Earlier this 12 months at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, Josh Berry earned his first profession Cup Collection win, taking the long-lasting No. 21 Wooden Brothers machine to Victory Lane. He additionally has 5 wins within the NASCAR Xfinity Collection, nevertheless it was the CARS Late Mannequin Tour the place he really made a reputation for himself.
Berry received the 2017 CARS Late Mannequin Inventory championship, accumulating 22 wins in simply 56 begins (most all-time). The CARS Tour acquired some primetime remedy on Friday night time with FOX Sports activities 1 broadcasting all the Window World 100 at North Wilkesboro reside, which instantly adopted qualifying for the NASCAR All-Star Race.
It is a uncommon deal with for the CARS Tour, and Berry hopes we get to see extra of that sooner or later.
“It’s clearly actually cool to get them on FS1,” mentioned Berry throughout a media availability on the monitor. “The largest factor, to me, is simply the racing is nice. Hopefully, tonight places on a great present, however they go to tons of various tracks round right here that placed on actually good racing, so the most important factor is I simply hope it attracts a great viewers and will get folks enthusiastic about it to the place they’ll do it extra usually.”
The race acquired off to an ungainly begin with about 15 vehicles concerned in a Lap 2 pileup, nevertheless it discovered its rhythm quickly after that with Landen Lewis capturing the win.
Berry vital of ARCA
Race winner William Sawalich
Picture by: NASCAR Media
“I’ll be sincere,” continued Berry. “I watch ARCA races and so they’re horrible. CARS Tour places a approach higher product on to be on TV and so they deserve a spot like that. I feel hopefully tonight they try this. Hopefully, they don’t get too loopy – everyone getting wild on tv. Hopefully, we will get the races began and keep on time, however I’m excited to see the way it does. I feel it’s a terrific product. The sequence is clearly actually aggressive. It’s extra aggressive than ever and far more aggressive than even once I was part of it, so it’s a number of positives for that deal. Hopefully, they knock it out of the ball park.”
The CARS Tour race featured 36 vehicles, with 15 ending on the lead lap. Objectively talking, it is truthful to say that the tour does put collectively far stronger fields than ARCA on most weeks. 26 vehicles began the newest occasion at Kansas, however a lot of these had been terribly off the tempo and parked their vehicles throughout the first 30 laps. Solely ten drivers have began every of the primary 4 races of the 12 months. In 2024, simply eight drivers ended up operating the total season.
Even nonetheless, Berry’s feedback irked some folks the mistaken approach with some criticizing him for tearing one sequence down whereas attempting to carry one other up. He does have some first-hand expertise in ARCA as properly, albeit restricted, operating two races in 2018 and 2022.
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