Tyler Reddick and Kyle Larson are having similar type of seasons. When they’re on, they’re really on. When they’re not, well they’re not. However, they’re both starting to find consistency again and if they can clean up some of the mistakes plaguing their respective teams, then I think both are set up for a nice march through the postseason ahead.

Larson had a top five car on Sunday in Indianapolis but made a mistake in Turn 12 by overcooking it coming into the corner. It dropped him several spots and took away a top five.

“I just made that mistake into turn 12. Flat-spotted my left front, which I felt like it could have affected my right-hander but thankfully, it didn’t,” said Larson. “There were more right-handers than lefts, but all the left-handers I had no grip. So I was really tight. Just kind of had to get through that run.

“I gave up a few positions right before green flag stops. We cycled ahead of the 20 and the 91. It was a tough race. I wish I wouldn’t have made that mistake, maybe I would’ve ended up third or fourth. Glad we were able to salvage a top-10 out of it. Bummed that I made a mistake like that, and we didn’t have any cautions to make up for it. It is what it is, just got to clean it up a bit.”

Larson has 12 top 10 finishes on the season. 10 of them are in the top five. He has almost as many finishes of 14th or worse (12) than he does top 5s. Which is why it’s been feast or famine for him.

Similar for Reddick. He brought his No. 45 Toyota home fourth in Sunday’s Verizon 200.

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.

But he’s like Larson in the fact that he has 10 top 10 finishes and among those 10, 7 are in the top 5. He has 14 finishes of 15th or worse including 8 being 27th or worse. Larson has 7.

However, Watkins Glen is a spot to where each could really fight for a win on Sunday.

Larson’s last four Watkins Glen finishes are sixth, eighth, first and first respectively. He also has finished 14th, eighth, fourth and 8th respectively on road courses in 2023.

Reddick won at COTA and was fourth at Indy. He came home 7th here a year ago.