Tyler Reddick knew he missed out on a big opportunity during the Cup Series race at Nashville Superspeedway on Sunday. While speaking with Denny Hamlin on the Actions Detrimental podcast, Reddick expressed his frustrations despite earning a P3 finish.
“I don’t know if we just missed the adjustment a little bit, didn’t adjust enough, but from that point on to when the race ended there we were just too tight,” Reddick said when talking about a restart with around 60 to 70 laps to go. “Coludn’t make moves, couldn’t go anywhere, so that was frustrating for sure.”
Later in the podcast, Reddick talked about the end of the race and planning for Joey Logano to run out of gas. “I feel like I got there with one to go. I mean kind of all day long I’ve been adversely affect by the Big Arc in the late Apex and pretty much had zero success running within two or three car links of somebody on the bottom doing that. When that would happen, I just lose my run. I wouldn’t even be anywhere near for another lap and a half.
“I was really hoping [Logano] was going to take that approach I’d seen others take all day long. In the moment, I didn’t know that when he was racing the 14 [Chase Briscoe], he raced him in a similar way, really ran up the track, ran him out of room. Not knowing that the restart before he got by the 14 doing that, I probably had the wrong approach.”
Tyler Reddick was upset after the Nashville Cup Series race
Reddick, 28, has clinched a spot in the Cup Series playoffs after winning the race in Talladega earlier this year. The P3 finish at Nashville is Reddick’s fifth top-10 finish in the last six races. This is his second year with 23XI Racing and is coming off a 2023 season where he finished sixth in the standings.
But the despite the success he has had this year, Reddick was not happy with himself after Sunday’s race. “I’m trying my best, Kim, but it’s tough. I’m trying to keep it cool at the moment, I’m really upset about how that ended,” Reddick tokd NBC Sports on Sunday.
When asked about any “positives” to take away from the P3 finish, Reddick replied, “No. All the good cars ran out of fuel and we were in position to pass 22, hadn’t been good all day long. Didn’t get the job done. So…”
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