Josh Berry has been consistently a good performer for Dale Earnhardt Jr’s owned team JR Motorsports. Moreover, he has proven on the given opportunities in a Cup run as well. When Mr. H was looking for the driver for the #9 team as Chase Elliott was injured and wasn’t able to race six races. Josh Berry came to his place and brought important points for the #9 team. Moreover, HMS’ other driver Alex Bowman broke his Vertebra in a Sprint race, and once again Berry comes in and again dominated for the team. In fact, in place of Bowman, Berry ran the All-Star Race and notably, he made his place from The All-Star Open to the main event which was one notable achievement for a driver.

Well, Stewart Haas was looking to fill their void as their champion driver Kevin Harvick is sadly taking retirement for NASCAR. So, Josh Berry’s outstanding performances whenever he got a chance in Hendrick’s team, he become limelight and deserved the #4 seat. And finally, he is going to drive that car in 2024.

Josh Berry Accepts His Mistake For Dale Earnhardt Jr’s Loss

As discussed, Josh Berry is a great performer in terms of racing and proved himself whenever he got the chance. But during his recent Xfinity run, things don’t work out well at the end of Pocono 225 and Dale Earnhardt Jr faced a huge loss.

Josh Berry started the race from the pole position and was impossible to lead most of the laps during the race. However, things changed for the JRM driver after #19 of Connor Mosack crashed ahead of 5 laps to end the race. Due to 5th caution, and coming at the end of the stage, the race was pushed to overtime.

Surprisingly, after the green flag waved for 3 laps to go, Austin Hill pushed hard himself and somehow passed Josh Berry. During the door-to-door battle between the two lead cars, Berry made slight contact with Hill’s car and lost momentum. However, Berry was trying to control his car but, somehow he lost control and dragged his car into his teammate Sam Mayer.

Sam was having a good run and seemed like he will be able to pass leader Austin Hill as well, but content from Berry on to the number 1 car’s left door lose his momentum too. And ultimately, Dale Earnhardt’s #1 car finished second and Josh Berry finished 24th.

Following the loss of Dale Jr’s team, Josh Berry accepted his mistake and said after the race, “Tried to get away from them on a straightway and this was a little late Sam must’ve had a huge run it was hard to tell that I didn’t really I knew he had a run but I thought I covered it quick enough but obviously didn’t but yeah tough way to end for sure.”

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Josh Berry Shares About His Audition for SHR

Everyone used to think that Josh Berry was selected in the place of Kevin Harvick based on his great performance with giving the opportunity to replace Chase Elliott. Naturally, Josh Berry revealed that he was talking to the Stewart Haas Racing team about that #4 seat from the beginning of the season.

So, when he coincidentally gets a chance to take over Elliott’s car, he felt like he is giving an audition for SHR as they might be looking on to his performance and rightfully so they were.

Berry recently shared, “was amidst of some conversations with Stuart Haas about the #4 car. And you know, right in the midst of that, Chase gets injured, and they choose me to drive the car. And I get that five-race stint there in the #9. Which I don’t know that that I personally he called it a, you know if we felt like it was really an audition, but it was.”

Josh continued, “I didn’t I didn’t really try not to think of it that way. But I know that everyone at Stewart Haas was paying very close attention to how I would, how I did. Luckily it went well and you know, I’ll be a full-time Cup driver next year.”

Fans are waiting to see Berry behind the wheel of #4 but are sad to see Harvick saying goodbye to his iconic career. And top of all, the NASCAR community is looking to fill the void that Harvick’s absence is going to create for drivers.

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