Josh Berry dominates Saturday Night Thunder iRacing event at Richmond

Josh Berry held off Ty Majeski to win the second Saturday Night Thunder iRacing event at virtual Richmond Raceway.

Berry dominated, leading 106 laps in the 125-lap race on the .750-mile D-shaped oval. Even two late-race crashes didn’t impact Berry’s path to victory lane.

“It was a good race,” said Berry, who drove the No. 88 for JR Motorsports. “I felt like I was pretty good, me and Ty were pretty close and that it would come down to whoever lost track position.

“On that one (second-to-last) restart, a couple guys took two (tires) and Ty was in the wrong lane and lost a bunch of track position and that was probably the difference for me to get away.”

While frustrated at finishing second, Majeski praised Berry for running a clean race.

“It was certainly frustrating, but overall I feel we finished where we deserved tonight,” Majeski said. “Josh was just a little bit better. We could trade off lap times, but he was much more consistent. That was the difference.”

Third through fifth were Chase Cabre, Ty Gibbs and pole sitter Landon Cassill. Sixth through 10th were Will Rodgers, Anthony Alfredo, Kaz Grala, Logan Seavey and Bayley Currey.

The race was run in Xfinity Series cars. The event was open to NASCAR Xfinity Series, Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series, NASCAR Peak Mexico Series, Pinty’s Series, Whelen Euro Series and ARCA Menards Series drivers.

The event featured three heat races that transferred six drivers each to the feature, as well as two last chance qualifying races that transferred another eight drivers to make for a 26-car field.

CHECKERED FLAG: @joshberry puts on a show in dominating fashion, taking the Saturday Night Thunder victory at the virtual @RichmondRaceway! 🏁 pic.twitter.com/X2ETB34szH

— NASCAR (@NASCAR) April 19, 2020

FINAL RESULTS:

MAIN EVENT:

1. Josh Berry
2. Ty Majeski
3. Chase Cabre
4. Ty Gibbs
5. Landon Cassill
6. Will Rodgers
7. Anthony Alfredo
8. Kaz Grala
9. Logan Seavey
10. Bayley Currey
11. Landon Huffman
12. Derek Kraus
13. Blake Koch
14. Ruben Garcia Jr.
15. Josh Bilicki
16. Scott Stenzel
17. Jeb Burton
18. Cole Custer
19. Michael McDowell
20. Austin Cindric
21. Brennan Poole
22. Chase Briscoe
23. Matt Mills
24. Alex Labbe
25. Justin Allgaier
26. Ryan Truex

Pole winner: Landon Cassill

Heat 1 (10 laps -- top six drivers advance to main event):

1. Landon Cassill
2. Anthony Alfredo
3. Chase Briscoe
4. Kaz Grala
5. Logan Seavey
6. Will Rodgers
7. Justin Allgaier
8. Austin Cindric
9. Jesse Iwuji
10. JJ Yeley
11. Brennan Poole
12. Todd Gilliland
13. Joey Gase
14. Christian Eckes
15. Michael Annett

Heat 2 (10 laps -- top six drivers advance to main event):

1. Ty Majeski
2. Alex Labbe
3. Landon Huffman
4. Cole Custer
5. Jeb Burton
6. Matt Mills
7. Chad Finchum
8. Joe Graf Jr.
9. Scott Stenzel
10. Harrison Burton
11. Spencer Boyd
12. Michael McDowell
13. Blake Koch
14. Drew Dollar

Heat 3 (10 laps -- top six drivers advance to main event):

1. Josh Berry
2. Chase Cabre
3. Bayley Currey
4. Ty Gibbs
5. Derek Kraus
6. Josh Bilicki
7. Ryan Truex
8. Ruben Garcia Jr.
9. Stephen Leicht
10. Myatt Snider
11. Stewart Friesen
12. Ryan Ellis
13. Noah Gragson
14. Angela Ruch

Last Chance qualifying race No. 1 (15 laps -- top four drivers advance to main event):

1. Justin Allgaier,
2. Ryan Truex
3. Brennan Poole
4. Michael McDowell
5. Jesse Iwuji
6. Harrison Burton
7. Drew Dollar
8. Stewart Friesen
9. Joey Gase
10. Joe Graf Jr.
11. Noah Gragson
12. Stephen Leicht

Last Chance qualifying race No. 2 (15 laps -- top four drivers advance to main event):

1. Ruben Garcia Jr.
2. Blake Koch
3. Austin Cindric
4. Scott Stenzel
5. Chad Finchum
6. Myatt Snider
7. Spencer Boyd
8. JJ Yeley
9. Christian Eckes
10. Todd Gilliland
11. Ryan Ellis
12. Angela Ruch
13. Michael Annett

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