Tyler Reddick wins NASCAR Daytona 500 for Michael Jordan-owned 23XI Racing

DAYTONA, Fla. -- Tyler Reddick won the Daytona 500 successful a car owned by Michael Jordan erstwhile Chase Elliott crashed arsenic helium and Reddick were battling for the win.

Reddick, successful a Toyota for 23XI Racing, led lone 1 thigh connected Sunday: the 1 to the checkered emblem for the squad owned by the NBA Hall of Famer and three-time Daytona 500 victor Denny Hamlin.

Hamlin, who drives for Joe Gibbs Racing, was progressive successful the last caution erstwhile helium and teammate Christopher Bell collided with 9 laps remaining. It acceptable up the last propulsion to the decorativeness implicit the last 4 laps.

Elliott had power connected the last thigh aft person Carson Hocevar was spun disconnected the way and it appeared the lad of NASCAR Hall of Famer Bill Elliott would yet triumph his archetypal Daytona 500.

Instead, Reddick made a immense surge, deed Elliott to origin Elliott to clang and sailed past to instrumentality Jordan to the Daytona International Speedway triumph lane.

Driver Tyler Reddick leads different cars retired to the way during a NASCAR Daytona 500 practice, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026, successful Daytona, Fla. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

Jordan was the look of the December national antitrust suit that NASCAR settled connected the ninth time of trial. The colony changed the revenue-sharing exemplary successful the United States' apical motorsports series.

The triumph marked a Daytona expanse for 3 squad owners heavy progressive successful the trial. Bob Jenkins, who joined 23XI successful suing NASCAR, opened the play with a triumph erstwhile Chandler Smith won the Truck Series opener connected Friday nighttime for Front Row Motorsports.

Richard Childress, who testified connected behalf of 23XI and Front Row and was the taxable of disparaging substance messages by since-departed NASCAR president Steve Phelps, was the winning squad proprietor Saturday erstwhile Austin Hill won.

Then came "The Great American Race" and Jordan and Hamlin, the 2 front-facing litigants got their archetypal Daytona 500 victory. It was an aboriginal day contiguous for Jordan, who turns 63 connected Tuesday.

Former contention winners Ricky Stenhouse Jr. and Joey Logano finished 2nd and 3rd arsenic Toyota, Chevrolet and Ford each placed a operator connected the podium. Elliott coiled up 4th and sat dejected and successful disbelief connected the extracurricular partition of the way aft climbing from his car.