TALLADEGA, Ala. — Tyler Reddick will be at the front again when Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race starts at Talladega Superspeedway.
Reddick, who has won five of the nine races this season, will start from the pole for the fifth time this year after rain washed out qualifying and the field was set by metrics.
It will be the seventh time in 10 races that a Toyota has started on the pole and the fifth time in the last six races.
Reddick was asked about his strategy for Sunday.
“I hadn’t talked to Billy (Scott, crew chief) really about that shift, if there is one. I would imagine for us, no major shifts,” Reddick explained. “I think will pretty much approach the race the same. Yes, it would be nice if we could win a stage this year, but we found way to win races, so that’s good too. Yeah, I think for us, nothing major, no major changes. We’re going to have a great pit stall, all the things that kind of come with getting the pole position.
“So, I think if anything, we’re just in a good spot, whether it’s the green flag cycles or under caution, through getting first in the in the qualifying metrics. So, yeah, I think it’ll pretty much be as we expected.”
Having the best season of his career, Reddick is in a different position with the spotlight of the fans and the racing world clearly on him.
“It is weird to be in this spot. I will say that. There’s certainly a lot of noise out there, a lot of speculations, but for me, it’s easy to not get caught up in it because we know what we’re doing, we know how we’re doing it, when we’ve been successful with it,” he said. “So, yeah, I mean, I feel bad for those that are tired of it. We are enjoying it. We want to keep winning and doing the things that we’re doing. Yeah, I don’t feel bad because I remember how I felt all of last year. I know how my team felt about last year, and so we don’t want to go back to not winning and we’re going to keep working really hard to find ways to get a to victory lane.”
