Josh Richards (racing driver)

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.

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.

NASCAR
(key) ( Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led. )

Camping World Truck Series
$1$ Ineligible for series points

ARCA Racing Series
(key) ( Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led. )