On Sunday, Tyler Reddick became the first driver in NASCAR history to win the first three races of a season. On March 8, he’ll have the opportunity to break his own record and win a fourth at Phoenix Raceway, where 23XI Racing co-owner Michael Jordan will be rooting him on.
Reddick won the Daytona 500 to open the year before winning at Atlanta on Feb. 21 and Circuit of the Americas on Sunday. He leads the Cup Series standings by 70 points going into Phoenix.
Of course, alongside Reddick and 23XI has been Jordan, who owns 23XI alongside Cup Series driver Denny Hamlin. Jordan himself knows what a three-peat feels like, having won three consecutive NBA titles twice (1991-93, 1996-98) during his legendary NBA career.
And while Reddick isn’t racing for a fourth straight championship on Sunday, he will be racing for a fourth straight Cup Series win, which is an incredibly difficult feat to accomplish. Only two drivers in the last 30 years have won four straight races: Jeff Gordon in 1998 and Jimmie Johnson in 2007.
Why Tyler Reddick could win four in a row at Phoenix
Christopher Bell was the most recent to win three Cup Series races in a row, doing so in 2025. The end cap to that win streak came at Phoenix, with Bell finishing 12th the next week at Las Vegas.
Phoenix has been a hit-or-miss track for Reddick. In his 12 starts at the one-mile track in Avondale, Ariz., he has just four top-10 finishes.
But three of those have come in his six starts at the venue with 23XI, including a third-place effort in March 2023 and a sixth-place finish in March 2024, in which Reddick led 68 laps.
“A number of years, I think dating back to even the start of this car, we’ve been able to go there [Phoenix] and be knocking on the door,” Reddick said Sunday. “Last year we had the power steering failure that kind of knocked us out of it.
“Two years ago I remember me and Denny got together, the caution came out in the middle of the [pit] cycle. In my opinion, we go to the spring Phoenix race, we’re typically, like, right there.”
Why Tyler Reddick can’t win four in a row at Phoenix
Phoenix was not good to Reddick in 2025. He finished 20th and 26th, respectively, in the two races at the track a season ago and didn’t lead a single lap.
Many of the Cup Series’ best drivers have been very fast at Phoenix in recent years.
The aforementioned Bell has won the last two Phoenix spring races and has led a total of 298 laps over the last four races at the track. Ryan Blaney won the most recent Phoenix race in November 2025 and has only one finish worse than fifth in eight Phoenix starts in the Next-Gen era, and that was due to a blown engine in March 2025.
Reddick’s team co-owner in Hamlin will also be a force to be reckoned with on Sunday. Hamlin led 208 laps the last time the Cup Series visited Phoenix and, like Reddick, spent 68 circuits out in front in March 2024.
A win for Reddick at Phoenix would extend his own record and make him the only driver to win four straight races to open a Cup Series season, as well as only the third driver in 30 years to win four consecutive races at any point in a season.
Oh, and he’ll try to do so with Michael Jordan looking on.
No pressure.