Stewart-Haas Racing has set a "major announcement" for Wednesday afternoon, where it is expected that Josh Berry will be named as the driver to replace the retiring Kevin Harvick starting in 2024.
Harvick is among those slated to appear at the announcement, as is his current crew chief Rodney Childers, who possibly would assume the same role for Berry.
Childers, a former race-car driver, would likely be the optimal pairing for Berry, a 32-year-old driver who has spent several years competing at regional levels until going full-time Xfinity Series racing in 2022 with JR Motorsports.
Berry won twice running a partial Xfinity schedule in 2021 and then three times last year on his way to finishing fourth in the series standings. He sits fifth in the 2023 standings in a year where he also has driven in eight Cup races — with one top-5 and three top-10s — in a substitute role for injured Hendrick Motorsports drivers Chase Elliott and Alex Bowman.
"Certainly, everybody has known his talent watching him in other forms of racing, late models, and the Xfinity Series," said four-time Cup champion and Hendrick Motorsports vice chairman Jeff Gordon in April. "You have to put him in other cars with other teams and other people to really see how far he could take it.
"I think he's got a future in the Cup Series."
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