Tyler Reddick won the NASCAR Cup Series race at the Circuit of the Americas on Sunday to become the first driver in history to win the first three races in a season.
Reddick started the race from pole and took the final restart with 17 laps to go from the front row alongside Ryan Blaney with Shane Van Gisbergen in third looking for his sixth straight road course win.
Van Gisbergen got by Blaney in Turn 1 and stuck to Reddick’s bumper for several laps before the gap started to widen as Reddick left him in the dust to settle for second. Christopher Bell finished second ahead of Ty Gibbs and Michael McDowell.
“It’s so fitting,” Reddick said after the race. “We get going at the end there and I’m leading and there’s SVG, the guy I’ve been trying to beat for a while now.”
“You know, to be able to outlast him there and hold on for the win is just incredible.”
After two superspeedways and a road course, the Cup Series heads to Phoenix Raceway’s one-mile oval with the new 750 hp car package which was also used at COTA and will be featured on all ovals shorter than 1.5-miles in length along with road and street circuits.
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