Nascar through the gears: Josh Berry wins Vegas, uses Wood Brothers to build his portfolio

Remember a few days ago when someone here (ahem)) Longshot winner suggested were much more possible on the strip of Las Vegas than the Las Vegas Motor Speedway?

What? Have you ever forgotten this?

Great, we evolve.

No, no one saw a victory for Josh Berry on Sunday to come. Just to be sure, a look back on the pre-Semaine Hard rock ratings Has showed Berry Smack -Dab in the middle of the rating board – 18th in a field of 36 men. The gain was at +7,500, which means that a small bet of $ 10 brought you $ 750.

Hell, a wrinkled male would have brought you $ 75. Register me every day for this transaction and, obviously, twice Sunday.

Let’s enter the clutch and update to understand this and, along the way, touch the most enriched problems. That’s right. We return to the courts.

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First equipment: Wood Brothers has a story with this kind of thing

Since their glory days with David Pearson in the 1970s, and a few good years with Neil Bonnett in the early 80s, Wood Brothers Racing alternated between the launch of the ramp and something of a retirement ramp.

Young Elliott Sadler and Ryan Blaney, young Dale Jarrett and Michael Waltrip, and the Ramps Bill Elliott and Ricky Rudd all took turns at the wheel.

A wide variety of Nascar runners pedalled the Ford n ​​° 21, and yes, it has always been a Ford. Once a boutique off Broadway far from the beaten track in Virginia, the team has finally yielded to the need and has moved to Charlotte, and in recent years, it has mainly put an end to Roger Penske’s tent.

“Technical Alliance” is the way these things are described.

At speed? GOOD. Enter Josh Berry. Before Sunday, you may have known him as “this guy who went to high school with Taylor Swift”. But in racing circles (and oval), it could adapt between these types of runners who previously wore red and white of Wood Brothers, and that’s why …

Second speed: Josh Berry is more than the former classmate of Taylor Swift

After a largely unproductive season with the Stewart-Haas races which closed quickly last year, Berry is now in his second full-time season of Cup Series Racing. However, he is not a child, but a 34 -year -old man with a perfectly underway wallet – most you’ve never seen.

His most prominent race was three seasons of the XFINITY series (2021-23) with JR MOTORSPORTS JRY of Junior Earnhardt, where he won five times in 88 departures and finished fourth in the 22 championship.

But where he really muscular was on the series of stocks of models at the end of cars (the most recent name given to what started as Pro Cup Hooters in the 90s). There, where he left the JR Motorsports boutique, he collected trophies with superb regularity – 22 victories in 56 departures between 2015-222.

Interesting side note on these days of cars with Junior team. When you drive for JRM at this level, you only have a few full -time crew members, so the driver must help work on cars throughout the week. Which brings us to the post-victory burnout session of Berry in Vegas.

There was not many. Just a few noisy and somewhat smoked donuts. The full -fledged Burnets and the fusion of the tires – let us admit, we are above – can do serious damage to a racing car, and Berry has now become public with his respect for those who have to repair such things, largely because he was one of them, and not so long ago.

Or, as he explained with elegance: “… chewed my ass several times to make Burnnets when I should not and torn things.”

I hope that the more his example will follow. Then we will work on the idiots that explode the Foghorns after the hockey goals.

Third equipment: Nascar viewers are always crazy because for some, CW means can’t watch

The defending champion of the XFINITY Justin Allgaier series obtained his first victory of the season in Las Vegas.

Allgaier led over half of the 200 laps, including the last 49, and finished several car lengths in front of the finalist Aric Almirola. In other words, not a ton of late breed drama, and good things, because many people have missed it.

Again.

This is the first full season of the CW network of XFINITY coverage, and the network continues to alienate those who thought that the complete CW XFINITY coverage meant complete coverage. It turns out that, unlike the main networks, the CW gives a certain independence to its affiliate nation, which is why, for example, an affiliate can choose to broadcast a training ball game in the spring instead of the Vegas race.

Many things to work, it seems. But unless they rewrite all of their affiliation agreements and therefore do not change the entire business structure of the company, there is no response to this problem.

Fourth speed: lawyers fattened in 23xi, in the front row, case NASCAR

Was anyone keeping a trace of these billable legal hours?

You bet your tangible assets that they are.

“You continued me, so I continue you right away.

“Oh yeah? Well, I’m in Double-Chien A-Gonna.”

And it goes with the current antitrust costume involving NASCAR and two cutting teams – 23X and in the front row. An injunction last December granted the teams the use of its charters for the 2025 season. Nascar called on the injunction.

Last week, the teams submitted an official response to the call of the injunction by NASCAR. An audience for all of the above is scheduled for May 9 in Richmond, and suddenly, the great Gomez Addams come to my mind.

Gomez, of course, was the patriarch of the Addams family but also a lawyer sometimes practicing. In an episode, the family defends themselves in court with Gomez managing this defense. While predictable chaos ensues and the judge loses control, Gomez suggests the greatest line in the history of American jurisprudence.

“And another thing, your honor. Regardless of the verdict, we will call! ”

We are not yet at this stage, but we fill the gap.

Bonus equipment: Have you seen this overview?

Ok, that’s right, next generation cars have five gears and we should probably have five here on a weekly basis. But some of us are old Holdouts to four genes in H.

But some things require a fifth equipment, and this week, it is graciousness of the US Air Force Thunderbirds, which used a neighboring mountain range to improve the visual. Graceful God.

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This article originally appeared in Daytona Beach’s Journal: Nascar: Vegas brings a salary for Josh Berry, and more anger cw xfinity