INDIANAPOLIS — Tyler Reddick has had the speed in recent races, he’s just not gotten an opportunity to deliver the results. Problems on pit road has plagued strong results. He had another issue on Sunday but it’s not like he had much to contend for the win with Michael McDowell anyways.

“We definitely had really good pace in the second half of the race,” Reddick said. “We just didn’t have the best start and weren’t quite as fast in the first half and got behind it. We short-pitted them, but we had a slow stop, and weren’t in position to lunge them off of pit road, and that was kind of the story.

“We didn’t have a chance to get back around Daniel (Suarez). We could drop off about 10 car lengths and get right back to his bumper. Our SiriusXM Toyota Camry TRD was better, but not good enough to complete the pass. I think AJ Allmendinger with much fresher tires had to push really hard to get around Daniel, so that is the story of it – just unfortunately, hard to pass.”

Still, this was his third top six result in the last five weeks and if not for pit road on Monday in Michigan, Reddick very well could have a win, runner-up in Pocono, sixth in Loudon and fourth at Indy heading into Watkins Glen next weekend.

Safe to say, Reddick is trending in the right direction.