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Tyler Reddick clinched the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series Regular Season Championship after Sunday’s 10th-place finish in the Southern 500 regular-season finale at Darlington Raceway. The No. 45 Toyota ended the night just one point ahead of rival Kyle Larson to score the triumph.
The title is Reddick’s first since NASCAR began recognizing the leading points scorer at regular season‘s end in 2017, when Joe Gibbs Racing driver Martin Truex Jr. claimed the inaugural championship. That momentum carried Truex to his first NASCAR Cup Series Championship through a masterful postseason in which he won four of the final 10 races, including the title race.
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“Yeah, it’s just a testament to all the hard work that everyone at 23XI, here at the race track, week in and week out, back at Airspeed, puts into this,” Reddick said. “We’re on Year 4 of their goals, right? It’s just been really, really fun the last two years to be a part of this process, building up to where we want to be.”
Reddick, driver of the No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota, is a two-time winner in 2024, collecting checkered flags at Talladega Superspeedway and Michigan International Speedway. Reddick’s 11 top fives and 18 top-10 finishes are the most in the series after 26 races in 2024.
Larson, the 2021 Cup Series champion, led a dominant 263 of 367 laps on Sunday night, sweeping stage victories and finished fourth, but Reddick’s 17-point margin entering the day provided just enough cushion to allow Reddick to come out on top with a 10th-place run by the checkered flag. Chase Elliott, the 2020 series champion, finished 11th, one spot behind Reddick.
As the Regular Season Champion, Reddick receives a bonus of 15 playoff points that will carry through each round of the NASCAR Playoffs to which he advances.
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