The No. 88 Chevrolet has had better weekends — both in Daytona and much farther away, across the Atlantic.
A former Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevy SS driven by Ed Berrier crashed Sunday during the Goodwood Festival of Speed, impacting the hay bales just off the first corner. The annual hill climb on Lord March’s estate in England features historic vehicles from all walks of motorsports.
Berrier, a former driver who holds the distinction of winning the final XFINITY Series race at Hickory Motor Speedway, has driven at Goodwood before. This year, however, he was at the tail end of the 43 entrants in the timed rally.
The NASCAR world was well represented at the four-day event, which is part car show, part exhibition and part competition — all with plenty of rare machinery participating.
Longtime NASCAR Camping World Truck Series driver Mike Skinner wowed the Goodwood crowd with plenty of smoky burnouts in his No. 5 Toyota Tundra in preliminary events. In the Sunday Shootout, he led the NASCAR delegation with an impressive sixth-place run overall, pouring it on with an on-the-edge charge up the hill. He also briefly turned the steering wheel over to WWE wrestler Goldberg.
Billy Johnson wrapped up a busy two-week stretch. After making his Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series debut at Sonoma on June 25, he was in Goodwood the following weekend, securing 13th overall in a Ford Mustang GT4.
Johnson was just ahead of a pair of representatives from the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series. Thomas Ferrando was 14th overall, just .02 seconds ahead of series CEO Jerome Galpin.
Other former NASCAR drivers turned out for the exhibition portions. Bobby Labonte, the 2000 premier-series champ, drove a former Richard Petty No. 43 STP Pontiac. Kerry Earnhardt powered a Richard Childress Racing No. 3 Goodwrench Chevrolet once driven by his father up the hill, nailing some burnouts along the way.