Tyler Reddick gained Sunday’s Daytona 500 after a last-lap cross on Chase Elliott within the race’s closing seconds.
Reddick had assist from 23XI Racing teammate Riley Herbst on the exit of flip 4 and maneuvered round Chase Elliott to attain the ninth win of his NASCAR Cup Collection profession.
Reddick cried tears of pleasure as he rode round Daytona Worldwide Speedway on the cooldown lap. He led solely the ultimate lap of Sunday’s 200-lap race.
The win is Reddick’s first since Homestead in 2024.
“Final yr was actually arduous for all of us, arduous for me,” Reddick advised Fox Sports activities. “Whenever you’re a Cup driver and also you get to this stage and drive for Michael Jordan, it is anticipated that you simply win yearly. Simply speechless. I did not know if I might ever win this race. It is surreal, actually. One thing about at the moment simply felt proper.”
Notable outcomes
Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Joey Logano, Elliott and Brad Keselowski rounded out the highest 5, with Zane Smith, Chris Buescher, Herbst, Josh Berry and Stage 2 winner Bubba Wallace finishing the top-10.
Different notable finishers embody two-time Daytona 500 winner William Byron in twelfth, polesitter Kyle Busch in fifteenth, defending Cup Collection champion Kyle Larson in sixteenth, Carson Hocevar in nineteenth and Ryan Blaney in twenty seventh.
Hocevar led on the white flag however was spun going into flip one.
A 17-car crash within the closing laps of Stage 2 took out Justin Allgaier, Alex Bowman and Todd Gilliland after Allgaier threw a late, ill-fated block on Denny Hamlin within the tri-oval. With 9 laps to go, Hamlin and Christopher Bell crashed within the tri-oval.
Sunday’s race set a report with 23 totally different leaders, essentially the most ever in a Daytona 500.
