Tyler Reddick flipped on the frontstretch at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and his South Point 400 NASCAR Cup Series race is over.
Reddick drove his No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota hard through turn 4 on lap 90 of Sunday’s NASCAR Las Vegas race to try and make a move racing for sixth place. Reddick misjudged the gap and got pinned into the wall by Chase Elliott.
After the contact from Elliott, Reddick spun and collected both Elliott and Brad Keselowski. Reddick slid through the infield grass, hit the paved quarter-mile track on the infield grass and popped the car into the air. Reddick’s car flipped once and landed on back on its wheels. He drove the car back to the pits before climbing out of the car.
“I thought the hole was there,” Reddick said on the radio.
Reddick broke the tow links and uprights on the right side of his car, forcing him out of the race. He will finish 36th of 37 cars after Austin Dillon wrecked late in the first stage after getting hit in the rear bumper by Daniel Hemric.
“You’ve got to be aggressive on restarts,” Reddick said to reporters after being checked out of the infield care center. “Just being myself on mile-and-a-half (tracks), being aggressive. Then I realized it was too late. … Being conservative would’ve avoided the incident.”
Reddick won the first stage of Sunday’s race, but will go into the next race at Homestead-Miami Speedway below the cutline in the playoff standings.
Ryan Blaney, who started last after a crash in practice, suffered damage to the right side after slamming the wall trying to avoid Keselowski’s car, which was sliding up the front stretch while out of control. He fears to have tow-link damage or other damage to inner-workings of the No. 12 Team Penske Ford.
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