Don\u2019t blame 23XI driver Tyler Reddick if he\u2019s nostalgic about his team\u2019s past performance at Kansas Speedway.<\/p>\n
In 2022, when NASCAR transitioned to the Gen 7 car in the NASCAR Cup Series, 23XI swept the two Kansas events, with Kurt Busch winning in the spring and Bubba Wallace in the fall.<\/p>\n
After Joe Gibbs Racing driver (and 23XI co-owner) Denny Hamlin triumphed in the spring race of 2023, Reddick put 23 XI in Victory Lane for the third time in four races and Toyota for the fourth straight time.<\/p>\n
Since then, Chevrolet drivers\u2014Kyle Larson in particular\u2014have dominated at the track. At 23 points below the current elimination line for the Round of 8 in the NASCAR Cup Playoffs, Reddick needs a turnaround on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a stretch here where it was a 23XI Toyota or a Toyota car in general, we had a pretty good record here to be able to win races,\u201d Reddick said. \u201cI look at the last two or three times we\u2019ve been here; we\u2019ve been missing a little bit of something.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe car changes, the Goodyear tires change, so naturally you\u2019ve got to keep up with it. I think it\u2019s fair to be nervous, there\u2019s a lot that weighs on this weekend that its super important for us to either win or run top-five all day and score a lot of points.\u201d<\/p>\n
The return to a 1.5-milespeedway for the first time since the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte in May is cause for optimism, as far as Reddick is concerned.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou look at other mile and-a-half tracks this year, and we\u2019ve brought cars capable of winning races at those tracks,\u201d Reddick said. \u201cIt\u2019s been since Charlotte Motor Speedway (that) we\u2019ve had a true mile and-a-half race, so there\u2019s been a lot of time for things to change, for people to catch up and people to fall behind.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think that just adds to the nerves of the weekend to see how we perform when we get to the race track.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t blame 23XI driver Tyler Reddick if he\u2019s nostalgic about his team\u2019s past performance at Kansas Speedway. In…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":259915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[46],"tags":[15654,39414,128705,1523,12442,1406,6180,6166,9652,62,1103,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-259914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-charlotte","tag-charlotte-motor-speedway","tag-kansas-speedway","tag-kurt-busch","tag-motor","tag-nascar","tag-racing","tag-series","tag-speedway","tag-sports","tag-toyota","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115278879423570567","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}