After showing good speed at Daytona and especially at Atlanta, and running well late in last Sunday’s race at COTA, Josh Berry and the No. 21 eero team are headed to Phoenix Raceway. They are hoping to start getting the strong finishes that have eluded them in the first three weeks of the 2025 season.
Berry has been involved in late-race multi-car incidents in all three races this year. Two of those were on drafting style tracks and the other on a road course, while Phoenix races more like the majority of tracks on the circuit.
Miles Stanley is crew chief of the No. 21 Mustang Dark Horse that will carry the colors of eero, the innovative WiFi system that uses multiple access points to provide fast, reliable coverage on a single network. He said he is optimistic about his team’s chances in this weekend’s Shriners Children’s 500 at the relatively flat one-mile oval in the Arizona desert.
“I’m looking forward to getting to Phoenix and getting into the core of our regular season,” he said. “I think this track suits some of Josh’s strengths, as well as our team’s. The biggest curveball this weekend will be the option tire, which adds a new layer of strategy. It’ll be interesting to see how teams use it to differentiate themselves, creating more variability in the field and, ultimately, more passing.”
There will be a 45-minute practice session on Saturday at 12:05 p.m. local time to be followed by qualifying at 1:10 p.m. Amazon Prime will air the TV broadcast beginning at 2:05 p.m. Eastern Time. Sunday’s 312-mile, 312-lap race is set to get the green flag just after 12:30 p.m. (3:30 p.m. Eastern Time) with Stage breaks at 60 and 185 laps. FOX Sports 1 will carry the TV coverage.