Kyle Petty claims Michael Jordan celebrating Tyler Reddick’s win at Talladega victory lane is 'a huge moment for the sport'

Petty pointed out that having such an iconic individual like Jordan on the victory lane as a huge moment for the sport. He pointed out that NASCAR got a lot of media attention because of the ex-NBA Champion’s presence. The eight times Cup race winner thanked the duo for being the reason for new attention the sport is getting.

But to have an iconic basketball player, an iconic individual like Michael Jordan go to victory lane the following week for his first trip with his team, 23XI, with his driver, Tyler Reddick, is a huge moment for the sport. It’ll be played out on sports pages and on TV all across America today. You can count on it. Thank you, Tyler Reddick and Michael Jordan. Kyle Petty said via NASCAR.

The race last week at Texas featured a huge moment as well

It’s the second week in a raw the NSASCAR PR team has some viral contents to share and take advantage of it because of the race result. Last week Chase Elliott, the most popular driver of the sport, won the race and got a lot of media attention. According to Petty the MJ movement is obviously is the bigger one.

That’s huge for me. That is huge for this sport. When we go back to last week and we see our most popular driver, Chase Elliott, go to victory lane I think everybody thought, ‘What a great day for the sport. Our Mr. popularity is back in victory lane.’ Kyle Petty said.

NASCAR seems really lucky about having Chase Elliott and Tyler Reddick as winners in the last two weekends. This has helped the attention to shift away from the fact that racing was really underwhelming. But the sanctioning body has to be aware of the fact that it can’t happen every week and issue with Next-Gen cars has to be fixed.