{"id":635252,"date":"2026-03-02T21:54:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T21:54:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/635252\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T21:54:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T21:54:21","slug":"tyler-reddick-celebrates-three-peat-of-sorts-with-michael-jordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/635252\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyler Reddick celebrates three-peat of sorts with Michael Jordan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tyler Reddick<\/a> isn\u2019t exactly the Michael Jordan<\/a> of NASCAR.<\/p>\n

Not yet anyway.<\/p>\n

Still, Reddick seems to be at the start of something special as the driver of a team co-owned by the NBA legend who led the Chicago Bulls to two NBA championship three-peats in the 1990s (1991-93 and 1996-98).<\/p>\n

Less than a month into the season, Reddick has established his own three-peat of sorts, the likes of which has never been seen before in NASCAR. <\/p>\n

After winning the Daytona 500 on Feb. 16 and at Echo Park Speedway in Atlanta last week, Reddick held off Shane van Gisbergen over the final 20 laps at Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, on Sunday to become the first Cup Series driver to win the first three races of the season.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s incredible. NASCAR\u2019s always been super competitive but in this day and age where the field is so close, for us to be able to pull this off is true testament of teamwork, hard work in the offseason by everyone on this team, everyone at 23XI,\u201d Reddick told KXAN-TV<\/a> in Austin after the race. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s super special to be on this kind of a run. We\u2019re just gonna try to keep it going as long as we can. We\u2019re kind of just in the right headspace throughout the week, and it\u2019s been really sweet to just grab these wins like we have.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"23XI <\/p>\n

23XI Racing co-owner Michael Jordan watches the final laps by Tyler Reddick on Sunday in Austin, Texas.<\/p>\n

(Stephen Spillman \/ Associated Press)<\/p>\n

Jordan, who co-owns 23XI Racing with Denny Hamlin<\/a>, was with Reddick\u2019s pit crew at the end of the race. As Reddick climbed out of the car, Jordan gave him a high five and exclaimed, \u201cThree, baby, three!\u201d<\/p>\n

Reddick posted video of that exchange with Jordan on X<\/a> and wrote, \u201c3 PEAT BABY.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also on X, Reddick posted<\/a> a photo of Jordan holding up three fingers after the Bulls\u2019 first three-peat in 1993 next to a photo of himself making the same gesture while holding his trophy from Sunday\u2019s race.<\/p>\n

\u201cTyler came in with most pressure,\u201d Jordan told Fox Sports<\/a>. \u201cHe had a chance to win three in a row. That\u2019s the hardest one to win, you know. And he kept to his strategy. … Tyler did a good job. He beat good competition.\u201d<\/p>\n

In December, an anti-trust lawsuit against NASCAR<\/a> filed by 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports was settled<\/a> nine days into the trial, with NASCAR agreeing to grant all of its teams the permanent charters they had been seeking.<\/p>\n

Started in 2020, 23XI Racing has three full-time cars \u2014 driven by Reddick, Bubba Wallace<\/a> and Riley Herbst \u2014 as well as a part-time car driven by Corey Heim. Entering next week\u2019s race in Phoenix, Reddick leads the NASCAR Cup standings by 70 points, followed by Wallace in second place.<\/p>\n

Jordan credited Hamlin, who still drives for Joe Gibbs Racing, as the \u201cmastermind\u201d who put together a team that is seeing such great success early this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just put up the money,\u201d Jordan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyler Reddick isn\u2019t exactly the Michael Jordan of NASCAR. Not yet anyway. Still, Reddick seems to be at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635253,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3771],"tags":[2096,7,83064,920,919,329,3824,173,935,14307,6,83063,24209,50226,2084,83065,1396,396,80866,168],"class_list":{"0":"post-635252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-bulls","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-bubba-wallace","11":"tag-bulls","12":"tag-chicago","13":"tag-chicago-bulls","14":"tag-chicagobulls","15":"tag-day","16":"tag-michael-jordan","17":"tag-nascar","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-peat-baby","20":"tag-photo","21":"tag-race","22":"tag-season","23":"tag-sort","24":"tag-sunday","25":"tag-team","26":"tag-tyler-reddick","27":"tag-week"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116161811583427914","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}