Tyler Reddick Texas Motor Speedway Post-Race

Tyler Reddick (@tylerreddick), driver of the No. 19 Draw-Tite Ford F-150, won the pole and scored a fourth place finish in the WinStar World Casino & Resort 350 Friday night at Texas Motor Speedway.  He also grabbed Sunoco Rookie of the Race honors for the seventh time in 2014.

 

Reddick won the Keystone Light 21 Means 21 Pole award with a lap of 29.677 seconds, 181.959 mph, his second pole in 15 career starts and his first at the 1.5 mile speedway.  Tyler backed up his strong qualifying run with a solid fourth place finish, his third top five of the season and third consecutive top 10.

 

Reddick ran inside the top 10 for much of the race and used two late-race cautions to gain positions and move inside the top five.  He was running 13th when the fifth caution slowed the race on lap 139.  Crew chief Doug Randolph called him to pit road for four tires on lap 140 and Reddick restarted 14th when the race went green on lap 142.  

 

Tyler began slicing his way through traffic when an accident on lap 147 pushed the race into a green-white-checkered overtime finish.  When the green waved on lap 150 Reddick again went to work, stacking traffic two and sometimes three-wide as he scrambled towards the front. The seventh and final caution came out on the final lap of the race and the field was frozen at the time of the yellow, with Reddick officially listed in fourth place.

 

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