flag, as Preece struggled and didn’t get his automobile shifting due to a flat tire, which might have given Reddick one other shot on a restart.
Within the quick aftermath of the end, Reddick, who seemingly had not seen any replays, didn’t know the timing of when the warning was thrown. He laughed and mentioned now he was mad after being instructed NASCAR may have thrown the warning to arrange a 3rd additional time try.
“You at all times have a shot with these restarts,” Reddick mentioned. “It did seem to be Flip 1 was getting fairly difficult however [Kyle and I] have been even on laps on tires, and I felt fairly assured being on the surface of different vehicles. All of it depends upon how the launch goes within the restart zone; if I acquired a very good push and had a nostril forward, I really feel like we’d have a shot at it. It’s what it’s. We’ll take our second place and chill for a few weeks.”
Reddick began from the pole Sunday and led a race-high 40 laps. He’s 15 factors behind Larson within the hunt for the regular-season championship.
