Tyler Reddick wins the Daytona 500

2025 was a tough year for 23XI racing, with its distracting lawsuit against NASCAR threatening its existence as a team, and Tyler Reddick in particular, with scary health issues in his family and whatever other factors combining to have him go winless. That’s all behind them now; 23XI won a settlement in the lawsuit — a historic financial win for Cup Series teams over France family ownership — and Tyler Reddick went out and won the Great American Race. Michael Jordan’s impact on the sport cannot be overstated at this point. Remarkably — given Riley Herbst’s usual irrelevance — all three 23XI cars finished in the top 10, giving the team a decisive early championship lead.

It was your usual crazy Daytona race, but this time it felt like the Daytona 500 is supposed to.

This was no fluke drive, he was right back there with Denny in case anything stupid happened, and then it did, and he drove right through it on Nightmare Mode

— Jon 🛞 (@jon.turningfortune.com) Feb 15, 2026 at 5:44 PM