Tyler Reddick: NASCAR Cup playoffs 2025 preview
For the fifth straight season, Tyler Reddick has qualified for the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs.
But 2025 marks the first time since 2021 the Corning, California driver is winless entering the postseason.
Since joining 23XI Racing in 2023, Reddick has amassed five of his eight career wins with the organization, including a Championship 4 appearance last year.
Yet, Reddick enters the playoffs on a 28-race winless skid, dating back to his clutch victory at Homestead-Miami Speedway in October to advance to the championship round as a contender.
“The speed has been there at times,” Reddick said. “We just haven’t executed and capitalized. And basically how (Daytona) just encapsulates what this year has been like for us, just time and time again not capitalizing and not taking advantage of strong Toyota Camrys.
“And we’re going to have to clean it up, and we’re going to have to be forced to do that in the middle of the playoffs.”
Reddick and Alex Bowman are the lone two drivers without a win among the playoff field leaving Daytona.
Reddick starts the postseason 14th on the playoff grid, one point behind 12th-place Joey Logano entering the first race of the playoffs at Darlington.
Stats through 26 races
- 1 pole
- 0 wins
- 5 Top-5 finishes
- 9 Top-10 finishes
- 153 laps led
The numbers may not mirror his career year of 2024, but Reddick has shown speed throughout the season.
Reddick opened the season with a runner-up finish in the Daytona 500, posted a third-place finish at Austin in the third race of the year, and never dropped below seventh in points during the regular season.
Reddick has won at two of the tracks featured in the playoffs; Kansas (Round of 12 track this year), Talladega (Round of 8).
The 29-year-old driver will have 10 more chances to extend his streak of winning at least one race per year to four.
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Dominic Aragon is currently the editor-in-chief for The Racing Experts.
From Grants, New Mexico, USA, Aragon started watching NASCAR in 2004 and has been covering the sport since 2009. Aragon is a 2012 graduate of Grants High School and a May 2016 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism. Aragon has worked in local and national media, as a musician, and an educator. He is co-author of the 2024 book "All of It: Daytona 500 Champion Tells the Rest of the Story" with racer Geoff Bodine.
Aragon, his wife Feliz, and son Christopher currently reside in Grants, New Mexico, USA.
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