NASCAR CUP SERIES: CHAMPIONSHIP

November 10, 2024

Tyler Reddick

Pit Lane Interview

Q. Tyler, fourth of the Championship 4 competitors, and it looked like maybe you just lacked a little bit of long run speed at times. Is that what you needed to compete with the others?

TYLER REDDICK: Yeah, I think we definitely got our Beast Camry better throughout the day. Yeah, there was that one time there we were behind the other Championship 4 cars, and they just kind of were able to pull away over time.

It was a good year for us and everyone at 23XI to get to the Championship 4 and have a shot at it was nice. But yeah, we've got to get a little bit better here in Phoenix. Obviously we're heavily motivated to do that knowing the championship is decided here.

Good year for us. Proud of the effort. It's a lot to do, all the preparation, all the work that goes into it. It takes everybody. We were close. We were just not quite good enough, unfortunately.

Q. You had some incredible restarts, three and four wide around the outsides in Turns 1 and 2. What inspired you to do that? I know that's sort of your MO, but what inspired you to do that?

TYLER REDDICK: Yeah, it just seemed like my best hope was to try and pass them on the restarts and hope I could hold them off on the long run. In Stage 1 I was almost able to hold off the 12, but just as the race kept going forward, that last restart in particular, I got outside the 12 but the 9 kind of washed up.

Got to be aggressive, and that was I feel like my best shot at trying to get ahead of the others. We fought hard all day. We didn't make any big mistakes that took ourselves out of it. We fought really hard. A lot to be proud of, but obviously when you come here, you want to leave here a champion. We'll work on it and think about what we can do in the off-season to get better here.