Tyler Reddick won Sunday’s Daytona 500 after a last-lap pass on Chase Elliott in the race’s closing seconds.
Reddick had help from 23XI Racing teammate Riley Herbst on the exit of turn four and maneuvered around Chase Elliott to score the ninth win of his NASCAR Cup Series career.
Reddick cried tears of joy as he rode around Daytona International Speedway on the cooldown lap. He led only the final lap of Sunday’s 200-lap race.
The win is Reddick’s first since Homestead in 2024.
“Last year was really hard for all of us, hard for me,” Reddick told Fox Sports. “When you’re a Cup driver and you get to this level and drive for Michael Jordan, it’s expected that you win every year. Just speechless. I didn’t know if I’d ever win this race. It’s surreal, honestly. Something about today just felt right.”
Notable results
Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Joey Logano, Elliott and Brad Keselowski rounded out the top five, with Zane Smith, Chris Buescher, Herbst, Josh Berry and Stage 2 winner Bubba Wallace completing the top-10.
Other notable finishers include two-time Daytona 500 winner William Byron in 12th, polesitter Kyle Busch in 15th, defending Cup Series champion Kyle Larson in 16th, Carson Hocevar in 19th and Ryan Blaney in 27th.
Hocevar led at the white flag but was spun going into turn one.
A 17-car crash in the closing laps of Stage 2 took out Justin Allgaier, Alex Bowman and Todd Gilliland after Allgaier threw a late, ill-fated block on Denny Hamlin in the tri-oval. With nine laps to go, Hamlin and Christopher Bell crashed in the tri-oval.
Sunday’s race set a record with 23 different leaders, the most ever in a Daytona 500.