- Hamlin says Wallace and Reddick are expected to win with current 23XI resources
- Wallace admits: “We have expected to win… and we have yet to do that”
- Reddick, 2024 Championship 4 driver, remains winless in 2025
As the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season rolls into its second half, Denny Hamlin has already banked three wins. But for his 23XI Racing drivers—Bubba Wallace, Tyler Reddick, and rookie Riley Herbst—Victory Lane has remained elusive.
While Herbst is still adjusting to Cup Series competition, Wallace and Reddick are proven race winners with playoff potential. Yet neither has found a way to seal a win in 2025, despite sitting solidly in the points standings. Team co-owner Denny Hamlin isn’t pointing fingers, but he isn’t sugar-coating things either.
“I just know the resources that we’ve put in at 23XI, and all of our drivers should win,” Hamlin told FOX Sports’ Bob Pockrass. “That is the expectation that I have of them. Obviously, it is a results-based business, and if you don’t over time, you consider your options.”
“Overall, I’ve seen enough progression, specifically, from the [Wallace] standpoint, that I can see where this can go. Putting himself in a playoff position year after year is good, but winning makes it better.”
Reddick, who made the Championship 4 last season and claimed three wins in 2024, hasn’t carried that momentum into the new year. Wallace, meanwhile, is chasing his first win since Kansas in 2022. His only other Cup Series victory came at Talladega in a rain-shortened 2021 race.
Wallace echoed Hamlin’s sentiment, acknowledging that the team has fallen short of expectations so far.
“We have expected to win at this point in the season, and we have yet to do that,” Wallace said, also speaking to Pockrass. “But it goes back to executing and if we can just do our jobs, there’s no one behind us in the points that can beat us. So we’ll just continue to do that.”
Both Wallace and Reddick remain above the playoff cutline for now, but Hamlin made it clear that 23XI isn’t built to settle for points alone. Wins are the goal, and the pressure is rising…
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