Tyler Reddick Makes Brutally Honest Admission and Asserts the ‘Daytona 500 Lost Its Allure’

23XI Racing star driver Tyler Reddick has admitted that the iconic Daytona 500 has lost its attraction due to drop in race quality.

Tyler Reddick Makes Brutally Honest Admission and Asserts the ‘Daytona 500 Lost Its Allure’

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The Daytona 500 is arguably the biggest event in the NASCAR Cup Schedule, always getting the most views and rating, as well giving fans one of the most entertaining wins ever. Many legends are were once ready to give up Cup title for a 500 win, but now it doesn’t seem to be the case, as 23XI Racing driver Tyler Reddick asserted, the race has lost its appeal.

In the most recent episode of the Door Bumper Clear podcast, that is hosted by NASCAR legend Tommy Baldwin and Bubba Wallace’s spotter Freddie Kraft, Tyler Reddick shared his thoughts on the drop in Daytona 500’s pull. The discussion started with Kraft asking the No:45 Toyota driver how the drivers feel about the race and its elite status at the moment.

Do you feel like the Daytona 500 has lost a little bit of its allure from a driver’s standpoint—does it mean less now the way we race versus maybe when you started, like your first couple of years in the 500?

Freddie Kraft asked Tyler Reddick on Door Bumper Clear podcast.

The two times Xfinity Series champion was brutally honest in his response to the Kraft. He admitted that he hates to even address the question, considering how high everyone in the community rates the event. But the truth sometimes is bitter and the Great American race has lost its allure considering how the races are played out now.

I hate to even answer that question, but if I’m being honest, yes, for me it has lost some of it because of the way the racing plays out.

Tyler Reddick responded.

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Further talking about the same topic, Kraft addressed Baldwin explaining to how the dynamic of the Daytona 500 weakened has changed over the years. He pointed out that in the past the racers coming into the weekend with real speed got a genuine shot at win, now that’s not the case and pit execution as well as fuel saving is dictating the results.

Tyler Reddick
Tyler Reddick (via Motorsport.com)

I mean, Tommy, you’ve won the Daytona 500 before, so you know what I mean. I felt like before this car, on Thursday I’d think, “I’ve got a shot to win the Daytona 500,” and you’d go into Sunday knowing it really didn’t matter—as long as we were there at the end, we had a shot. Now it’s like, I don’t know, we’ll see what happens on the last pit stop.

Freddie Kraft said.

In response to the comment from his teammate’s spotter, Tyler Reddick explained how things played out exactly the same as Kraft said for him in this season’s Daytona 500. He pointed out that he went from 18 to P2 on the last lap just because everyone ahead of his him wrecked, which is something that been happening too many times for contort in the current era.

That’s crazy. Like this year again, on the green-white-checkered or whatever it was at the end, I was running 18th on the last lap, they all crashed, and I finished second. I did nothing to get to second place.

Tyler Reddick responded.

The comments from the 23XI Racing star drivers seems pretty rational and something NASCAR should taken into account. Wrecks and crashes shouldn’t always be the defining feature of the sport; it should be pure race craft. It would be interesting if the sanctioning body is going to make change to the event to get to back to elite tier is deserves to be in.

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