Even after a late spin from Cody Ware — the race’s solely warning for incident — produced an additional time end, that was nonetheless not sufficient to maintain Tyler Reddick from becoming a member of some unique firm after choosing up his fifth win within the season’s first 9 races on Sunday at Kansas.
Listed here are 4 takeaways from the AdventHealth 400:
Tyler Reddick’s sizzling begin continues
Reddick is the primary driver since Dale Earnhardt (1987) to win 5 of the primary 9 races and solely the fourth driver to perform the feat (Richard Petty, Cale Yarborough, Earnhardt), per the Fox broadcast.
Reddick’s benefit on Sunday got here by pitting below inexperienced six laps later than Denny Hamlin — who led a race-high 131 laps — which gave him some more energizing tires within the closing laps. Whereas he overtook Hamlin for the lead with 10 laps to go, he brushed the wall after operating out of gas with three laps remaining.
As Reddick tried to mount one final cost, Ware’s spin introduced the warning out as Hamlin approached the exit of Flip 4 coming to the white flag. Reddick overtook Kyle Larson going into Flip 3 on the ultimate lap of the OT end and held on to win by 0.118 seconds for his fifth win of the season, second at Kansas and thirteenth of his profession.
