KANSAS CITY – Tyler Reddick, of 23XI Racing made three-wide move in the Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas to win in NASCAR overtime.
The Race extended one lap past its scheduled 267-lap distance due to a green-white-checkered finish.
Reddick then held off his team owner, Denny Hamlin, by 0.327 seconds to claim the victory which locks him into the second round of the playoffs. Regular season champion Martin Truex Jr., who crashed out early and finished last, now sits seven points below the cut-line.
The win is Reddick’s second of the 2023 season and fifth of his career.
There were nine caution periods for a total of 45 laps. Twenty-four of the 36 drivers in the race finished on the lead lap.
Stage 1 Winner: Kyle Larson of Hendrick Motorsports (Chevrolet)
Stage 2 Winner: Brad Keselowski of RFK Racing (Ford)
SHR Race Finish:
- Kevin Harvick (Started 20th, Finished 11th / Running, completed 268 of 268 laps)
- Aric Almirola (Started 25th, Finished 17th / Running, completed 268 of 268 laps)
- Ryan Preece (Started 28th, Finished 18th / Running, completed 268 of 268 laps)
- Chase Briscoe (Started 26th, Finished 19th / Running, completed 268 of 268 laps)
SHR Points:
- Kevin Harvick (12th with 2,063 points, seven points ahead of the top-12 cutoff)
- Aric Almirola (23rd with 491 points)
- Ryan Preece (27th with 457 points)
- Chase Briscoe (30th with 373 points)
Playoff Standings (with one race to go before Round of 12):
- Kyle Larson (2,117 points) 1 win
- Tyler Reddick (2,111 points) 1 win
- Denny Hamlin (2,105 points) +49 points
- William Byron (2,097 points) +41 points
- Brad Keselowski (2,089 points) +33 points
- Ryan Blaney (2,081 points) +25 points
- Kyle Busch (2,080 points) +24 points
- Ross Chastain (2,074 points) +18 points
- Chris Buescher (2,069 points) +13 points
- Christopher Bell (2,069 points) +13 points
- Joey Logano (2,068 points) +12 points
- Kevin Harvick (2,063 points) +7 points
- Martin Truex Jr. (2,056 points) -7 points
- Bubba Wallace (2,044 points) -19 points
- Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (2,041 points) -22 points
- Michael McDowell (2,023 points) -40 points
Kevin Harvick is the only driver to have competed in every NASCAR Cup Series race at Kansas, a total of 36.
He finished 10th in Stage 1 to earn one bonus point and fourth in Stage 2 to earn seven more bonus points.
This was Almirola’s third straight finish of 17th or better. He finished third Aug. 26 at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway and 14th last Sunday at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway.
“The car was a handful today,” saidl Aric Almirola, driver of the No. 10 Smithfield/Whataburger Ford Mustang. “Battled a really tight Ford Mustang all day and just couldn’t turn the corners. For a while I could race really well on a restart for about three laps and then it just built extremely tight. The pit crew got us some track position again this weekend, but we couldn’t keep up with it on the long runs. We knew what we had coming in today and improved a lot on it. Excited to go to Bristol. We brought a really fast car there last year.”
He led once for three laps to increase his laps-led total at Kansas to 75.
This was Briscoe’s second straight top-20. He finished 15th at Darlington.
“For us, this place has been a huge struggle, but I felt like we made a lot of gains today,” said Chase Briscoe, driver of the No. 14 Mahindra Tractors Ford Mustang. “We got our car to where it could at least run 15th instead of struggling to run 25th. Thought we passed a lot of cars. Got up to 13th or so, and then our engine shut off. That put us a lap down and we just had to keep fighting all day long after that. But we made our car way better, which was encouraging. We still have a long way to go whenever it comes to Kansas. Hopefully, we can just continue to build on that.”
Next Up:
The next event on the NASCAR Cup Series schedule is the Bass Pro Shops Night Race on Saturday, Sept. 16 at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway. The third race in the 10-race NASCAR Playoffs starts at 7:30 p.m. EDT with live coverage provided by USA and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.
