For a brief moment on Saturday during the Grant Park 165 it looked like Alex Bowman was cruising to an easy win, well ahead of the field when he brought down the white flag for one final lap to go.
Then a contender broke past the rest of the field and began charging. Hard.
It was Tyler Reddick, running on slick tires vs. the wet weather tires of Bowman. And he was making up ground fast. Fast enough to make it a competitive race in the final moments.
really pushing Bowman for his lead, Reddick clipped a wall. He lost a good deal of speed, allowing Bowman to open up his lead again and close things out comfortably.
“The other moment that stuck out to me and I almost don’t like to say it, but the Tyler Reddick scenario at the end,” said Kevin Harvick on the Kevin Harvick’s Happy Hour podcast. “Tyler Reddick was going to catch Alex Bowman, and we’ve seen this out of Tyler in several races now where he’s had a chance to win and doesn’t win. And I think he clipped the wall there in Turn 2, I believe, but he was running Alex Bowman down and he was going to get there to the back bumper of that 48 car before he got back to the start/finish line and ultimately took himself out of contention, again, of winning the race.”
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