{"id":254367,"date":"2026-07-23T20:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/dale-earnhardt-jr-afraid-to-see-what-happens-to-josh-berry-amid-crappy-outlook\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T20:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T20:11:08","slug":"dale-earnhardt-jr-afraid-to-see-what-happens-to-josh-berry-amid-crappy-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/dale-earnhardt-jr-afraid-to-see-what-happens-to-josh-berry-amid-crappy-outlook\/","title":{"rendered":"Dale Earnhardt Jr. afraid to see what happens to Josh Berry amid &#8216;crappy&#8217; outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Josh Berry&#8217;s 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nascar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASCAR\u00a0<\/a>Cup Series season has been tumultuous, and it took a turn for the worse Sunday at North Wilkesboro Speedway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Berry finished 36th after being involved in a Lap 199 crash. He&#8217;s 33rd of 35 full-time Cup drivers and is currently hunting for a ride for next season after the news broke in June that Jesse Love would be taking over his seat with the Wood Brothers in 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dale Earnhardt Jr., who owned cars that Berry drove to numerous victories, including five in the NASCAR O&#8217;Reilly Auto Parts Series, feels for the Hendersonville, Tennessee, native, especially given that there aren&#8217;t many Cup rides available for next season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Dale Jr. doesn&#8217;t know what went wrong with Josh Berry, Wood Brothers pairing<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;They had this really solid first year,&#8221; Earnhardt Jr. said Tuesday of the Berry-WBR pairing on the Dale Jr. Download. &#8220;He wins a race at Vegas. Looked like it was going to be positive. I do not know what has happened. I really don&#8217;t. I think the world of the Wood Brothers. But I don&#8217;t know what has happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n    !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n    {if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n    n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\n    if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\n    n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\n    t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window, document,'script',\n    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n    fbq('init', '1324276914788316');\n    fbq('track', 'PageView');\n  <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yardbarker.com\/nascar\/articles\/dale_earnhardt_jr_afraid_to_see_what_happens_to_josh_berry_amid_crappy_outlook\/s1_13132_44087309\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Berry&#8217;s 2026 NASCAR\u00a0Cup Series season has been tumultuous, and it took a turn for the worse Sunday at North Wilkesboro Speedway.\u00a0 Berry finished 36th after being involved in a Lap 199 crash. He&#8217;s 33rd of 35 full-time Cup drivers and is currently hunting for a ride for next season after the news broke in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":254368,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6806],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-254367","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gossip"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}