American racing driver
Josh Richards Richards in 2012
Born Joshua Richards (1988-03-22 ) March 22, 1988 (age 36) Shinnston, West Virginia Debut season 2004 Current team Boom Briggs Racing Car number 1R Starts 474 Championships 2009, 2010, 2013, 2016 Wins 78 Poles 19 Best finish 1st in 2009, 2010, 2013, 2016 Finished last season 39th (2021 ) Debut season 2004 Current team Boom Briggs Racing Car number 1R Starts 326 Championships 2017 Wins 33 Poles 24 Best finish 1st in 2017 Finished last season 8th (2021 ) NASCAR driver
14 races run over 1 year 2012 position27th Best finish 27th (2012 ) First race 2012 Aaron's 312 (Talladega )Last race 2012 Kentucky 300 (Kentucky )
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9 races run over 2 years Best finish 30th (2011 ) First race 2011 UNOH 225 (Kentucky )Last race 2012 Kroger 200 (Martinsville )
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Statistics current as of April 3, 2022.
Joshua Richards (born March 22, 1988) is an American former professional stock car racing driver from Shinnston, West Virginia .[ 1] He last competed full-time in the World of Outlaws Late Model Series , in the No. 1R Rocket Chassis for Boom Briggs Racing, where he had been a champion in 2009, 2010, 2013, and 2016. Richards was also a champion in the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series in 2017.
Richards has also raced on asphalt. He competed in the ARCA Racing Series , NASCAR K&N Pro Series East , NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and peaked with 14 starts in the 2012 NASCAR Nationwide Series .[ 1]
Racing career
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NASCAR and ARCA
Richards' 2012 Xfinity car at Road America
Richards raced in eight NASCAR Truck races in 2011 with a top finish of thirteenth at Talladega .[ 1] In 2012, he raced in one Truck race and fourteen Nationwide races.[ 1] His best Nationwide finish was a sixteenth-place finish at Daytona .[ 1] He made a few dirt late model starts in 2012, and switch back to late models in 2013 after he had no stock car ride.[ 2]
Dirt track racing
2018 Lucas Oil Late Model
Richards emerging from his 2018 Late Model
Richards raced the house car for his father's Rocket Chassis team in national dirt late model series for eleven years until 2016.[ 3] He won the World of Outlaws Late Model Series in 2009, 2010, and 2013.[ 3] He raced for Best Performance Motorsports in 2016 and won the World of Outlaws championship in a Rocket chassis as well as the 2017 Lucas Oil championship.[ 3] He switched to Clint Bowyer Racing in 2019, remaining in a Rocket chassis.[ 4] [ 3] As of 2019, Richards has over 100 wins in Lucas Oil and World of Outlaws competition.[ 3] Richards won his third dirt late model race of 2020 at Eldora Speedway by winning the $10,000 opening night of the Intercontinental Classic against a field of invitation-only drivers.[ 5]
Motorsports career results
NASCAR
(key ) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led. )
Nationwide Series
Camping World Truck Series
1 Ineligible for series points
K&N Pro Series East
ARCA Racing Series
(key ) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led. )
References
^ a b c d e "Driver Josh Richards Career Statistics - Racing-Reference.info" . racing-reference.info . Retrieved May 31, 2018 .
^ McWilliams, Chris (10 February 2013). "Josh Richards Returns Full-Time to WoO Late Models With New Sponsor" . OneDirt . Archived from the original on 12 October 2019. Retrieved October 12, 2019 .
^ a b c d e Pope, Thomas (October 2019). Why the House Usually Wins . Speedway Illustrated. pp. 66– 70.
^ Staff, SPEED SPORT (27 November 2018). "Josh Richards Joins Clint Bowyer Racing" . SPEED SPORT . Retrieved October 12, 2019 .
^ "Intercontinental Classic at Eldora Speedway". Intercontinental Classic . September 10, 2020. Event occurs at 21:45. FloRacing .
^ "Josh Richards – 2012 NASCAR Nationwide Series Results" . Racing-Reference . NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved August 30, 2020 .
^ "Josh Richards – 2011 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results" . Racing-Reference . NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved August 30, 2020 .
^ "Josh Richards – 2012 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results" . Racing-Reference . NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved August 30, 2020 .
^ "Josh Richards – 2009 NASCAR Camping World East Series Results" . Racing-Reference . NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved August 30, 2020 .
^ "Josh Richards – 2010 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East Results" . Racing-Reference . NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved August 30, 2020 .
^ "Josh Richards – 2007 ARCA Re/Max Series Results" . Racing-Reference . NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved August 30, 2020 .
^ "Josh Richards – 2009 ARCA Re/Max Series Results" . Racing-Reference . NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved August 30, 2020 .
^ "Josh Richards – 2010 ARCA Racing Series Results" . Racing-Reference . NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved August 30, 2020 .
^ "Josh Richards – 2011 ARCA Racing Series Results" . Racing-Reference . NASCAR Digital Media, LLC. Retrieved August 30, 2020 .
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Billy Ballew
Christopher Beckington
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