As Michael Jordan watches, Tyler Reddick wins for the fifth time in nine NASCAR Cup Series races

Tyler Reddick wins when Michael Jordan shows up. OK, it’s not a hard and fast rule. But Sunday’s race at Kansas Speedway was the sixth time Jordan, the co-owner of 23XI Racing has been in at the track.

And Reddick scored his fifth win in nine races overall and fifth in six races that Jordan has attended when he passed Kyle Larson on the final lap of an overtime finish. “I mean, you can’t really discredit that,” Reddick said of his success when Jordan is at the track. “I mean, it’s been pretty successful.

I think the only one we didn’t win for him was Phoenix. ” Reddick needed a late caution on Sunday after he seemed destined to lose to his other 23XI Racing co-owner Denny Hamlin. Reddick got into the wall while racing Hamlin for the lead with less than two laps to go.

But as Reddick’s car slid into the wall, Cody Ware spun in front of them to bring out the caution before Hamlin and Reddick took the white flag. “I mean, obviously it’s not winning,” Hamlin said when asked about his frustration after the race. “It’s Cody Ware, six laps down wrecking.