Even after a late spin from Cody Ware — the race’s only caution for incident — produced an overtime finish, that was still not enough to keep Tyler Reddick from joining some exclusive company after picking up his fifth win in the season’s first nine races on Sunday at Kansas.
Here are four takeaways from the AdventHealth 400:
Tyler Reddick’s hot start continues
Reddick is the first driver since Dale Earnhardt (1987) to win five of the first nine races and only the fourth driver to accomplish the feat (Richard Petty, Cale Yarborough, Earnhardt), per the Fox broadcast.
Reddick’s advantage on Sunday came by pitting under green six laps later than Denny Hamlin — who led a race-high 131 laps — which gave him some fresher tires in the closing laps. While he overtook Hamlin for the lead with 10 laps to go, he brushed the wall after running out of fuel with three laps remaining.
As Reddick tried to mount one last charge, Ware’s spin brought the caution out as Hamlin approached the exit of Turn 4 coming to the white flag. Reddick overtook Kyle Larson going into Turn 3 on the final lap of the OT finish and held on to win by 0.118 seconds for his fifth win of the season, second at Kansas and 13th of his career.