{"id":105344,"date":"2026-03-27T12:18:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=105344"},"modified":"2026-03-27T12:18:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T19:18:24","slug":"reddick-notches-number-four-at-darlington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/reddick-notches-number-four-at-darlington\/","title":{"rendered":"Reddick Notches Number Four at Darlington"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"105376\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/reddick-notches-number-four-at-darlington\/images-38-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/images-38-1.jpeg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,664\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"images (38) (1)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/images-38-1-300x199.jpeg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/images-38-1.jpeg\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-105376 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/images-38-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Reddick Notches Number Four at Darlington\" width=\"1000\" height=\"664\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/images-38-1.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/images-38-1-300x199.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/images-38-1-768x510.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/h2>\r\n<h2><strong>Despite early issues, Reddick delivers at one of the series&#8217; most challenging ovals.<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n<p>Tyler Reddick has scored his fourth victory of the season, and we&#8217;re only six races in. He&#8217;s won at a superspeedway, a road course, and arguably the toughest oval on the schedule &#8211; Darlington.<br \/><br \/>While fans of other drivers may be miffed that their favorite hasn&#8217;t won yet, it&#8217;s impressive to watch a dominant driver in a dominant car show their skills off week in and week out. We&#8217;re eager to see how the 23XI crew performs at short tracks and intermediates this season as well &#8211; they&#8217;ve proven unequivocally that they&#8217;re fast everywhere else. The Toyotas are doing great overall, with all three teams performing well &#8211; but it&#8217;s clear that 23XI is the fastest of the bunch.<br \/><br \/>Brad Keselowski deserves recognition as well for an impressive run despite a broken leg sustained during the offseason. Keselowski says it hurts, but he&#8217;s comfortable once he&#8217;s in the car. That much is obvious from his runner-up finish.<\/p>\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NASCAR Cup Series Highlights | 2026 Darlington Raceway\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_oz2J1uO3Is?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n<p><br \/>Reddick himself fought some adversity, with a failing battery and a bad pit stop putting him behind the eight ball early. Reddick and his teammate Bubba Wallace both started on the front row, but a shunt from team owner Denny Hamlin ruined Wallace&#8217;s chance for a good finish.<br \/><br \/>Reddick&#8217;s ability to conserve his tires paid dividends, however. He was able to drive more laps on old tires without losing as much time at a track known for eating tires like potato chips. Smooth driving and economical steering inputs made up for the bad pit stop, while careful battery management mitigated what could have been a much larger issue. Reddick eschewed his cool suit, opting to sweat it out in the literal sense. It was worth it.<br \/><br \/>Regardless of the cool suit situation, Reddick looks composed and calm out on the track. He demonstrates impeccable racecraft and maturity at a level that belies the fact that a third of his career wins have come since February.\u00a0Next Sunday, the series heads to Martinsville &#8211; and we&#8217;ll finally get to see how those bad fast 23XI cars behave at a short track.<\/p>\r\n<p><em>Photo: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Despite early issues, Reddick delivers at one of the series&#8217; most challenging ovals.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":105374,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[3424,3470],"tags":[127],"class_list":["post-105344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nascar","category-news","tag-nascar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/images-38.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-rp6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105344"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105378,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105344\/revisions\/105378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}