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Tyler Reddick Sweeps Season’s First Two Cup Races With Double-Overtime Atlanta Win

The victory sends 23XI into the points lead with Reddick first, Bubba Wallace second.

Overview

  • Reddick edged Chase Briscoe by 0.164 seconds after two overtime restarts to claim the Autotrader 400 at EchoPark Speedway.
  • He led a race-high 53 laps and became the sixth driver to start a Cup season 2-0, the first since Matt Kenseth in 2009.
  • The No. 45 Toyota finished the race missing its right-front fender after Reddick was caught in a Lap 224 crash with multiple cars.
  • The event set a track record with 57 lead changes, featured a Lap 256 Turn 3 pileup that prompted a red flag, and a first-overtime incident when Carson Hocevar spun Christopher Bell.
  • Rain scrapped Saturday qualifying, so NASCAR’s metric awarded Reddick the pole; Wallace won Stage 2 and finished eighth as the series heads to Circuit of the Americas on March 1.