Tyler Reddick describes his day after battling an illness inside the race car to comeback and win the Regular Season Championship.
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00:00Tyler Reddick comes home in the 10th position, but more importantly, gets the regular season
00:06championship by a single point.
00:08Before we dive into what that means for the team, it was a heck of a day for you.
00:12You were battling some illness in the race car.
00:14How in the world did you maintain the focus needed to get that regular season championship?
00:18I don't know if I did, honestly.
00:23Things fell our way there at the end.
00:24Yeah, I don't know.
00:27I started the day off feeling really, really good and just, you know, kind of trying to
00:32take my time to get around Bubba and him and the 5 kind of jumped us on that first cycle.
00:37And I thought we were, you know, long race, we have plenty of time, plenty capable and
00:41just, man, I mean, by the end of stage one, I couldn't really focus on what to tell the
00:46guys to do on our protect toward Camry.
00:49So it was just, it was frustrating, man.
00:51We, you know, we had that buffer over the 5 and I just watched it disappear all day
00:56long and I trying everything I can to drive this car as fast as I can.
01:00It's just, it was just a real struggle, honestly.
01:04I don't have anything left.
01:08Nothing left.
01:09But as we look forward to the playoffs, you guys have been so consistent recently and
01:13now you've got 15 additional points in the playoff bank.
01:18What does that mean for this team and what they can do during the playoffs?
01:21Yeah, it's huge for us.
01:24It's a bummer, man.
01:25This has been one of my best tracks and we just we had an all around off night.
01:29I hate that.
01:30I said, I hate we had to use that buffer up that we had coming in here.
01:34But I mean, this is what this team's kind of all about.
01:39I feel like this is the worst night we've had and in months and months speed wise.
01:46And we still finished 10th and it was kind of an all out struggle for us.
01:49So just really proud everybody on this team saying behind me, I couldn't give great feedback
01:54and it was just really, really hard to focus and keep it out of the wall there all night.
01:58So we gave some points up, you know, I feel like this race we could win, but it's really
02:02nice to in year two for me here at this team and in year four of this team for us to get
02:09the regular season championship like we did.
02:10Congrats.