The 2024 NASCAR Cup Series Regular Season champion Tyler Reddick has advanced to the In-Season Challenge semifinals this week \u2013 and will be racing head-to-head with fellow Toyota driver, Ty Gibbs.<\/p>\n
Reddick said the excellence his team has shown in the inaugural head-to-head midseason $1 million-to-win tournament has been enjoyable. And now possibly quite profitable. But more importantly for Reddick, the success in recent weeks is a good omen for his No. 45 23XI Racing team, which is still looking for its first win of the season after tying a career-best single-season mark last year with three victories.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s fair to say, I think we are to some degree, frustrated we haven\u2019t won, for sure but we\u2019ve been using it as motivation to finding speed,\u2019\u2019 allowed Reddick, who is ranked 13th in the standings \u2013 tops among the four drivers still without a victory yet. \u201cWe haven\u2019t backed away from fact we haven\u2019t won a race, we\u2019re using it to motivate ourselves right now.<\/p>\n
As for the In-Season Challenge, Reddick smiled about his face-off with Gibbs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThe last three weeks I feel like we\u2019ve been racing around each other a bunch, so I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m going to need any [real time updates) and I feel like that\u2019s going to continue,\u2019\u2019 said Reddick, who will roll off fourth Sunday.<\/p>\n
Reddick said he saw a statistic this week that he and Gibbs \u2013 who starts ninth \u2013 have run near in close proximity for more than 490 laps of racing at Dover in the last two years.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt does feel like every time I\u2019ve been here to Dover since Ty\u2019s been in the Cup Series I can at least see him on the race track when I\u2019m making laps,\u2019\u2019 Reddick said, adding, \u201cI feel like we\u2019re going to be around each other a lot this weekend and hopefully have some good hard racing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Interesting three of the four drivers still competing for the In-Season Challenge paycheck are named Ty \u2013 Reddick, Gibbs and Ty Dillon (who starts 21st) in the other half of the bracket.<\/p>\n
\u201cHas John Hunter changed his name yet?\u2019\u2019 Reddick joked of John Hunter Nemechek, the only driver still in the bracket not named Ty. The Legacy Motor Club driver will start 28th.<\/p>\n
The In-Season Challenge grand finale between the winner of the Reddick-Gibbs and Nemechek-Dillon match-ups will be next week at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2024 NASCAR Cup Series Regular Season champion Tyler Reddick has advanced to the In-Season Challenge semifinals this…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":76616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[52998,12442,1406,6180,6166,9651,9652,62,1103,52999,24389,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-76615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-indianapolis-motor-speedway","9":"tag-motor","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-racing","12":"tag-series","13":"tag-speed","14":"tag-speedway","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-toyota","17":"tag-ty-dillon","18":"tag-tyler-reddick","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114882580648368552","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76615","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=76615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}