- Jordan, 61, has owned and operated 23XI Racing since 2020.
- Reddick took the win at Alabama after a crash occurred on the final lap.
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NASCAR team owner Michael Jordan celebrated his 23XI Racing’s victory at Talladega Superspeedway with his driver’s son, Beau, while Tyler Reddick stole the show in the most dramatic fashion in this year’s race.
Footage in X shows Jordan holding Reddick’s four-year-old son after his team’s upset victory on Sunday, with reporters surrounding the six-time NBA champion to capture his reaction.
Jordan, 61, who first got involved in racing in 2020, can be heard telling Beau that his dad did a “great job” before asking the preschooler, “Are you going to celebrate?” .
‘Yeah!’ Beau responded, as members of the 23XI Racing team gave each other hugs and high-fives.
Reddick took the win at Alabama when favorite Michael McDowell swerved up and down the track trying to block Brad Keselowski before crashing with the finish line in sight.
Michael Jordan celebrated 23XI Racing’s victory at Talladega with the winning driver’s son on Sunday
Tyler Reddick, driver of the number 45 Jordan Brand Toyota, crosses the finish line to win the race
Reddick, his wife, Alexa De Leon, and their four-year-old son, Beau, posing in victory lane.
It was a typical Talladega finish and sparked a raucous celebration on pit road with Jordan.
“This is like an NBA playoff game,” the Basketball Hall of Famer said at Victory Lane. “I’m so elated.”
McDowell, the polesitter, was in position to give Ford its much-needed first win of the year, but his haphazard efforts to block Keselowski, another Ford driver, ended up costing them both.
McDowell spun, Keselowski had to brake and Reddick accelerated to win by 0.166 seconds.
Jordan, 64, said Sunday’s dramatic finish to Alabama’s career was “like an NBA playoff game.”
Reddick celebrates with his car on the track after winning the NASCAR Cup Series GEICO 500
They also pulled out a bunch of cars behind them. Corey LaJoie’s No. 7 machine slid across the finish line sideways, pinned against the wall in front of the massive grandstands.
Reddick got out of his number 45 car and climbed the fence like Spider-Man.
“That was crazy, fans,” he shouted. ‘Chaos. Typical Talladega.’
Keselowski settled for second place and again failed to get his first win since 2021 in this trio of 2.66 miles in eastern Alabama.
“We went to make a move and Michael covered it,” Keselowski said. ‘We went the other way and had nowhere to go when Michael came back down. So are the things.