KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Tyler Reddick competed in a critical NASCAR Cup Series playoff race Sunday while his 4-month son, Rookie, was in a cardiovascular intensive care unit undergoing tests following signs of heart failure.
Reddick’s wife, Alexa, had posted Sunday morning on Instagram about their baby’s health crisis and asking for prayers:
“After a run around for months with the pediatrician office, I knew what was going on was something bigger. Always trust your mom gut. Our sweet Rookie was showing signs of heart failure that were being missed. Please please pray for this sweet guy that God heals his heart. With God, Rookie, and his amazing doctors here at Levine’s I believe He can. We are in the cardiovascular ICU while we get some answers and work on improving heart function.”
After finishing seventh at Kansas Speedway, Reddick said it is a serious situation.
“It’s difficult,” Reddick said. “It’s not what you want for your kids. As a father, my first son, [5-year-old] Beau has hit his head, bruised himself up, reduce himself up. However what my son Rookie goes by means of is severe. It’s a tough scenario.
“Greater than something, I’m simply able to get on a aircraft and go house.”
Tyler Reddick celebrates together with his spouse, Alexa, and son, Beau, after profitable the FireKeepers On line casino 400 on August 19, 2024.
Whereas he would have been capable of get hold of NASCAR approval to skip the race and stay eligible to advance to the subsequent spherical, the factors misplaced seemingly would have put him in a must-win scenario subsequent week on the Charlotte highway course. However even with the seventh-place end, he’s nonetheless 29 factors beneath the cutline and faces practically a must-win scenario.
Reddick indicated he had some ideas about skipping the race.
“Fortunately, he is doing properly sufficient — I do not know the place to even classify it,” Reddick mentioned. “I would not say [my missing the race] was off the desk, relying on how issues had been going.
“However fortunately, he is doing properly sufficient to the place me and my spouse had been on the identical web page about me staying.”
If Reddick had been to overlook a race, 23XI Racing would have truck collection factors chief Corey Heim accessible in his position because the crew’s reserve driver.
Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR and INDYCAR for FOX Sports activities. He has spent many years overlaying motorsports, together with over 30 Daytona 500s, with stints at ESPN, Sporting Information, NASCAR Scene journal and The (Daytona Seashore) Information-Journal. Comply with him on Twitter @bobpockrass.
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