NASCAR CUP SERIES: COOK OUT SOUTHERN 500

August 31, 2025

Tyler Reddick

Pit Lane Interview

Q. Really solid day. Settle for second. You tried to reel in Chase in the end. All day long, felt like you and him. What was missing for you?

TYLER REDDICK: The one time we got ahead of him there, we were just a little too tight. He was able to get back by us, so...

Yeah, I think for our Pinnacle Financial Partners Camry, we were better than he was on long runs. He could fire off a whole lot better. I think that was the difference tonight. I could get close. Yeah, I know we had a long run there, but it just unfortunately seemed like the last run the balance wasn't quite as good as it has been the rest of the night on the long run.

All in all a really solid night for points in the Playoffs. Really want to win here. It's frustrating to finish second, going for it, like I did last spring, doing the wrong thing, ending our day and finishing 36th.

Yeah, I wish I could have been just a little bit closer. When I dove off in there, I was already sideways. I learned from last spring that that doesn't work. Yeah, a good solid day, but hopefully one day we'll win here at Darlington.

Q. What kind of word of comfort with Michael Jordan?

TYLER REDDICK: It's a long race when you're in the Southern 500. I had pretty much forgotten that me and Barry got together on the first lap. We had all sorts of issues we had to correct on the first pit stop. Lost some time there. Pretty much from that point forward, our car was much more manageable. Looking at it, I know it's got a hole in the left side on the rocker panel. Probably losing performance there. Maybe some of our fire-off speed.

This race could have been disastrous on lap one. We survived that. We scored a lot of stage points, almost won the Southern 500. We'll turn these second-place finishes into a victory one day.