Saved by a Late Race Caution, Reddick Goes Five For Nine on the Season with Kansas Speedway Win

23XI Racing and Reddick Keep Rolling with Fifth WinSean Gardner - Getty Images

Tyler Reddick wins again in 2026 with his overtime victory over Kyle Larson and his 23XI Racing boss Denny Hamlin on Sunday afternoon. After starting on the pole, Reddick faded in the opening stage, giving the lead to Hamlin, who would go on to win stage one and run up front and lead the most laps, 131 of the 274-lap race.

In the closing laps of the final stage, Hamlin was still leading, but his tire wear was evident as Reddick shortened the gap.

With 15 laps remaining, Reddick was within a second of the lead. With 11 to go, Reddick was at the back panel of Hamlin’s No. 11. After two laps of battling, Reddick took the lead from his boss to weave through traffic. With seven laps remaining, Austin Dillon in the No. 3 held up Tyler Reddick, giving Hamlin another shot at the win. Hamlin grew frustrated with Dillon racing them both so hard and not getting out of the way of the leaders.

With three laps to go, Reddick wiggles as he runs out of fuel in the main cell and hits the wall in turn three. Reddick loses the lead to Hamlin, but before more damage could be done, the No. 51 of Cody Ware goes around at the pack of the field, saving Reddick’s chance of a fifth win.

This was the first ’natural caution’ of the race, with only yellow flags being thrown for the two stage breaks.

The No. 45 team radioed to ask Reddick what was happening, and he explained that he ran out of fuel and had to flip the switch to pump two.

The team assured Reddick that there was enough fuel, and without the caution immediately following, there was still a chance for Reddick to battle back from the wall hit and loss of speed to race against his boss once again.

With the caution, leaders came to pit, and Hamlin and Reddick were separated from third place by lapped cars. Both took fuel only, with Hamlin making it out ahead of Reddick for the Overtime finish.

Last fall, tensions at 23XI Racing ran high following a last-lap battle between one of Hamlin’s other drivers and him. As Bubba Wallace had the lead on the final lap, Hamlin desperately went for his 60th career win. Instead, he wrecked himself and his driver.

On the restart, Kyle Larson, who won the second stage, inserted himself into the narrative, shooting by the two Toyota drivers, looking for his first win of the season and only the third win for a non-Toyota driver.