Tyler A. Reddick

[Greg]

The other three didn't have to deal with any points resetting.

 

[Turtle84]

The other three didn't have to deal with any points resetting.

I am already cringing at the inevitable reset, and if this continues for Reddick, let's just hypothetical say 10 or 12 win season before the 26, Nascar better hope he does win it alah' Martin Truex Jr. 78 Furniture Row car. A 25 point head-start is nothing in 10 races, all it would take is 1 bad race.

It's all been said before hashed and re-hashed, so not trying to gang up or hammer the points system too much here, but Nascar has altered legacies with this stuff. Jeff Gordon should have more championships than he does based on consistency, 48 JJ 7-time should probably be 5-time (still kicked everybody's ass in that timeframe), Carl Edwards should have at least 1 championship if not more to his credit (basically made him throw in the towel). This is why I look at career win totals and other ancillary statistics like laps led which signals domination versus championships now.

There is a reason why fans campaigned so hard for full season points. It is the most just way to crown a champion. And this was bound to come up again.

Hopefully we can get all the way there on that change in the future.

 

[jaqua19]

I am already cringing at the inevitable reset, and if this continues for Reddick, let's just hypothetical say 10 or 12 win season before the 26, Nascar better hope he does win it alah' Martin Truex Jr. 78 Furniture Row car. A 25 point head-start is nothing in 10 races, all it would take is 1 bad race.

It's all been said before hashed and re-hashed, so not trying to gang up or hammer the points system too much here, but Nascar has altered legacies with this stuff. Jeff Gordon should have more championships than he does based on consistency, 48 JJ 7-time should probably be 5-time (still kicked everybody's ass in that timeframe), Carl Edwards should have at least 1 championship if not more to his credit (basically made him throw in the towel). This is why I look at career win totals and other ancillary statistics like laps led which signals domination versus championships now.

There is a reason why fans campaigned so hard for full season points. It is the most just way to crown a champion. And this was bound to come up again.

Hopefully we can get all the way there on that change in the future.

10-12 wins before race 27 is outrageous and not happening.

If it does, he should steamroll the field in the chase.

 

[Goggles Paisano]

Richard Petty's 27 wins out of 48 races in 1967 is something that will not be beaten. It is a crazy number of wins. I can definitely see though at the pace Reddick is going to more than double the amount he already has in 5 before the end of the season. The way the Toyota cars are dominating at the moment and really 23Xl and how well they are doing as a team Reddick is a force week to week.

 

[Turtle84]

10-12 wins before race 27 is outrageous and not happening.

If it does, he should steamroll the field in the chase.

Law of averages. If it does, qualifies it as a possibility, it's sports and he's on pace for a 20 win season currently, slice that in half. If he uses up all of the run good in the first 26, a cool down is coming at some point.

It is outrageous, so is 5 wins in 9 races. Early success in a season does not guarantee it in the end quarter after a scoreboard reset, thus full season points.

 

[StandOnIt]

This isn't rocket science. Reddick is driving a car that has an advantage over the field right now. Kyle Busch said RCR had a car advantage when he signed on after Reddick who had the same car advantage at RCR left. Nascar found it, disallowed it and RCR is floundering.

Right now it looks like Nascar isn't doing squat about the yota's advantage OR it's perfectly legal? BTW Nascar didn't take any cars back to the R&D center after Kansas. That in itself is unusual and it doesn't look good when the average fan has questions about the unusual advantage the Toyotas had.

So some will go on about how magical is it for a driver who couldn't win a race last year to suddenly, maybe he took a pill, or maybe he had winning therapy tapes playing when he slept over the off season, or maybe he couldn't press the throttle to the floor last year, suddenly wins all these races? You really think Reddick suddenly got that better virtually overnight?

 

[Turtle84]

 

[Daytripper]

This isn't rocket science. Reddick is driving a car that has an advantage over the field right now. Kyle Busch said RCR had a car advantage when he signed on after Reddick who had the same car advantage at RCR left. Nascar found it, disallowed it and RCR is floundering.

Right now it looks like Nascar isn't doing squat about the yota's advantage OR it's perfectly legal? BTW Nascar didn't take any cars back to the R&D center after Kansas. That in itself is unusual and it doesn't look good when the average fan has questions about the unusual advantage the Toyotas had.

So some will go on about how magical is it for a driver who couldn't win a race last year to suddenly, maybe he took a pill, or maybe he had winning therapy tapes playing when he slept over the off season, or maybe he couldn't press the throttle to the floor last year, suddenly wins all these races? You really think Reddick suddenly got that better virtually overnight?

So how come he is the only Toyota driver having such an exceptional year? Bubba is driving the same cars as Reddick, why isn't he doing better?

 

[StandOnIt]

So how come he is the only Toyota driver having such an exceptional year? Bubba is driving the same cars as Reddick, why isn't he doing better?

C'mon man, you know the answers to that one. It's two fold. 1. Every car in an organization isn't the same. 2. All things being equal Reddick is a little better driver than Wallace.

 

[Daytripper]

C'mon man, you know the answers to that one. It's two fold. 1. Every car in an organization isn't the same. 2. All things being equal Reddick is a little better driver than Wallace.

I agree Reddick is a better driver but not as much better as he is performing, and I thought with the nexgen car teammates basically share cars as they get rotated or something along those lines?

 

[WhiningSmoke]

Tyler B. Reddick is just getting lucky time and time again. He got lucky at the plate tracks, had an obvious HP advantage at COTA, and got lucky again at Vegas. The only one he’s won on pure merit is Darlington, and even then I’m not convinced that car didn’t get cheated up with the electrical issues he was having. He’s only led 189 laps.

I eat very healthy food typically. Haven’t eaten McDonald’s in years. If Reddick wins the championship I’ll eat 10 Big Macs on stream in one sitting.

 

[StandOnIt]

I agree Reddick is a better driver but not as much better as he is performing, and I thought with the nexgen car teammates basically share cars as they get rotated or something along those lines?

Wallace was fast at Kansas, but he was all over the place at Kansas I thought. At one time he was turning laps as fast as the leader. I think they pretty much keep the same car. I believe it is 6 cars per team?

 

[Turtle84]

"Me to the guy in front of me at the Chick-Fil-A drive thru" -credit to @nascarcasm

 

[aunty dive]

I agree Reddick is a better driver but not as much better as he is performing, and I thought with the nexgen car teammates basically share cars as they get rotated or something along those lines?

Wallace was fast at Kansas, but he was all over the place at Kansas I thought. At one time he was turning laps as fast as the leader. I think they pretty much keep the same car. I believe it is 6 cars per team?

Each chartered team is limited to a 7 car “fleet”. No switching cars among team-mates. New chassis can be put into service at the expense of one currently in use.

 

[StandOnIt]

I think at least part of the golden horseshoe is at play here. The first stint Reddick is having fits with the right front tire and they are scrambling to figure it out. After that I believe he radios in after he hits the wall and his steering wheel is knocked off crooked. Then later on he says he hit the wall soft this time, then later on after that he screams that he has run out of gas, they tell him to turn on pump #2. The last restart he ping pongs off of Hamlin after contact and slides in to Bell taking him out of the race. Reddick loses all kinds of positions after all of that but then like a scalded dog he comes across the finish line in first.

 

[aunty dive]

^ It wasn’t pretty.

It doesn’t have to be.

 

[JJ_14]

This isn't rocket science. Reddick is driving a car that has an advantage over the field right now. Kyle Busch said RCR had a car advantage when he signed on after Reddick who had the same car advantage at RCR left. Nascar found it, disallowed it and RCR is floundering.

Right now it looks like Nascar isn't doing squat about the yota's advantage OR it's perfectly legal? BTW Nascar didn't take any cars back to the R&D center after Kansas. That in itself is unusual and it doesn't look good when the average fan has questions about the unusual advantage the Toyotas had.

So some will go on about how magical is it for a driver who couldn't win a race last year to suddenly, maybe he took a pill, or maybe he had winning therapy tapes playing when he slept over the off season, or maybe he couldn't press the throttle to the floor last year, suddenly wins all these races? You really think Reddick suddenly got that better virtually overnight?

I see what you did there.

 

[hmmm298]

So some will go on about how magical is it for a driver who couldn't win a race last year to suddenly, maybe he took a pill, or maybe he had winning therapy tapes playing when he slept over the off season, or maybe he couldn't press the throttle to the floor last year, suddenly wins all these races? You really think Reddick suddenly got that better virtually overnight?

Hey, he is kind of short. It's quite possible he just now figured out the tricot fully reach the pedals. Good observation.