Tyler Reddick left the NASCAR world dumbfounded with the last-lap transfer he pulled off to win at Homestead-Miami Speedway, particularly Ryan Blaney.
The No. 45 wheelman rocketed previous the reigning Cup Sequence champion exiting the ultimate flip, and left Blaney questioning what else he might’ve achieved to maintain Reddick behind him. Throughout the newest episode of The Teardown, NASCAR insiders Jeff Gluck and Jordan Bianchi evaluated Blaney’s decision-making, as he now enters a must-win at Martinsville Raceway this coming weekend.
“He’s going to look again and he’s going to go, ‘I’ve remorse. There’s issues I want I’d have achieved in a different way.’ … You might inform, studying his physique language, he was kicking himself, and that this was not — the final lap and the way it unfolded, didn’t go how he anticipated it to. He couldn’t consider, although, that Reddick on these tires might make that transfer that he did. He was completely flabbergasted that Reddick might go in there and his automobile was capable of stick the best way it did,” Bianchi said. “So, I’m placing myself in his thoughts a little bit bit of claiming, you’ve obtained a man behind you on older tires, such as you’ve obtained to go in there and make that transfer. I need him to strive that and (I) suppose he’s not going to have the ability to do it.
“Reddick stated later, he thought, that Blaney gave him the excessive line as a result of he was anxious that possibly if Reddick goes in there, he’s going to dive-bomb him after which attempt to do a slide job sort of factor. We noticed Reddick do one thing much like that earlier this yr at Darlington, however that was working by what Blaney was saying. That, to me, looks like the step there may be that, ‘Hey, this man’s in older tires. I don’t suppose he’s going to have the ability to cling it on the highest line like that and make it stick.’”
Whereas Bianchi believes Blaney could have some remorse, Gluck thinks he’s going to chalk it as much as merely getting beat, as circumstances exterior of his management have been at play as a result of Reddick’s unimaginable driving.
“Coming into the final lap, I believe because the chief particularly, you’ve obtained to go the place you suppose your automobile is quicker. You’re simply considering that there’s no approach Reddick ought to have been capable of do what he did on older tires at Homestead,” Gluck added. “I get they weren’t that a lot older tires, however they have been older tires. So to offer him the highest, I imply, to start with, if you happen to go run the highest and he then pulls down and in some way crosses you over and does a slide job, then you definately simply gave it away. When you go up high and also you scrub the fence for some cause, then you definately simply gave it away.
“I sort of really feel like, you’ve got a lead, you’ve cleared Denny, which ought to have been the most important factor to fret about. Then you definately simply have Reddick on older tires, you’re simply not considering that — it’s simply not going to stay. So, I get that he might second guess himself, however in all honesty, the response ought to simply be, I’d tip my cap. I imply, you simply beat me straight up, so what are you able to do? I simply, I don’t suppose you anticipate that. And 99 occasions out of 100, I’d suppose that that doesn’t work. Reddick doesn’t even know the way he did it. So, I believe you simply go, ‘Wow, that was unbelievable. Rattling, we obtained beat.’”
Regardless, Tyler Reddick has miraculously made it to the Championship 4, whereas Ryan Blaney will probably be left questioning what might’ve been if he doesn’t find yourself profitable Martinsville this weekend. The stress is on for the No. 12 crew in Virginia, and we’ll see if they will come by two seasons in a row.
