Kevin Harvick understands why Tyler Reddick was dejected after the Nashville Cup Series race on Sunday. On Kevin Harvick’s Happy Hour, Harvick explained why Reddick was not happy with his P3 finish at the Ally 400.
“I think Tyler Reddick knows that he should have won more races than he’s won, that’s my opinion,” Harvick said. “I think he’s frustrated with the fact that he hadn’t won. His car was way faster than Joey Logano‘s at the end. He tried that topline both laps there at the end, and Logano just ran him up the hill and air-blocked him and he didn’t leave himself any options.
“I think he’s just frustrated with the fact he hasn’t won as many races as he felt like he should have won. He’s had so many heartbreak moments this year, whether it was Vegas or now Nashville. He was way faster than those cars around him. Logano did a good job. He definitely took the line away and pushed him out of the groove. But there was a whole other racetrack down there for as much faster as his car was. So I think he’s frustrated with himself and the fact he hasn’t won as many as he thinks he should have.”
Reddick spoke about the race on the Actions Detrimental podcast and explained what happened at the end of the race. “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.”
Tyler Reddick on having the ‘wrong approach’ at Nashville
Later in the podcast, Reddick talked about the end of the race and planning for 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.”
Reddick won the Talladega race in April, meaning he clinched a spot in the playoffs. He’s looking to build on what he accomplished last season, finishing sixth in the standings in his first year with 23XI Racing.
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