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Reddick and Wallace declare dominant entrance row lockout for 23XI at COTA
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Reddick and Wallace declare dominant entrance row lockout for 23XI at COTA

By Miles Cooper March 1, 2025
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Earlier than qualifying was over, 23XI Racing’s Tyler Reddick and Bubba Wallace have been fearful that they’d ruined one another’s laps, however the truth is, their timing was excellent. Tyler Reddick earned pole place, simply forward of teammate Bubba Wallace who adopted in his tire tracks across the up to date 2.40-mile circuit.

“I used to be fearful I screwed his [Wallace] lap up and he was fearful he screwed my lap up,” stated Reddick, who now has ten Cup Collection poles, 4 of these on highway programs. “Man, as we speak actually threw us for a loop. The tempo was nowhere the place we thought it was going to be. All people right here at 23XI actually needed to go to work on our Toyota Camrys. We made large enhancements I believe from apply 1 to apply 2 … Simply actually glad the day went prefer it did. That is going to be nice monitor place for us tomorrow.”

Reddick and Wallace declare dominant entrance row lockout for 23XI at COTA

Tyler Reddick, 23XI Racing Toyota

Photograph by: Meg Oliphant / Getty Photos

For Wallace, this will likely be his finest ever begin on a highway course. “After we come to the highway course races, everyone within the Toyota camp leans on Tyler,” stated Wallace. “He [Reddick] does an amazing job of giving us the best info, however I actually thought I screwed his lap up. I bought into Flip 1 higher and I used to be simply type of shut. I believe if roles have been reversed, I’d have been like ‘again up off me and provides me some room.’ However that is simply how good he’s. Hats off to everybody at 23XI.”

As for the race begin, Wallace was fast to say he can be the primary to elevate into Flip 1 as his teammate (who received at COTA in 2023) leads the way in which.

The place are their rivals beginning on Sunday?

Qualifying rundown

After Shane van Gisbergen topped the charts in each apply classes, few dared to wager towards the highway racing ace.

Within the first group, it was certainly a Trackhouse driver main the way in which, however it wasn’t SVG! Daniel Suarez went to the highest at a 1:38.48 and whereas van Gisbergen bought shut, he ended up 4 hundredths behind his teammate.

Because the second group started their runs, the dream of a entrance row lockout for Trackhouse pale. A defiant Carson Hocevar took the entire criticism from Atlanta (the place he scored a career-best end of second whereas angering a number of drivers) and turned it into gas for this weekend. He toppled each Trackhouse drivers in the beginning of the second group and snatched up provisional pole with a 1:38.45.

Nonetheless, the surprises weren’t over as soon as the 23XI Racing duo rocketed to the highest of the charts. Wallace, working within the tire tracks of his teammate, adopted intently behind as they swept the entrance row. Reddick’s pole lap was a monumental 1:38.08s with Wallace at a powerful 1:38.30s.

Within the closing moments of qualifying, Chase Elliott was making an attempt to rebound from a dismal first try and did simply that, leaping as much as third on the time sheets. Hocevar ended up fourth, Suarez fifth, van Gisbergen sixth, Kyle Larson seventh, Kyle Busch eighth, Ross Chastain ninth, and Todd Gilliland tenth.

Making his Cup debut in a Purple Bull-sponsored No. 87 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet, 18-year-old Connor Zilisch timed in 14th on the pace charts. He additionally earned pole place for Saturday’s Xfinity race.

Images from Saturday of COTA

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