{"id":856206,"date":"2026-08-13T05:24:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T05:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/856206\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T05:24:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T05:24:17","slug":"josh-berry-is-racing-for-his-nascar-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/856206\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Berry Is Racing for His NASCAR Career"},"content":{"rendered":"

Josh Berry says he\u2019s not close to finding a ride for 2027 and admits it\u2019s been a \u201cbit of a challenge\u201d because there\u2019s little movement in NASCAR\u2019s Cup Series, and in the O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts and Craftsman Truck series the teams want a driver to bring money to the organization.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe had one (conversation)\u2026 and they asked for $3 million,\u201d says Berry, who\u2019s working with KHI Management, which is owned by Kevin and DeLana Harvick. \u201cIt\u2019s hard to even get a conversation unless you already know you have at least something in place there to bring to the table. I don\u2019t feel any closer (to having a ride for next year) than I did two months ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

In mid-June it was announced that Berry wouldn\u2019t return to Wood Brothers Racing in 2027. A week later it was announced that O\u2019Reilly Series champion Jesse Love was his replacement.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m racing for my career,\u201d Berry said. \u201cI\u2019m not uncomfortable in that scenario. I\u2019ve been in this scenario plenty of times. You just work on it one day at a time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Entering the Richmond race, Berry had two consecutive top 10s, including a top five at Iowa. He admits it\u2019s frustrating because of the problems his team had at the season\u2019s beginning and then again in the middle when they had the misfortune of \u201cgetting caught up in stuff we had nothing to do with, and how quickly it buried us in points.\u201d After 23 races, Berry was 30th in the driver standings.<\/p>\n

\"NASCAR<\/p>\n

Jonathan Bachman\/\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like the narrative against me changed,\u201d Berry said. \u201cNow, we\u2019re coming off races where we\u2019ve ran up front and been fast, and it\u2019s going the other way again. I\u2019m not doing anything different than I did from the beginning of the year. I\u2019m still preparing the same. Things are clicking better, and cars have had speed, and we\u2019ve been executing and those things lead to better results.\u201d<\/p>\n

Berry admitted that he\u2019s at the point where the only thing he can do is focus on getting a good result in each of the season\u2019s 13 remaining races.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like if we turn this deal around and run like we have the last three races and find ourselves in the top five and top 10 and nothing materializes, it just shows more about the system than it does about me,\u201d Berry said.<\/p>\n

\"Lettermark\"<\/p>\n

A North Carolina native, Deb Williams is an award-winning motorsports journalist who is in her fourth decade covering auto racing. In addition to covering the sport for United Press International, she has written motorsports articles for several newspapers, magazines and websites including espnW.com<\/a>, USA Today, and The Charlotte Observer. Her awards include the American Motorsports Media Award of Excellence, two-time National Motorsports Press Association writer of the year, and two-time recipient of the Russ Catlin award. She also has won an award in the North Carolina Press Association\u2019s sports feature category.\u00a0 During her career, Deb has been managing editor of GT Motorsports magazine and was with Winston Cup Scene and NASCAR Winston Cup Scene for 18 years, serving as the publication\u2019s editor for 10 years. In 2024 she was inducted into the NMPA Hall of Fame.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Josh Berry says he\u2019s not close to finding a ride for 2027 and admits it\u2019s been a \u201cbit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,782,297788,784,237154,1642,634,297787,273948,82,183339],"class_list":["post-856206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-e24d6d09-5914-4e23-819c-5fd648f11d27","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-us","tag-nascar","tag-shorttitle-josh-berry-is-racing-for-his-nascar-career","tag-sponsored-false","tag-sports","tag-subsection-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856206","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=856206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}