A team founded four summers ago by Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny Hamlin and NBA legend Michael Jordan based on an online rumor is atop the NASCAR Cup Series points standings for the first time in its short four-year history.

23XI Racing driver Tyler Reddick moved to the top of the point standings for the first time in his career with his victory in the rain-affected FireKeepers Casino 400 at Michigan International Speedway on Monday, making him the eighth different points leader of the 2024 season.

The driver of the No. 45 Toyota, who also won at Talladega Superspeedway in April, has been on a tear lately, with 10 top-six finishes in 11 races and five top-three finishes in six, and finally picked up his second win in Michigan.

With the win, Reddick took the lead in the drivers’ standings from Hendrick Motorsports’ Kyle Larson, who dropped to fourth due to his early crash. He holds a 10-point lead over Hendrick Motorsports’ Chase Elliott with two regular-season races remaining at Daytona International Speedway and Darlington Raceway.

Although Larson missed the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway, the No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports team still picked up the points Justin Allgaier earned in his absence, and Reddick’s win even helped the No. 45 team move to the top of the owner standings.

Allgaier’s 13th-place finish in the race earned him 24 points for the team. Larson is 32 points behind Reddick, so the No. 5 team is officially in second place in the owner standings, eight points behind the No. 45 team.

As many fans learned last year due to Chase Elliott’s injury and suspension, if there is a replacement driver for a charter team at any point, the driver playoffs and the owner playoffs are effectively two separate postseasons.

The fact that Reddick leads the drivers’ standings after 24 races this season and his No. 45 team also leads the owners’ standings is a major accomplishment for a relatively young Cup Series team, even considering the technical alliance with Toyota powerhouse Joe Gibbs Racing.

The other 23XI Racing driver, Bubba Wallace, is 14th in the points standings, but the position of the playoff cut line puts him one point below at 17th in the playoff standings. His No. 23 team is also 14th in the owners’ standings and is also 17th in the playoff standings, one point behind.

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