2026 Daytona 500 Champion Tyler Reddick is currently the driver of the No. 45 Toyota Camry XSE for 23XI Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series (NCS). 2026 marks Reddick’s seventh season in NASCAR’s top series and his fourth season racing with 23XI. Reddick started the season by becoming the first NASCAR Cup Series driver to win the first three regular season races, starting with the opening Daytona 500, followed by victories at Atlanta and Austin.

 

Since joining the Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin co-owned team, Reddick has established himself as one of the sport's top drivers, winning eight Cup Series races, eight pole awards, and securing a Regular Season Championship. Reddick's first three seasons in the Cup Series were with Richard Childress Racing where he had a breakout season in 2022 with his first three Cup Series victories.

 

Before Reddick’s inaugural season in the Cup Series in 2020, he was a back-to-back NASCAR Xfinity Series Champion, taking the title with two different teams. In doing so, he became the first driver in any NASCAR national series to earn consecutive titles with two different teams. In 2018, along with winning the championship, Reddick also won the Sunoco Rookie of the Year award. He became just the third driver in series history to win the title in his rookie season joining Chase Elliott (2014) and William Byron (2017). Through six seasons of Xfinity Series racing Reddick amassed 10 wins, 38 top-five and 58 top-10 finishes, and seven pole awards. 

 

Reddick’s NASCAR career began in 2014, when he joined Brad Keselowski Racing for a partial run in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, earning two pole awards, three top-five and nine top-10 finishes in 16 starts. Reddick competed full-time for the team during the 2015 and 2016 NCTS seasons, securing three wins, one pole award, 22 top-five and 31 top-10 finishes. 

 

Reddick began racing at age four in Outlaw Karts before moving on to mini sprints, midgets, dirt late models and sprint cars. During that time, he became the youngest person to qualify on the pole for the World 100 at Eldora Speedway, as well as the youngest winner at the East Bay Winter Nationals and in the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series. 

 

Reddick is enthusiastic about fitness, working on cars, racing of all kinds and anything outdoors. Reddick and his wife, Alexa, have two sons and reside north of Charlotte, N.C. 

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