Tyler Reddick on 23XI Racing’s chemistry in second year with team

Tyler Reddick explains how his 2023 season with 23XI Racing propelled the No. 45 team to the Regular Season Championship in 2024.

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00:00Dustin Long, NBC Sports. Tyler, obviously when you signed with 2311, the original

00:06plan was this would have been your first season. You got the opportunity to run

00:10all last year. How did that help create the foundation or impact the foundation

00:17for this season? I definitely played a huge factor in it. I have all the

00:22faith in the world that the cars would have been as fast, but seeing just, you

00:26know, we got great people, smart people at Joe Gibbs Racing as well that play a

00:31big role in where our cars are at coming to the racetrack too. So I feel

00:36like they would have had the speed and potential with or without me,

00:40but certainly, you know, some of the things that me and Billy have been able to

00:43work on, some of the things that, you know, I got to work on a year and some back at

00:49the coded tire test, you know, trying to just make the road course program a

00:54little better. I feel like those things were very, very beneficial. Certainly, I

00:58think for just the team chemistry side of it, that extra year has really

01:03allowed us to really hit our stride this year. So what did you and Billy have to

01:09go through? Because we always hear that, you know, every driver-crew chief

01:12relationship has to build that chemistry and it comes at different rates for

01:16different combinations. What did you guys have to go through or what did you go

01:21through last year that has helped you moving forward? I mean, just, I will, it's

01:27works. I guess I wouldn't say live, but just we just had to go through races,

01:30right? The more time that we had together, we got to experience the highs

01:33together, the lows, understand how to navigate them as a team. I think just

01:40experience can be invaluable in those situations, right? The more that we know

01:43each other, the more just kind of instinctually we know what's gonna

01:47happen next without having to really talk about it or play it out. So I think

01:51that experience for both of us has helped a lot. Just, you know, having

01:56consistency, right? Brought in Nick Payne, who was, you know, kind of new to the

02:01sport, was doing Xfinity trucks, some tests, no full-time cup gig, and starting

02:06fresh with him. And just having the consistency across board with the team, I

02:10think, has really helped us.