Joshua Richards (born March 22, 1988) is an American former professional stock car racing driver from Shinnston, West Virginia. 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.

Racing career

NASCAR and ARCA

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.

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 the 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 Bowyer Racing in 2019, remaining in a Rocket chassis. As of 2019, Richards has over 100 wins in Lucas Oil and World of Outlaws competition. 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.

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 NASCAR Nationwide Series results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 Pts Ref 2012 Go Green Racing 39 Ford DAY PHO LVS BRI CAL TEX RCH TAL DAR IOW CLT DOV MCH ROA KEN DAY NHA CHI IND BRI ATL RCH CHI KEN DOV CLT KAN TEX PHO HOM 27th 256 Randy Hill Racing 08 Ford IOW GLN CGV

Camping World Truck Series NASCAR Camping World Truck Series results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Pts Ref 2011 Kyle Busch Motorsports 15 Toyota DAY PHO DAR MAR NSH DOV CLT KAN TEX KEN IOW ATL CHI NHA 30th 166 18 NSH IRP POC MCH 51 BRI KEN LVS TAL MAR TEX HOM 2012 Wauters Motorsports 5 Ford DAY MAR CAR KAN CLT DOV TEX KEN IOW CHI POC MCH BRI ATL IOW KEN LVS TAL MAR TEX PHO HOM 98th 01

Ineligible for series points

K&N Pro Series East NASCAR K&N Pro Series East results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Pts Ref 2009 Ken Schrader Racing 52 Chevy GRE TRI IOW SBO GLN NHA TMP ADI LRP 32nd 360 Dave Davis Motorsports 03 Chevy NHA Dodge DOV 2010 1 Chevy GRE SBO IOW MAR NHA LRP LEE JFC NHA DOV 39th 221

ARCA Racing Series (key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.) ARCA Racing Series results Year Team No. Make 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 Pts Ref 2007 Tony Stewart Racing 20 Chevy DAY USA NSH SLM KAN WIN KEN TOL IOW POC MCH BLN KEN POC NSH ISF MIL GTW DSF CHI SLM TAL TOL 102nd 215 2009 Venturini Motorsports 25 Chevy DAY SLM CAR TAL KEN TOL POC MCH MFD IOW KEN BLN POC ISF CHI TOL 120th 165 15 DSF NJE SLM KAN CAR 2010 Ken Schrader Racing 99 Chevy DAY PBE SLM TEX TAL TOL POC 76th 245 RAB Racing 99 Ford MCH IOW Venturini Motorsports 55 Chevy MFD POC BLN NJE ISF CHI DSF TOL SLM KAN CAR 2011 25 Toyota DAY TAL SLM TOL NJE CHI POC 36th 615 Chevy ISF MAD DSF SLM KAN TOL 15 Toyota MCH WIN BLN IOW IRP POC

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