Josh Berry picks up first Top-5 of 2025
AVONDALE, Ariz. — Josh Berry picked up his highest finish of the season with his fourth-place effort Sunday in the Shriner’s Children 500.
Berry, who started fourth, picked up his first Top-10 and Top-5 effort at Phoenix Raceway, earning additional points with Top-10 finishes in the opening two stages.
“I felt like myself again,” Berry said. “It is amazing what you can do when the car is handling like that. It was really solid and staying underneath me. I am super proud of these guys.”
Before Phoenix, Berry’s last Top-5 and Top-10 effort was a third-place finish at Loudon last July when he was racing for Stewart-Haas Racing.
Berry earned the fourth-most points of the race, only behind second-place Denny Hamlin (43 points), sixth-place William Byron (49 points) and Christopher Bell (57 points).
“This racetrack was pretty tough for me last year and these guys have great cars, without a doubt here,” Berry said. “That was proven again today and we executed pretty solidly and was able to get a good finish which is really good.”
Berry is ranked 21st in driver’s points, 15 behind the cutline entering Las Vegas Motor Speedway next weekend. Twenty-two races remain before the start of the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs.
The Wood Brothers Racing driver spring boarded 11 position in points after Phoenix.
In the first three races, Berry finished 37th in the Daytona 500, followed by a last-lap crash at Atlanta and 25th-place finish, and 26th at COTA.
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Dominic Aragon is currently the editor-in-chief for The Racing Experts.
From Grants, New Mexico, USA, Aragon started watching NASCAR in 2004 and has been covering the sport since 2009. Aragon is a 2012 graduate of Grants High School and a May 2016 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism. Aragon has worked in local and national media, as a musician, and an educator. He is co-author of the 2024 book "All of It: Daytona 500 Champion Tells the Rest of the Story" with racer Geoff Bodine.
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