Josh Berry Scores His First NASCAR Cup Series Win At Las Vegas

NASCAR’s oldest team has its newest winner.

Josh Berry won the Pennzoil 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway with a commanding run to the checkered flag in the closing laps.

It was the first Cup Series win of his career and the 101st for the legendary Wood Brothers Racing, which was founded in 1950 and is NASCAR’s longest-running team.

Berry lined up alongside Daniel Suarez for a restart with 19 laps to go and the two ran door-to-door until Berry stuck a pass with 14 to go and never looked back.

Berry’s Ford Mustang Dark Horse immediately pulled away from Suarez and built an insurmountable gap over the next few laps.

“Man, it was our day, I just can’t believe it, such a battle with Daniel there at the end,” Berry said during his post-race interview on FS1. “Beating and banging at a mile-and-a-half’s crazy, but whoever was going to get out front was probably going to win and we were able to get in front.”

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The win comes in Berry’s fifth race for the team he joined this year and follows a fourth place finish at Phoenix. It likely puts Wood Brothers Racing in the playoffs for the second year in a row following Harrison Burton’s victory in the 2024 Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona, which was the team’s first win since Ryan Blaney won at Pocono in 2017.

Suarez was followed across the line by Ryan Preece, William Byron and his teammate Ross Chastain.

The Cup Series heads to Homestead-Miami Speedway on March 23 with Byron sitting atop the points standings ahead of Christopher Bell, Tyler Reddick, Chase Elliott and Alex Bowman.