{"id":131752,"date":"2025-09-09T17:42:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/131752\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T17:42:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:42:06","slug":"nascar-insiders-austin-cindric-react-to-chase-elliott-josh-berry-incident-at-gateway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/131752\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR insiders, Austin Cindric react to Chase Elliott-Josh Berry incident at Gateway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chase Elliott made contact with Josh Berry at the NASCAR Cup Series Gateway race, and the wreck hurt Berry\u2019s chances to advance in the playoffs. On the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2Uf1k4AfKXM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Door Bumper Clear podcast<\/a>, NASCAR reporter Jordan Bianchi, NASCAR driver Austin Cindric and Freddie Kraft, the spotter for Bubba Wallace, shared their reactions to Elliott contacting Berry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJosh Berry, poor guy, can\u2019t get a break,\u201d Kraft said. \u201cIt looked to me like a racing deal. I know Chase got in there hot, got a little loose. They were three-wide getting in there. It\u2019s just kind of everybody going for one spot at the same time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bianchi then shared his thoughts on the wreck. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t intentional. It was an accident, and Chase went in there hot, slid up the track, and got in the 21 (Berry),\u201d Bianchi said. \u201cIt sucks for the 21, start your playoff back-to-back wrecks, and you\u2019re effectively in a must-win position now. Six DNFs this year on accident, so it\u2019s kind of a microcosm of their year and where it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More on the Chase Elliott-Josh Berry accident<\/p>\n<p>Kraft then asked Cindric how a driver bounces back from being in a wreck and out of a race. \u201cYou kind of just have to look forward,\u201d Cindric said. \u201cWith what happened there, I think you see that happened once a year at that track, and just guys diving off in the inside of somebody and getting loose. Even in this car, it\u2019s possible. I don\u2019t see there\u2019s any negative intent there. It\u2019s just if you\u2019re Josh, how do you accept that?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The wreck happened when Josh Berry was running 15th in the 35th Lap. He hit the outside wall after Chase Elliott bumped him into Turn 1. Berry\u2019s No. 21 car took a lot of damage, leading to his day ending early. <\/p>\n<p>Berry clinched a playoff spot after winning the Last Vegas race in March. With him finishing 36th at Gateway on Sunday and 38th at Darlington last week, Berry will need to essentially win at Bristol this Saturday to advance to the second round of the playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chase Elliott made contact with Josh Berry at the NASCAR Cup Series Gateway race, and the wreck hurt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-131752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}