Trivia time. Two-part question.

First: What do former NASCAR drivers Lee Petty, Geoff Bodine, Davey Allison, Dale Earnhardt, Michael Waltrip, Sterling Marlin and Cale Yarborough have in common?

If you guessed, “they all were winners of the Daytona 500 AND they all raced on a certain dirt track in Busti, New York,” you can move to the head of the class.

And secondly: Who is the newest member of the Daytona International Speedway/Stateline Speedway fraternity?

If you guessed, “Tyler Reddick,” then you can take the figurative checkered flag.

Reddick won “The Great American Race” on Sunday with a last-lap pass to secure the win not only for himself, but also for his Toyota 23XI team, which is owned by NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan and three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin.

“Just incredible how it all played out. Just true Daytona madness,” the 30-year-old Reddick said post race as reported by The Associated Press. “I’ve already lost my voice from screaming. Never thought I’d be Daytona 500 champion.”

The excitement was felt in this neck of the woods, too, according to local dirt-track racing historian Randy Anderson, who recalled the night that Reddick raced in the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Show at Stateline on July 24, 2012.

“I just have an affinity for guys who started out on dirt and then had success at the highest levels of the sport,” Anderson said, “especially a guy I saw with my own eyes at 16 years old in Busti, New York.”

Anderson said he had heard of Reddick in 2011 after the latter had won a big dirt-track race in Florida.

“He showed up at Stateline the following year with the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Show,” Anderson added, “and I was curious whether he was the real deal or not.”

He got his answer.

“That night he was the fast qualifier of all the cars that were there,” Anderson continued. “Not only that, he broke the Stateline Speedway track record with his time. … I was just thinking how brave this guy is. Maybe he’s so young he doesn’t realize it’s going to hurt if he wrecks. He was brave and he was fast. To have success, even at that level, you need some money behind you. I knew he had a grandfather who was funding his racing operation, (so) Tyler had some pretty good equipment, but even if you have the best equipment you still have to drive it. He proved a lot to me that night.”

The win also means that Reddick joins a pretty impressive list of Daytona champs and Stateline alums.

“That’s one of the neatest things about it,” Anderson said. “I don’t know how many dirt tracks can say they’ve had eight Daytona winners start at their track.”

According to the AP, Reddick, a Corning, California resident, won for the ninth time in the Cup Series and first time since late in the 2024 season. Winless last year, Reddick was primarily focused on his infant son, who was found to have a tumor in his chest that affected his heart.