Josh Richards


Josh Richards is an American professional stock car racing driver from Shinnston, West Virginia. He currently races dirt Late Models in the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series where he was the 2017 champion. Richards was a four-time champion in the World of Outlaws Late Model Series.
Richards has 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 Xfinity Series.

Dirt track racing

Richards raced the house car for his father's Rocket Chassis team in national dirt late model series for eleven years until 2016. He won World of Outlaws Late Model Series in 2009, 2010, and 2013. 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. He switched to Clint Bower Racing in 2019, remaining in a Rocket chassis. As of 2019, Richards has over 100 wins in Lucas Oil and World of Outlaws competition.

NASCAR career

Richards raced in eight NASCAR Truck races in 2011 with a top finish of thirteenth at Talladega. In 2012, he raced in one Truck race and fourteen Nationwide races. His best Nationwide finish was a sixteenth-place finish at Daytona. 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.

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