Josh Berry will drive the legendary No. 21 car for Wood Brothers Racing in the 2025 NASCAR Cup Series season, as announced on Wednesday. With Stewart-Haas Racing dissolving following the 2024 season, Berry was looking for a new full-time ride and found one with WBR. It is unclear whether his current crew chief, Rodney Childers, will join him and the No. 21 squad, since WBR has stated that it will disclose who will be atop Berry’s pit box at a later date. The chance exists that the Berry/Childers relationship is over, but Childers’ feelings for Berry have not changed. He believes in himself and is confident that he has a great future.
“I can’t express how pleased I am for @joshberry. “He worked his buttocks off for a long time to get this chance,” Childers wrote on X. “This four-person team is grateful for the opportunity to show the world what he is capable of. “He’s a winner with a bright future.”
Josh Berry prepares to establish himself once more at Wood Brothers Racing. Berry and Childers built a good bond throughout their first season together and have continued to strengthen as the season progresses. Berry is 19 races into his first full-time season in the Cup Series and has four top 10s and two top 5s, including a season-high P3 at Darlington and New Hampshire. All of his top-10 finishes have occurred in the last seven starts.
WBR is currently a one-car team that has a technical relationship with Team Penske. David Pearson provided the team success in the 1970s, winning 43 races while driving the No. 21 car. Since then, things have not gone smoothly. A number of drivers have emerged since then, but the team has struggled since the turn of the century. Since Elliott Sadler’s victory in 2001, WBR has only won twice. Its most recent triumph came in 2017, when Ryan Blaney won at Pocono. WBR is still striving for their historic 100th Cup Series victory. “I feel like [WBR] are getting somebody that is not going to quit,” Berry told the press. “I’ve worked far too hard at
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