Track Specs: .500-mile oval / 100-lap feature
Berry’s start/finish: 16th/4th
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. (March 26, 2018) – Josh Berry drove his All Things Automotive Chevrolet to a fourth-place finish Saturday night at Myrtle Beach Speedway in the second CARS Response Energy Late Model Stock Car Series event of the season. Teammate Sam Mayer was 15th in his Menard’s/JR Motorsports Chevrolet.
Berry qualified 16th for the Late Model Stock Car part of the BakerDist.com 200 on the big half-mile oval—at which he won the Myrtle Beach 400 last year. During qualifying, a car pulled out right in front of him, and that cost him in the end. As Myrtle Beach is notoriously hard on tires, it wasn’t a huge problem, but did interfere with Berry’s race strategy.
That strategy consisted of saving as much of his tires as he could, and he rode in 20th spot until a competition caution 40 laps in. From there, he set off toward the front of the field and made it as high as fourth with 15 laps remaining before finishing there at the checkered flag.
Lee Pulliam won the race over Ronald Hill, Justin Johnson, Berry and Bobby McCarty.
The JR Motorsports teams will next see action on April 7, when the CARS Response Energy Tour heads to Wake County Speedway near Raleigh.
Josh Berry, driver No. 88 All Things Automotive Chevrolet team
“We had a really good car in practice, but for some reason when we put on our race tires, we lost speed somewhere. The race got pretty strung out, and I felt like they were setting a pretty fast pace. We dropped back to around 20th saving the tires, but I'm not sure if we could've gave up a bit more track position in the beginning. Either way, I still feel like we were missing some speed from where we were in practice and that ended up being the difference. We were still able to work our way up to fourth which was solid. We will work hard and be ready for the next one. Thank you All Things Automotive and all our guys for the hard work this weekend.”