Overview
- Starting from pole at COTA, Tyler Reddick led 58 of 95 laps and beat Shane van Gisbergen by 3.944 seconds.
- He is the first Cup driver to win the season’s opening three races, and 23XI is the first team to sweep the first three since Petty Enterprises in 1963.
- The COTA result marked Reddick’s 11th career Cup win and his second at the circuit, snapping van Gisbergen’s five-race road-course streak.
- Michael Jordan praised the program and credited co-owner Denny Hamlin for assembling the group, with Jordan planning to attend Phoenix as Reddick pursues four in a row.
- The surge follows a December 2025 antitrust settlement that secured permanent charters for teams, and Reddick holds a roughly 70-point cushion over teammate Bubba Wallace.