NASCAR CUP SERIES: DAYTONA 500

February 16, 2025

Tyler Reddick

Pit Lane Interview

Q. Tyler Reddick comes down second in the Daytona 500. Talk about the chaos you saw and how the hole opened up for you.

TYLER REDDICK: Yeah, with that restart with 15 to go, we kind of checked up in the middle and ended up further back than we wanted to be. We didn't really want to, we ducked out of it hoping for the caution. We got it. But we were still lined up 16th there on the green-white-checkered. When they started to spin on the dogleg, I kind of jumped out of line thinking that was going to be it, and we just kept going.

I knew that me and the 24 had a good run and they were throwing big blocks, and when they started spinning on the inside and I had a run on the 24, I thought, man, if I can just make it through on the 11 and not scrub my speed, I would have had at least an opportunity to do something.

All in all, I never really finished a race here unless it was 40 laps down, so I'll take second. We wanted to get a good start to the year, and we scored a lot of points today. So I'm really happy with everyone's effort on this 45 Nasty Beast Toyota Camry.