Reddick captures Daytona 500 for Michael Jordan's team

Michael Jordan is still winning championships, this time in NASCAR as his racing team, along with driver Tyler Reddick, won the Daytona 500 over the weekend. Here's more. Reddick passed leader Chase Elliott off the final turn to win the 68th Daytona 500 in Daytona Beach, Florida. Reddick was in third place on the final lap. The 30-year-old then went high and swooped low off turn four to beat Ricky Stenhouse Jr. by less than a second, as the lead group wrecked wildly before reaching the flag stand. Last year was really hard for all of us, hard for me. When you're a cup driver and you get to this level and drive for Michael Jordan, you know, it's expected you win every single year. And for us to go on that drought that we did made us really look hard in the mirror and just really proud of everyone on our chubby casino. Toyota Camry worked really, really hard in the offseason, and there was many points in this race where we weren't making decisions that we wanted to, but we just reset. And every opportunity that we got to re-sack, we went back at it and just, just speechless. I didn't know if I'd ever win this race. It's just, it's surreal, honestly. Honestly, the best part is my son asked for the race, are you finally going to win this race? And something about today just felt right. Lifelong racing fan and six-time champion with the Chicago Bulls, Jordan, who owns four cars, had to let the moment sink in. I can't even believe it. I mean, it was so, so gratifying. I mean, we had four guys that were really fighting, that was helping each other out. I mean, you never know how these races are going to end, right? It's like, you just try to survive. And you know, I thought Riley did an unbelievable job by pushing at the end. You know, that shows you what teamwork can really, really do. I mean, he doesn't get enough credit. He won't get enough credit, but we feel the love. We understand exactly what he did. And I mean, we just hung in there all day. I mean, we were great strategy by the team and we gave ourselves a chance at the end. And look, I'm ecstatic. I mean, I don't even know what to say. It feels like I won a championship, but until I get my ring, I won't even know. It was just a couple of months ago that Jordan's team and Front Row Motorsports reached a settlement agreement, claiming that NASCAR has used anti-competitive practices to prevent fair competition in the sport. Sean Marshall, NTD News.