Smith the Rookie of the Year in . Ty Dillon was forced to pit with four laps to go and had a tire get loose during his stop. Saying "hello" to an early flight to Fontana, Calif. tomorrow.Let's grab our first top-10 of the season Saturday at @AutoClubSpdwy for the @KauligRacing No. Chandler Smith 4.750. His 175.022 mph qualifying lap was 6 mph slower than polesitter Alex Bowman and dead last among cars making it onto the track. 17 Ford at RFK Racing at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway when Buescher was sidelined due to COVID-19 protocols. Fought a really tough truck. NASCAR officials arent wrong in assuming that owners of chartered cars dont want to take unnecessary risks on superspeedways. Even Cup Series rookies Ty Gibbs and Noah Gragson logged a combined 33 Cup Series starts a year ago. Todd Bodine slammed the wall early in his 800th career NASCAR start and the final scheduled one of his career. Replay: Christian Eckes goes around after a battle for the lead with Kyle Busch! A wreck from stage sweeper Rhodes capped off a pattern of cautions and triggered a restart with 24 laps to go. "But then I am sitting there as the leader and I'm like, 'Man, I am a sitting duck. While Im 100 percent focused now on the Truck Series playoffs and racing to win a championship for our partners, Im excited for what the future holds next season as I get the opportunity to also compete at the next level and continue to grow as a race car driver.. FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) Damion Baugh scored a career-high 24 points, Emanuel Miller had 20 and No. "I had a lot of work to do," Rhodes said. 38 Ford team continues opening the 2022 season with another impressive run. 16 Chevy in the 2023 Xfinity Series. 16 car!Or, you know, something better than a top-10 #CS16 pic.twitter.com/UAfiGFD2Yp. They say Zane Smith was DQd due to a lug nut violation. LONG POND, Pa. (AP) Zane Smith clinched the regular season NASCAR Truck Series championship and Chandler Smith took the checkered flag Saturday at Pocono Raceway. You wouldnt know it by looking at the stages winner, but Kyle Busch Motorsports was the team to beat all night. . He led 49 of 60 laps on the 2-mile tri-oval track. Chandler Smith outdueled Zane Smith after a late-race restart to take his third career NASCAR Camping World Truck Series victory and first win of 2022 on Friday, March 4 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. LIVE Transfer Talk: Newcastle's Guimaraes on Real Madrid radar, Meet the man scouring Nigeria for the next generation of NBA and NFL talent, Barca's Oshoala reigns supreme with three hat-tricks in six matches, Nigeria's Kwara Falcons know they'll be underdogs at the BAL, Oral history: When Barcelona, Real Madrid played four Clasicos in 18 days back in 2011. The two Smiths were side-by-side under the white banner as they crossed the line for the last lap. Replay: Todd Bodine goes around in Vegas. Majeski had claimed the first berth for ThorSport Racing with his first career Truck Series win in Bristol last month. Who can crash their party? Point Report:A win on Friday night grants Chandler Smith a spot in the Truck Series playoffs in 2022 and the points lead after two races. After winning seven ARCA Menards Series races in 2019-20, Smith landed a full-time truck series ride with Kyle Busch Motorsports in 2021 and won twice, including the Championship 4 in Phoenix though he wasnt in title contention. Heck, maybe Ill have to make 801, he said. He led 49 of 60 laps on the 2-mile tri-oval track. Logano remained out front of a single-file line with five laps to go with Harvick tucked in close behind him. Zane Smith's DQ drops him to a last-place finish and as a result he will be scored in 36th for the second race of the season. 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Post-race inspection did confirm Chandler Smith as the race winner. He made an impromptu debut in the Cup Series earlier this season, substituting for Chris Buescher in the June 5 race at Gateway and finished 17th. The run to the championship opens Friday at Indianapolis Raceway Park. At the halfway mark, Blaney remained out front followed by Wallace and Logano but more than half the field still had to make a pit stop. Chandler Smith won his second race of the season driving for Kyle Busch Motorsports and is one of only two drivers in the playoff field with multiple wins this season. Im glad were on to the playoffs and ready to get this season started.. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. After Bowman and Byron both took brief stints in the lead, Blaney ended up leading the first lap. 38 Ford with Todd Gilliland, who was once set to be a full-time driver for the second straight year, throughout the season. Can someone explain what the violation was? Weve been going through a little bit of a struggle recently, Chandler Smith said. Thanks to a few late-race cautions involving many front-running trucks, Bodine had found himself pack on the lead lap by the end of the race and was able to rally to a 22nd-place finish. Luckily, there is a silver lining to being in the back of the field its away from trouble. ET on Thursday, February 16. Smith held off reigning Truck Series champion Ben Rhodes and Chandler Smith in a two-lap overtime sprint Friday night to win at Phoenix Raceway and at last win the series title. "It's racing. Majeski, Crafton, Rhodes and Eckes all drive for ThorSport Racing. In fact, it really started in the afternoon during qualifying. Front Row Motorsports has a lot of great momentum now, not only with their Truck Series program, but also with their Cup Series program, said Smith. In this case, it had to do with the lug nuts themselves were to spec., rule 14.16.1 1-4. https://nascar.com/news-media/2022/03/05/no-38-front-row-motorsports-truck-of-zane-smith-disqualified-at-las-vegas/, A daily email update (Monday through Friday) providing racing news, commentary, features, and information from Frontstretch.com, Im not interested, don't show this again, Thad Moffitt Discusses New Truck Series Ride & Being Part of Petty Lineage, Truckin' Thursdays: Todd Bodine Makes NASCAR Truck Series Return at Las Vegas. Majeski, Crafton, Rhodes and Eckes all drive for ThorSport Racing. I said, 'That's my buddy. Two-time series champion Todd Bodine finally returned to hectic Truck Series competition for the first time since his last series race in 2013 to make six more starts in what is meant to be his last season before retirement. 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Im glad were on to the playoffs and ready to get this season started.. This is part of the game.. Unfortunately for the Front Row Motorsports driver, he became subject to a pit road speeding penalty which put him behind late in the event and out of contention. ET on Wednesday, February 15. Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Discover more CRAFTSMAN Trucks Final Laps videos below. "We've been going through a little bit of a struggle recently," Chandler Smith said. 3-for-3@KBMteam trucks are leading the way. Zane Smith was the Truck series runner-up in each of the past two seasons and hoped his success -- he has three wins -- over the first 16 races can better position him to win his first championship. Zane Smith and Chandler Smith (they are not related), Ben Rhodes, John Hunter Nemechek, Stewart Friesen, Christian Eckes, Ty Majeski, Carson Hocevar, Grant Enfinger and Matt Crafton are in the . On Lap 12, Zane Smith was the highest running non-charter driver in the 10th position. A two-time Truck series champion, Bodine ran a limited schedule the past few seasons. LONG POND, Pa. -- Zane Smith clinched the regular-season NASCAR Truck Series championship and Chandler Smith took the checkered flag Saturday at Pocono Raceway. 16 @QTP_Inc @KauligRacing @chevrolet Camaro. With eight laps to go, Rhodes was battling side by side with teammate Matt Crafton but pulled ahead for a sixth-place finish. "We certainly have momentum on or side winning two of the last three," Majeski said. Stage 1: Ben RhodesStage 2: Ben RhodesStage 3: ?!? 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Zane Smith ended up eighth and the top-finishing non-chartered team, which locks him into Sundays Daytona 500 field. Begin a free trial of FuboTV now and dont miss any of the action! https://t.co/3A53tNOCuI, FOX: NASCAR (@NASCARONFOX) March 5, 2022. Last summer, Front Row Motorsports announced that Zane Smith, who went on to win the 2022 NASCAR Truck Series championship for the team, would compete in select races for the organization. I knew I only had to get a couple of points, to clinch, Smith said. 2-Headed Monster: Is Kyle Busch Still Viewed as NASCARs Villain? He finished last in 36th place at Pocono. The result was far and away from the glory days of the Onions championship-winning seasons, but much better than where he almost ended up in his long-awaited return. With 25 laps to go, Logano maintained a small advantage over Harvick, followed by Blaney and Buescher. Can the 58-year-old Bodine really go out this way? Are PSG better off without Neymar in big games? This is part of the game.. He led 49 of 60 laps on the 2-mile tri-oval track. Zane Smith restarted with the advantage over Chandler Smith on the final restart and with two laps to go, had him cleared on the backstretch. Tied for the playoff cut line with Crafton is Nemechek with Eckes close behind by only two points in 11th. We have a plan laid out for him and our next step will be to put Zane and that team in NASCAR Cup Series races where we know we can be successful. NASCAR Mailbox: Did We Get Backstage Passes to Kyle Larson Show at Auto Club? 50 The Money Team Racing Chevrolet, Austin Hills No. It was a return almost a decade in the making. After a challenge from former KBM driver Christian Eckes, the trio was divided when the caution came out with less than 18 to go. Chandler Smith entered Saturday's determining race with a 27-point cushion over Rhodes, the winner of last year's championship, and a 12-point lead over Zane Smith. Logano the NASCAR Daytona 500 runner-up: "Second is the worst", Daytona 500 starting grid: How they line up for NASCAR Cup Series opener, 2023 Daytona 500 starting lineup In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Sure enough, Smiths Chevy experienced mechanical issues as soon as he took the track. Its definitely not how we wanted this to go, he said. All advice, including picks and predictions, is based on individual commentators opinions and not that of Minute Media or its related brands. Majeski, Crafton, Rhodes and Eckes all drive for ThorSport Racing. Smith, who clinched the 2022 regular season title in the Truck Series, will return to another fulltime season in the No. pic.twitter.com/0NpzQAOTRf, 2022 Cup Series Season in Review: Kaulig Racing. With an already-damaged truck, the New Yorker was running his own pace when he began to complain about how loose his Toyota was becoming. The 58-year-olds rough night started early after his first visit to pit road in 2022. Chandler Smith is a rookie in the Xfinity Series. 38 Ford F-150 for Front Row Motorsports and part-time in the NASCAR Cup Series, driving the Nos. NASCAR TV Schedule: March . 11-seed Oregon State upset sixth-seed USC 56-48 in an opening round of the Pac-12 Conference tournament, Reilly Smith scored off a pass from Michael Amadio with 3:42 left to give the Vegas Golden Knights a 3-2 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes, Privacy PolicyTerms of ServiceSign Up For Our NewslettersSite Map, Copyright 2023, The San Diego Union-Tribune |, Chandler Smith (18) leads the pack down the front straight on a restart of the NASCAR Truck Series auto race at Pocono Raceway, Saturday, July 23, 2022 in Long Pond, Pa. 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