Tyler Reddick Wins Kansas in Overtime Thriller

Tyler Reddick won the NASCAR Cup Series race at Kansas Speedway on Sunday, emerging from a race whose only two cautions were for the scheduled stage breaks. His No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota emerged victorious after a dramatic overtime restart, the first natural caution of the day.

Initially it seemed Kyle Larson might steal the win away from Reddick and Denny Hamlin. The No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet surged to the lead while Hamlin, Reddick, and Christopher Bell made contact and lost momentum. Reddick caught up to Larson on the back straightaway, and the two briefly made contact. In the final corners Reddick executed a perfect slide job pass to shut the door on Larson’s shot at the win.

“Just really blessed with the late caution,” Reddick reflected after the race. “How about that, was that nuts or what? I couldn’t believe it.”

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With his Kansas victory, Reddick now has five wins in the 2026 Cup Series season. No other driver this year has won more than once, and after nine races Reddick has won more races than he’s lost. He’s now the first driver to win five of the first nine races in a season since Dale Earnhardt in 1987.

“I’m racing against Denny [Hamlin], so I really wanted to beat him because I know we’re gonna talk a lot of trash a little bit later,” added 23XI Racing co-owner Michael Jordan. “It was a good race. When we started running out of fuel I didn’t know what was happening. But 23XI, all the guys drove well today. We finished I think all cars in the top 15. So that says a lot about the program, and this kid’s on fire.”

Larson and Hamlin Left Wanting

Kyle Larson led the second most laps Sunday and nabbed ten points in Stage 2. His No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet was the quickest outside the Toyota camp, but he had to settle for second place.

“When it all worked out like that I was like, ‘Oh great, clean air!’ and then I went into [Turn] 3 and 4 and I was plowing,” Larson said. “I was nervous, and then I can tell he had a huge run on me from behind.”

During Sunday’s race, Hamlin surpassed Kevin Harvick to become the driver with the most laps led in the history of Kansas Speedway. He won the race as a team owner, but he might’ve won as a driver instead if Cody Ware hadn’t spun with two laps to go. Hamlin eventually finished fourth after the chaotic final restart.

“It’s Cody Ware six laps down wrecking,” Denny Hamlin said about the consequential final caution. “I fell for the same move that the No. 5 got me a couple years ago when I was on the inside. So I just gotta learn from those mistakes that I’m making and not executing those last few laps.”

Toyota Dominance

Toyota as a whole accounted for half of the top ten finishers in Sunday’s AdventHealth 400. Reddick led their camp, followed by the Joe Gibbs Racing duo of Chase Briscoe and Denny Hamlin in third and fourth. 23XI Racing’s Bubba Wallace placed fifth, while last week’s winner Ty Gibbs came home ninth.

Hendrick Motorsports accounted for all three of Chevrolet’s top-ten finishers: Larson finished second followed by William Byron in seventh and Chase Elliott in eighth. RFK Racing brought home a pair of top-tens for Ford, with Brad Keselowski rallying to sixth and Chris Buescher settling in for a tenth-place run.

Points Outlook

Tyler Reddick expanded his commanding points lead to 105 points over second-place Denny Hamlin, who overtook 24th-place finisher Ryan Blaney. Ty Gibbs remains fourth in the standings, followed by Kyle Larson in fifth.

Chase Briscoe secured a spot in the Chase for the first time this season thanks to a third-place run at Kansas. Shane van Gisbergen dropped from 16th to 18th in the points, leaving Trackhouse Racing with no drivers poised to compete for a championship as things currently stand.

The final Chase spot presently belongs to Daniel Suárez, who sits 13 points above Austin Cindric. Shane van Gisbergen is 32 points back, with Michael McDowell following at a 36-point deficit.

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