The last time Josh Berry and the No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing team took on Talladega Superspeedway back in April, they had the speed to contend for the win \u2014 even after a dose of early hiccup.<\/p>\n
In the opening laps of that race, Berry\u2019s Mustang struck a bird while running at full speed, but the team quickly regrouped and stayed in the mix. From there, Berry methodically worked his way to the front, leading five different times for a total of 15 laps.<\/p>\n
A late-race speeding penalty on pit road derailed the team\u2019s shot at victory, leaving Berry with a 28th-place finish despite having one of the strongest cars in the field.<\/p>\n
Now, as Berry and the No. 21 eero Ford Mustang Dark Horse return to the 2.66-mile Alabama superspeedway for Sunday\u2019s YellaWood 500, the team\u2019s focus is on execution \u2014 and putting together a complete, mistake-free day.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur team has been really strong on the superspeedways this year,\u201d Berry said. \u201cWe were in a good spot in the spring before that late-race speeding penalty, so hopefully we can avoid the chaos, execute and come away with a great result in the eero Ford Mustang.\u201d<\/p>\n
Per NASCAR rules for drafting tracks such as Talladega, there will be no practice session this weekend. Qualifying is scheduled for Saturday at 1:30 p.m. ET on truTV, while Sunday\u2019s 188-lap, 500.08-mile race is set to go green shortly after 2 p.m. ET on NBC.<\/p>\n
Stage breaks are planned for Laps 60 and 120.<\/p>\n
WBR PR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last time Josh Berry and the No. 21 Wood Brothers Racing team took on Talladega Superspeedway back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,10221,634,7817,80666,7577,582,1704,82,98034,11574,11575],"class_list":{"0":"post-215713","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-ford","11":"tag-nascar","12":"tag-nbc","13":"tag-penalty","14":"tag-qualifying","15":"tag-racing","16":"tag-speed","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-talladega-superspeedway","19":"tag-wood-brothers","20":"tag-wood-brothers-racing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215713","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=215713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}