Tyler Reddick got his third win of the season in a race at Texas Motor Speedway that NASCAR wants to forget as soon as possible.
Sunday's race at the 1.5-mile oval was nothing short of a mess. The tires weren't reliable, there was a rain delay of nearly an hour and passing wasn't plentiful. Teams were basically playing roulette with their tires and hoping they wouldn't be the next to crash because of a tire failure. Sunday's race set a Texas record with 17 cautions. Many of them were due to tire failures.
It was a bizarre officiating decision by NASCAR to let a driver who dumped another under caution to gain a position and penalize the driver he spun. At minimum, NASCAR should have allowed Hamlin to keep his spot in the top five. It could have also sent Byron to the end of the field on the lead lap for his maneuver.Byron admitted after the race that he intentionally ran into Hamlin, though he didn't mean to spin him.
No playoff driver has gotten a win over the first four races of the 10-race postseason. Reddick started the postseason among the 16 drivers in the playoffs but was eliminated after last week’s race at Bristol.
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