Reddick avoids wreck, claims Talladega win
Tyler Reddick picked the right spot, drove through a major wreck coming to the checkers, and won the GEICO 500 Sunday afternoon on the high banks of Talladega Superspeedway in Talladega, Alabama.
Running fifth off the 2.66-mile superspeedway’s final turn, Reddick kept his No. 45 Camry on the high side as the front group roared toward the stripe.
Meanwhile up front, leader Michael McDowell came down to block second-place racer Brad Keselowski.
McDowell was turned up to the frontstretch wall after contact and Keselowski slowed, allowing Reddick to keep his foot in the gas and zoom on to his first win this season as the field slid and crashed behind him.
Reddick beat Keselowski by 0.208 seconds for his sixth career win in 156 starts and first at Talladega. 23XI Racing – owned by Michael Jordan – enjoyed the win of Reddick’s No. 45.
It was also Toyota’s first win at the Alabama superspeedway since 2021.
The final top-finishers were Noah Gragson, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Alex Bowman.
LONG BEACH, Calif. -- As only Scott Dixon seemingly can, the Chip Ganassi Racing driver drove a masterclass of a fuel save to the lead in Sunday's Grand Prix of Long Beach, and then held off a late-race blitz from Josef Newgarden to secure win No. 57 of his career -- moving the six-time champion 10 wins from A.J. Foyt's alltime IndyCar mark.
To do so, though, Dixon got help from an unpenalized bump from Colton Herta into the back of Newgarden with under 10 laps to go that scrambled the top-5 and helped the CGR veteran maintain his cushion to the end.
With eight laps to go and Newgarden inching within just a couple tenths of the eventual race-winner, runner-up Herta slid into the back of the No. 2 Chevy in the middle of the hairpin leading into the front-straight.
The contact sent Newgarden into anti-stall mode, opening him up to approaches from Herta and Alex Palou, before the Penske driver got back moving again. Newgarden would go on to finish 4th, unable to recover from the bump. On the radio, Newgarden and his strategist (and Team Penske president) Tim Cindric were at a loss for words on how Herta wasn't called for an avoidable contact penalty for the move.