Reddick Secures Back-to-Back Wins, 23XI Leads Standings

Tyler Reddick was excited, but 23XI Racing co-owner Michael Jordan was ecstatic as his 30-year-old driver became the first competitor since Matt Kenseth in 2009 to secure a victory in the season’s first two NASCAR Cup Series races.

Reddick’s 10th career victory coupled with Bubba Wallace’s eighth-place finish in Sunday’s Autotrader 400 at EchoPark Speedway gave 23XI Racing the first two positions in the Cup driver point standings. Reddick is first and Wallace is second, 40 points in arrears.

However, it was Reddick’s powerful drive to victory in a damaged race car that fueled Jordan’s jubilation.

“I feel bad for Bubba, obviously, because he had an unbelievable day, but Tyler drove his ass off,” an excited Jordan said after the race that ended in double overtime. “Tyler did an unbelievable job. Both teams did an unbelievable job. For us to come out and win the first two races says a lot about our whole team.”

Reddick and Wallace combined to lead 99 of the race’s 271 laps. In the race that had 57 lead changes among 14 drivers, Reddick set the pace on 13 occasions for 53 laps while Wallace led 10 times for 46 laps.

“Truly crazy,” Reddick said about the 2026 season’s first two weeks. “For a number of years, we would leave Daytona, the first couple of races, and kind of be in the hole in points… in the 30s. We were able to claw out of it, whether it’s win races or whatever the deal was, and get back where we needed to be. For us to get through two chaotic races with a lot of points is a great start.”

Despite Reddick possessing a powerful Toyota from the race’s beginning, it appeared his victory chances disappeared on lap 224 when he was involved in a nine-car accident on the 1.54-mile track’s front stretch. Repairs were numerous, including removal of the car’s right-front fender, but crew chief Billy Scott said they realized they had speed.

“We definitely preached to him to stay in line, poke left front out, keep the right front hidden behind other cars,” Scott said. “But I guess when you take the lead on the last three-quarters of a lap, you don’t have much of a choice.”

Reddick said after his Toyota suffered the damage, Scott told him to aim for a top-15 finish.

“In some ways I kind of didn’t listen,” Reddick said. “I kind of drove it into turn one and turn three on the first lap after crashing at about a 10 out of 10. I’m glad I did because I guess on one hand I could have crashed all by myself, but I was able to really understand what we needed if we had another caution to further repair the car to help the now loose handling that we had in our car from the right-front being gone.

“It’s funny how that just kind of works. I always have kind of driven past the limit to find the limit. In a situation like that, it kind of helped us get our car more where it needed to be at the very end.”

When the race restarted in the second overtime, Reddick was behind Wallace on the inside with Joe Gibbs Racing’s Chase Briscoe behind Reddick. Carson Hocevar led the outside lane with Ross Chastain behind him. Charging down the backstretch, Wallace pulled up to block Hocevar, but went too high and Hocevar shot to his inside. Briscoe closed on Reddick’s bumper. Thanks to a shove from Briscoe, Reddick took a narrow lead over Hocevar as they received the white flag and then extended it as Chastain fell in behind Briscoe. Reddick finished 0.164-second ahead of Briscoe. The race’s top 13 drivers finished less than a second behind Reddick. Denny Hamlin, who finished 13th, was 0.885 second behind Reddick.

NASCAR Cup Series Race

Autotrader 400
Atlanta Motor Speedway
Sunday’s Results

FINISH/START/CAR/DRIVER/MANUFACTURER/LAPS

1. (1) Tyler Reddick, Toyota, 271

2. (34) Chase Briscoe, Toyota, 271

3. (21) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 271

4. (15) Carson Hocevar, Chevrolet, 271

5. (12) Daniel Suarez, Chevrolet, 271

6. (28) Shane Van Gisbergen, Chevrolet, 271

7. (6) Zane Smith, Ford, 271

8. (9) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, 271

9. (26) Ryan Preece, Ford, 271

10. (22) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 271

11. (4) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 271

12. (19) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 271

13. (29) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 271

14. (11) Noah Gragson, Ford, 271

15. (7) Chris Buescher, Ford, 271

16. (17) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 271

17. (5) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 271

18. (2) Joey Logano, Ford, 271

19. (24) John Hunter Nemechek, Toyota, 271

20. (71) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet, 271

21. (32) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 271

22. (27) Cole Custer, Chevrolet, 270

23. (36) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 269

24. (23) Erik Jones, Toyota, 269

25. (35) Todd Gilliland, Ford, 258 Accident

26. (30) Austin Cindric, Ford, 257 Accident 2

27. (18) Cody Ware, Chevrolet, 257 Accident

28. (13) William Byron, Chevrolet, 256 Accident

29. (33) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 256 Accident

30. (31) Connor Zilisch, Chevrolet, 223 Accident

31. (38) JJ Yeley, Chevrolet, 220 Accident

32. (16) Kyle Larson Valvoline, Chevrolet, 160 Accident

33. (8) Riley Herbst, Toyota, 157

34. (14) Kyle Busch, Chevrolet, 124

35. (37) BJ McLeod, Chevrolet, 111 Accident

36. (3) Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Chevrolet, 103 Accident

37. (25) Ty Gibbs, Toyota, 81 Accident

38. (10) Josh Berry, Ford, 81 Accident

Time of Race: 3 Hrs, 32 Mins, 27 Secs

Average Speed: 117.865 MPH

Margin of Victory: 0.164 Seconds

Stage 1 Top 10: 2, 23, 5, 24, 9, 45, 8, 22, 88, 12

Stage 2 Top 10: 23, 24, 19, 45, 9, 77, 60, 12, 6, 97

Fastest Lap Bonus: #41, lap 246/29.715

Failed to Qualify: None

Caution Flags: 10 for 67 laps; Laps: 62-68 (Stage 1 Conclusion [77]); 83-92 (Nos. 11, 20, 21, 35, 41, 42, 54, 78 Incident Turn 3 [77]); 104-110 (Nos. 3, 34, 35, 38, 41, 47, 78 Incident Turn 2 [None]); 126-131 (No. 8 Incident Backstretch [44]); 161-169 (Nos. 5, 97 Incident Turn 4 / Stage 2 Conclusion [34]); 200-204 (No. 97 Spin Turn 4 [34]); 225-231 (Nos. 11, 16, 17, 22, 24, 45, 48, 71, 88 Incident Frontstretch [44]); 239-243 (Nos. 22, 77 Incident Turn 4 [48]); 258-265 (Nos. 2, 3, 4, 11, 22, 24, 34, 41, 42, 43, 51 Incident Turn 3 [Red Flag 00:10:31] [48]); 267-269 (Nos. 1, 20, 23, 45, 77 Incident Turn 1 [22]).

Lead Changes: 57 among 14 drivers; T. Reddick 0; J. Logano 1; T. Reddick 2; J. Logano 3; T. Reddick 4-5; J. Logano 6-18; T. Reddick 19-23; B. Keselowski 24-28; T. Reddick 29; C. Elliott 30; B. Keselowski 31-33; T. Reddick 34; J. Logano 35-45; C. Elliott 46-53; K. Larson 54; C. Elliott 55-56; K. Larson 57; B. Wallace 58-59; A. Cindric 60-63; B. Keselowski 64; K. Larson 65-71; B. Wallace 72-79; K. Larson 80-87; S. Van Gisbergen 88; K. Larson 89-100; B. Wallace 101-102; T. Reddick 103-109; B. Wallace 110; T. Reddick 111-121; B. Wallace 122; T. Reddick 123-130; B. Wallace 131; T. Reddick 132-133; K. Larson 134-142; B. Wallace 143; K. Larson 144-149; C. Briscoe 150-155; K. Larson 156-159; B. Wallace 160-164; C. Hocevar 165; R. Blaney 166-169; Z. Smith 170; B. Keselowski 171; D. Hamlin 172-176; C. Briscoe 177-196; R. Blaney 197; C. Briscoe 198; B. Wallace 199-200; C. Hocevar 201; D. Hamlin 202-204; T. Reddick 205-206; D. Hamlin 207-208; T. Reddick 209-219; R. Blaney 220; A. Cindric 221-237; C. Bell 238-246; B. Wallace 247-269; T. Reddick 270-271.