{"id":147028,"date":"2025-09-16T02:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T02:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/147028\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T02:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T02:00:07","slug":"denny-hamlin-reacts-to-josh-berry-brutal-nascar-cup-playoff-run-after-bristol-elimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/147028\/","title":{"rendered":"Denny Hamlin reacts to Josh Berry brutal NASCAR Cup playoff run after Bristol elimination"},"content":{"rendered":"

Josh Berry had a promising start to the 2025 NASCAR<\/a> Cup Series season. Berry, in his first season driving the No. 21 Ford for Wood Brothers Racing, finished fourth at Phoenix Raceway in March and won the following week at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. <\/p>\n

Since then, not that much has gone right for Berry and the No. 21 team. Nothing went to plan in the Round of 16 of the playoffs. Berry finished last in each Round of 16 race, bowing out of the postseason. Berry wrecked on Lap 1 of the playoff opener at Darlington Raceway and got spun by\u00a0Chase Elliott\u00a0on Lap 36 at Gateway.\u00a0In Saturday\u2019s Bristol Night Race, his pit crew had to pull him from his car on pit road after his caught on fire<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Berry never stood a chance to compete this postseason. While it\u2019s tough either way, Denny Hamlin said he would prefer to go out like Berry did, rather than being eliminated late in an elimination race.<\/p>\n

\u201cMan, Josh Berry \u2014 that\u2019s a tough way to go,\u201d Hamlin said on Monday\u2019s Actions Detrimental<\/a> podcast. \u201cI don\u2019t know, is it tougher to go that way or is it tougher to be in it and then out? \u2026 The first one at Darlington, he did screw up, although, I don\u2019t put that on him because it\u2019s hard to control a car that only has three tires on the ground and when he hit that bump, that\u2019s all he had. And then, yeah, he got taken out and then was it just a fire that took him out? I would just rather be out of it at the beginning then have it swept away with 10 laps to go in the elimination race.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJosh Berry\u2019s disastrous postseason is over<\/p>\n

Berry was already facing a tough climb coming into Bristol -45 below the cutline. He was the first driver eliminated from the playoffs. <\/p>\n

Just about none of it was in Berry\u2019s control. Unfortunately, his championship hopes are done.<\/p>\n

\u201cMan, it\u2019s been a tough couple of weeks, but it hasn\u2019t been because of performance. These guys have been doing a good job,\u201d Berry said. \u201c\u2026 Definitely not the way we wanted our first round to go. We felt like we executed well and ran well, just haven\u2019t had the finishes. This is going to be a tough one to watch. That was going to be a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Berry had a promising start to the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season. Berry, in his first season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-147028","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\/147028","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=147028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}