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downs. He didn’t have another top-five until May at Chevy CAMARO SS
CREW CHIEF:
Dover and he waited another 14 races after that 9
to get his next top-five. But his Camaro came TO BE DETERMINED FEATURED DRIVERS
alive as the playoffs approached. He had eight OWNER:
top-10 efforts in the final 10 races.
RICHARD CHILDRESS RACING
“I think looking back, obviously going into
the playoffs, we look back and we just – well While there are no promises, Childress has two full-time
, I wouldn’t say we as a team, I was simply Cup series teams, while JR Motorsports has no plans to
just too aggressive and tore a lot of good expand to the upper tier.
race cars up, unfortunately,” Reddick said.
“But playoffs came around. We refocused, Reddick now has the opportunity to be the first driver
we honed in on what we had to do. I’ve got to to win consecutive Xfinity Series championships since
say the six practice sessions between the Round Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (2011-12).
of 12 and Round of 8, we weren’t ever really that
great. We were always kind of struggling with the guys Reddick started racing go-karts at 4. He ran in the
we were competing for the championship, and we were NASCAR Gander Outdoor Truck Series from 2013
always wondering how we were going to get speed in the to 2016, winning three times with 40 top-10s. His first
race and get the points we needed to advance to the next victory in the Xfinity Series came in 2017 at Kentucky in
round, and my team always worked really hard, especially the a part-time start for Chip Ganassi Racing.
seven weeks prior after practice to make our car better and to
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get ourselves in position to score points and survive.”

Reddick made the decision to leave JRM for one simple reason:
the opportunity to move up to the Monster Energy NASCAR
Cup Series. @TylerReddick @tyler_reddick

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