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NASCAR Cup Series

GEICO 500

Talladega Superspeedway

April 21st, 2024

Race #10 of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series Season

Laps Scheduled: 188
Miles Raced : 500.1
Time of Race : 03 Hours 13 minutes 29 seconds
Average Speed: 155.977 mph
Margin of Victory : 00.208 seconds
Cautions: 4
Caution Laps: 21
Lead Changes: 73

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Driver	ST	50%	10%	FIN	HI	LW	AVG	PC D	Pass	Passed	PS D	Q PASS	Fast	%T15	TOT Led	Laps	Rating	TOT PTS
Tyler Reddick	18	24	3	1	1	35	17.0	+17	478	472	+6	187	3	42.0%	13	188	85.3	47
Brad Keselowski	22	31	2	2	1	36	17.8	+20	496	450	+46	218	5	47.3%	2	188	87.6	38
Noah Gragson	36	5	4	3	1	36	10.7	+33	566	534	+32	318	2	70.7%	5	188	121.0	34
Ricky Stenhouse Jr	33	27	15	4	4	33	21.9	+29	447	410	+37	124	2	20.7%	0	188	61.4	33
Alex Bowman	12	25	13	5	2	32	16.5	+7	545	540	+5	221	3	51.1%	0	188	85.3	33
Anthony Alfredo	24	17	19	6	1	36	20.2	+18	482	481	+1	120	4	25.0%	4	188	61.5	0
William Byron	13	19	17	7	2	35	16.7	+6	464	474	-10	188	5	47.3%	0	188	80.5	38
Todd Gilliland	3	6	10	8	1	31	13.3	-5	540	541	-1	326	4	64.4%	0	188	109.8	29
Daniel Hemric	19	22	23	9	1	34	15.9	+10	559	563	-4	208	6	45.7%	8	188	95.7	28
Harrison Burton	16	29	25	10	2	35	19.0	+6	513	541	-28	149	6	34.0%	0	188	68.8	32
Martin Truex Jr	6	7	5	11	1	36	16.9	-5	429	445	-16	264	4	48.9%	16	188	89.3	26
Chase Briscoe	26	36	21	12	1	37	25.3	+14	346	350	-4	135	8	20.7%	3	188	52.2	25
Ross Chastain	32	34	9	13	1	35	13.9	+19	469	433	+36	287	3	63.3%	6	188	94.8	30
Ryan Preece	11	9	24	14	2	36	20.0	-3	568	559	+9	187	6	32.5%	0	188	81.1	25
Chase Elliott	9	21	22	15	1	31	15.8	-6	566	577	-11	195	4	42.0%	5	188	82.1	34
Josh Berry	29	26	7	16	1	37	18.5	+13	501	488	+13	186	8	47.3%	3	188	71.0	21
Carson Hocevar	35	35	30	17	1	37	28.6	+18	302	289	+13	17	8	6.4%	1	188	58.7	20
Corey Lajoie	31	8	29	18	1	36	18.2	+13	536	552	-16	222	7	41.0%	0	188	71.1	19
Joey Logano	7	18	14	19	1	36	16.3	-12	444	460	-16	195	1	50.0%	22	188	67.1	28
Ryan Blaney	21	28	18	20	1	37	22.5	+1	382	398	-16	106	5	28.7%	1	188	46.3	24
Kyle Larson	38	10	20	21	1	38	21.0	+17	369	336	+33	209	2	43.1%	0	188	67.9	24
Ty Gibbs	15	16	6	22	1	34	15.8	-7	558	582	-24	253	2	49.5%	1	188	78.4	16
Austin Cindric	2	15	12	23	1	26	10.9	-21	470	472	-2	354	4	76.1%	16	188	94.0	33
Cody Ware	34	3	28	24	2	37	26.7	+10	401	391	+10	60	5	14.4%	0	188	42.2	13
Chris Buescher	8	4	27	25	1	30	17.4	-17	533	532	+1	164	6	35.1%	6	188	73.8	16
Kyle Busch	4	11	8	26	1	34	12.1	-22	502	530	-28	321	2	75.0%	4	188	85.2	17
Daniel Suarez	25	33	11	27	2	37	20.4	-2	474	462	+12	231	4	44.2%	0	188	49.6	10
Shane van Gisbergen	17	13	16	28	1	37	19.9	-11	553	555	-2	177	4	33.5%	3	188	56.6	0
Zane Smith	30	37	26	29	3	38	29.6	+1	261	276	-15	123	4	16.5%	0	188	39.6	8
Austin Dillon	5	12	31	30	1	33	17.9	-25	504	523	-19	246	3	42.6%	0	188	55.0	14
Michael McDowell	1	23	1	31	1	32	13.3	-30	455	477	-22	197	5	53.2%	36	187	89.6	6
BJ McLeod	37	38	32	32	1	38	30.2	+5	207	206	+1	133	7	17.0%	5	187	61.0	0
John Hunter Nemechek	20	2	33	33	1	37	25.1	-13	261	258	+3	42	8	20.2%	20	184	36.0	4
Justin Haley	27	30	34	34	1	37	26.2	-7	348	348	+0	134	5	19.7%	4	184	36.6	3
Erik Jones	28	32	35	35	4	33	24.5	-7	348	357	-9	53	2	18.1%	0	154	32.3	2
Bubba Wallace	14	14	36	36	2	30	17.3	-22	423	443	-20	276	1	51.1%	0	154	68.6	1
Denny Hamlin	23	1	37	37	1	36	25.0	-14	347	357	-10	185	4	27.1%	4	154	34.5	1
Christopher Bell	10	20	38	38	2	36	22.7	-28	395	422	-27	205	0	34.6%	0	132	56.5	5

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Race Fast Facts

Talladega Superspeedway
GEICO 500
Race Winner: Tyler Reddick
Age: 28
Team : No. 45 - Jordan Brand Toyota
Owner: Michael Jordan
Crew Chief: Billy Scott
Tyler Reddick won the GEICO 500, his sixth victory in 156 Cup Series races.
This is his first victory and seventh top-10 finish in 2024.
This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in nine races at Talladega Superspeedway.
Brad Keselowski (second) posted his 15th top-10 finish in 31 races at Talladega Superspeedway. It is his fifth top-10 finish in 2024.
Noah Gragson (third) posted his first top-10 finish in four races at Talladega Superspeedway.
Josh Berry (16th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Kyle Larson leads the point standings by 15 points over Martin Truex Jr..

Race Recap

Tyler Reddick takes checkered in wild Talladega finish for Michael Jordan’s first win while in attendance

April 21st, 2024

By Holly Cain - NASCAR Wire Service

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 0.208-second when race leader Michael McDowell crashed trying to block competitors approaching the finish line; McDowell’s move slowing the bottom line and allowing Reddick in the high lane to motor through to his first victory of the year and sixth of his career.

So pumped to claim this win, the 28-year old Californian climbed the grandstand fence, pumping his fist to the screaming, adoring crowd while one of his 23XI Racing team owners, NBA legend Michael Jordan celebrated on pit lane, taking Reddick’s young son Beau in his arms and grinning from ear-to-ear. This was the first time Jordan had been at track when his team won a race.

“Man, it’s incredible,’’ said Reddick, who led 13 laps on the afternoon. “Everyone on this 45 Toyota Camry worked really hard today. Didn’t really work out in that third stage for us, but we were able to fight and defend our track position.

“Was that crazy guys?’’ he yelled toward the cheering grandstands. “A lot of chaos. That’s Talladega for you.’’

“I just have to give a lot of credit to Ty Gibbs and Martin Truex, it was just us Toyotas left and they pushed me with everything they had. Without Martin and Ty and those pushes we don’t win this race.’’

The final few laps pitted a low line of Fords – the manufacturer trying to earn its first win of 2024 – and a high line led by the Toyotas. McDowell, the 2021 Daytona 500 winner anticipated a huge run from the cars behind, but conceded later that he was just a little late making the block.

The contact when he pulled down to Roush Fenway Keselowski driver Brad Keselowski sent McDowell’s car off track. Keselowski was still able to recover and finish second – his second straight runner-up finish this season. Afterward, McDowell apologized to Keselowski for essentially costing the former series champion a win with the move.

“We did a good job keeping those Mustang Dark Horses up front,’’ said McDowell, who led a race best 36 laps. “He [Keselowski] did everything right. He pushed me. I was able to get in front of him the first time but when I came back down I barely wasn’t clear. I’ll have to watch the replay. I hate it. I hate it we didn’t make it to the finish line. We had such a fast mustang today. … just came up short and took a lot of guys out and I apologize.’’

The race ending was in stark contrast to the early portion of the event. For the first time since NASCAR instituted “stage racing” in 2017 there were no caution periods through the opening two stages (other than the scheduled stage breaks).

McDowell won the pole position and as promised all weekend, was set to race strategically not forcing his No. 34 Front Row Motorsports Ford to the front all day but instead when it needed to be there. There was a lot of hope that Ford would secure its first win of the year Sunday and two of the Mustangs – driven by Austin Cindric (Stage 1) and Joey Logano (Stage 2) – swept the stage victories early in the race.

But as is so often the case, a late race restart – with 27 laps remaining – set the tone for the finish with McDowell leading the bottom line and Fords stacked up behind him. Reddick led the high line with Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota driver Martin Truex Jr. behind him. McDowell and Reddick exchanged the lead 10 times in that final 27-lap stretch to the trophy – indicative of a day when there were 23 race leaders and 73 lead changes, including New Zealander Shane Van Gisbergen’s first NASCAR Cup Series laps out front on an oval (three laps).

It was an exhaustive and exhilarating afternoon depending on what side of the finishing order you came out on. All the drivers – including several collected in the multi-car race ending crash – confirmed they were okay.

“Well, [team co-owner] Denny [Hamlin] keeps saying I’m bad luck,’’ Jordan said, ”And today we proved him wrong.

“The whole team did a good job,’’ he continued. “I’m very happy to be here to see it. Everybody always tells me when we win we have a good celebration but this is the first time I’ve been here [for a win].

“As you know this is NBA playoffs right now and to me, this is like an NBA playoff game, I am so ecstatic for the fans who support the sport itself. You know we’ve been working hard trying to get ourselves to compete against all the top guys in this sport. And we’ve done a heckuva job just to be where we are and for us to win and win a big race like this it means so much to me and effort the team has put in.

“I’m all in. It replaces a lot of competitiveness I had in basketball, but this is even worse because I have no control. If I was playing basketball, I’d have total control, but I have no control and live vicariously through the drivers and crew chiefs. I’m very happy for 23 eleven – 110 percent.’’

Hamlin, who finished 37th after being collected in a crash, smiled upon hearing Jordan’s elation and Beau Reddicks’ cool celebration with the legend.

“Beau has no idea of the significance of that moment,” Hamlin said.

Stewart-Haas Racing’s Noah Gragson finished a career best third, followed by JTG Daugherty’s Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Hendrick Motorsports’ Alex Bowman.

Anthony Alfredo, who led four laps, finished a career best sixth place for Beard Motorsports. Hendrick Motorsports’ William Byron was seventh, followed by Front Row Motorsports’ Todd Gilliland, Spire Motorsports’ Justin Haley and the Wood Brothers’ Harrison Burton.

Despite a 20th place finish Sunday, Hendrick Motorsports’ Kyle Larson leads the NASCAR Cup Series championship standings by 16 points over Truex, who was 11th Sunday.