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 is critical. It’s a difficult scenario.
“Greater than something, I’m simply able to get on a airplane and go dwelling.”
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 in a position to receive NASCAR approval to skip the race and stay eligible to advance to the following spherical, the factors misplaced doubtless would have put him in a must-win scenario subsequent week on the Charlotte street course. However even with the seventh-place end, he’s nonetheless 29 factors beneath the cutline and faces almost a must-win scenario.
Reddick indicated he had some ideas about skipping the race.
“Fortunately, he is doing nicely sufficient — I do not know the place to even classify it,” Reddick stated. “I would not say [my missing the race] was off the desk, relying on how issues have been going.
“However fortunately, he is doing nicely sufficient to the place me and my spouse have been on the identical web page about me staying.”
If Reddick have been to overlook a race, 23XI Racing would have truck collection factors chief Corey Heim obtainable in his position because the staff’s reserve driver.
Bob Pockrass covers NASCAR and INDYCAR for FOX Sports activities. He has spent many years masking motorsports, together with over 30 Daytona 500s, with stints at ESPN, Sporting Information, NASCAR Scene journal and The (Daytona Seashore) Information-Journal. Observe him on Twitter @bobpockrass.
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