Michael Jordan stood among the crowd in Tyler Reddick’s pit box cheering, fist-pumping and high-fiving those around him. At one point he took hold of Reddick’s son, Beau, and asked the youngster if he was going to celebrate, and in victory lane, Jordan gave a rare television interview to Fox Spo.
Tyler Reddick prevailed in a typically-frantic Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway run to the checkered flag Sunday in the GEICO 500 NASCAR Cup Series race, narrowly avoiding a multi-car crash in the closing 400 yards – coming from third place out of Turn 4, to earn the win by a slight 0.
Bubba Wallace had a question and kept asking those around him until he got an answer. “Where’d he finish?” Wallace asked of teammate Tyler Reddick while doing his required top five media obligations on pit road Sunday at Martinsville Speedway.
Bubba Wallace is as aware as anyone in the Toyota Racing camp that the stretch of races in the NASCAR Cup Series lays out perfectly over the next month. Given that, the agenda is simple: don’t fumble.
Kamui Kobayashi will return to 23XI Racing for his second NASCAR Cup Series start at Circuit of The Americas. Kobayashi will be in a third, No. 50 Toyota Camry entry for the team March 24, alongside Tyler Reddick and Bubba Wallace. COTA is the first road course race of the NASCAR season.