"Since NASCAR's top series took its first green flag on June 19, 1949, a span of 77-plus years of Cup racing, no driver has ever started one of those seasons with four consecutive victories. Now, Tyler Reddick, and his No. 45 Toyota co-owned by Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan, has a chance to do just that."
"Reddick has already won the roulette wheel that is the Daytona 500, the roulette wheel hooked up to a turbocharger that is Atlanta, and the video game bumper pool match that is the Circuit of the Americas road course in Austin. Now comes Phoenix, a de facto short track measuring one mile with a layout flatter than a crêpe."
"He is already the first driver to win the first three races of a Cup Series season. Now, keep in mind that for the first 13 years of the Daytona 500, 1959-71, the dual qualifying races that split the garage in half were treated as points-paying regular season events and most of those years they were in those first three races, so that made the task impossible."
Tyler Reddick and his No. 45 Toyota team, co-owned by Denny Hamlin and Michael Jordan, have won the first three races of the 2024 NASCAR Cup Series season at Daytona, Atlanta, and Austin. This Sunday at Phoenix Raceway, Reddick has an opportunity to achieve something unprecedented: four consecutive victories to start a season. In NASCAR's 77-year history since 1949, no driver has ever accomplished this feat. While Reddick's historical Phoenix performance shows an average finish of 17.8 across 12 starts, his exceptional performances at the season's first three tracks demonstrate his current dominance. Only two teams have previously won the first three races of a season, making Reddick's pursuit historically significant.
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