{"id":38978,"date":"2022-05-21T18:29:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T23:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/?p=38978"},"modified":"2022-05-21T18:29:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T23:29:42","slug":"tyler-reddick-overcomes-caution-riddled-nascar-xfinity-series-race-at-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/21\/tyler-reddick-overcomes-caution-riddled-nascar-xfinity-series-race-at-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Reddick overcomes caution-riddled NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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May 21, 2022; Fort Worth, Texas, USA; NASCAR Xfinity Series drivers Josh Berry (8), Matt Mills (5), Josh Williams (78) and Ty Gibbs (54) wreck during the SRS Distribution 250 at Texas Motor Speedway in Forth Worth, Texas. Michael C. Johnson<\/p><\/div>\n

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FORT WORTH, Texas \u2013 A wreck-free first stage in the NASCAR SRS Distribution 250<\/a> was deceiving, as car debris continuously filled the track, keeping fans in their seats a bit longer than expected. <\/span><\/p>\n

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May 21, 2022; Fort Worth, Texas, USA; NASCAR Xfinity Series drivers Anthony Alfredo (23), Alex Labbe (36) and Ryan Ellis (44) wreck on the front straight during the SRS Distribution 250 at Texas Motor Speedway in Forth Worth, Texas. Michael C. Johnson<\/p><\/div>\n

There were 11 cautions for 62 laps Saturday afternoon, the second-most at Texas Motor Speedway for XFinity races, and Cup regular Tyler Reddick<\/a> worked his way to Victory Lane for the first time at TMS. He had two prior top-10 finishes in six races at the Texas track. <\/span><\/p>\n

Reddick, who notched his 10th career Xfinity Series victory, said he expected lots of collisions after Friday’s practice.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn practice, right before we qualified, I was joking with William [Byron]<\/a>,\u201d Reddick said. \u201cHe pretty much let me go in on turn three yesterday in practice, and I all but wrecked us both. I was like, \u2018Oh man, this is going to be a pretty tough race.\u2019\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

In the end, Byron, who hasn\u2019t raced in the Xfinity Series since 2017<\/a>, trailed the 2018<\/a> and 2019<\/a> series champ by 1.8 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n

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May 21, 2022; Fort Worth, Texas, USA; NASCAR Xfinity Series driver Myatt Snider (31) avoids debris during the SRS Distribution 250 at Texas Motor Speedway in Forth Worth, Texas. Michael C. Johnson<\/p><\/div>\n

JR Motorsports Racing<\/span><\/a> suffered the worst from the incidents, as the group had a shot to fill the top-five of the standings. Pole-sitter and first stage winner Noah Gragson led the first 22 laps and 33 overall, but collided with the wall on the eighth restart of the day following teammate Josh Berry getting sideways in the front of the field. <\/span><\/p>\n

Gragson failed to finish the race while Berry managed a top-10 success. Sam Mayer and Justin Allgaier pulled in at the three and four spots to join Byron\u2019s runner-up conquest. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m really proud of JR Motorsports to have three of our Camaro\u2019s [in the] top five,\u201d Allgaier said. \u201cI really thought throughout the course of this race with the speed we all had, we could have easily had all five of our cars up there battling for the win.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI hate it for Josh and Noah that they didn’t get to compete for that opportunity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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May 21, 2022; Fort Worth, Texas, USA; NASCAR Xfinity Series drivers JJ Yeley (66) and Alex Labbe (36) spin during the SRS Distribution 250 at Texas Motor Speedway in Forth Worth, Texas. Michael C. Johnson<\/p><\/div>\n

Reddick, 26, benefitted from the expected chaotic day to snap a three-race streak where JR Motorsports drivers snagged the checkered flag. The Corning, CA. native also gave second-year team Big Machine Racing its first victory. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt was no surprise to see there was some chaos around us,\u201d Reddick said. \u201cBut yeah, there were a few big moments right in front of me that I don’t know how we got through, but thankfully we did.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

After Saturday\u2019s race and amid the challenges AJ Allmendinger, Ty Gibbs and Gragson faced, Allmendinger will take a 44-point lead over Gragson into next week\u2019s race at Charlotte Motor Speedway, the Alsco Uniforms 300 (1 p.m. ET on FS1, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Gibbs, the defending Charlotte race winner, trails by 52 points to Allmendinger.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  FORT WORTH, Texas \u2013 A wreck-free first stage in the NASCAR SRS Distribution 250 was deceiving, as car debris continuously filled the track, keeping fans in their seats a bit longer than expected.  There were 11 cautions for 62 laps Saturday afternoon, the second-most at Texas Motor Speedway for XFinity races, and Cup regular […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":38987,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[394,16,181,511,21,212],"class_list":["post-38978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nascar","category-texas-motor-speedway","tag-justin-allgaier","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-xfinity-series","tag-noah-gragson","tag-texas-motor-speedway","tag-william-byron"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/racedaysa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/AM1I4902a.jpg?fit=2329%2C1553&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7hzTZ-a8G","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38978"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38996,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38978\/revisions\/38996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racedaysa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}