Garrett Smithley is ready to run his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Sequence race at Talladega Superspeedway on Saturday, driving the #02 Chevrolet Silverado for Younger’s Motorsports.
Smithley will hope his second try for Younger’s goes higher than the primary when drove the #20 at Texas in 2022 however didn’t qualify. This time, with the #02 sitting twenty-ninth in proprietor factors, he has extra insurance coverage to make the race.
His final Truck race was at Charlotte in 2020, the place he retired resulting from a mechanical failure and was categorized thirty-sixth with Niece Motorsports. Though his first nationwide sequence motion got here within the sequence in 2015, his Truck expertise is comparatively scant in comparison with the Cup and Xfinity Sequence with simply 9 whole begins. Smithley’s greatest end is a fourteenth on the 2015 Michigan race for MB Motorsports.
A lot of his 2023 itinerary is on the Xfinity stage. He started the season because the full-time driver at B.J. McLeod Motorsports however left after a disastrous begin by which rainouts stored him off the grid for the primary two races, adopted by a one-off at DGM Racing earlier than reuniting along with his longtime employer JD Motorsports. Further struggles relegated him to a restricted calendar for the remainder of the yr.
His greatest end thus far of the Xfinity season is a sixteenth at Talladega and Daytona. In seven profession Xfinity races at Talladega, he has a pair of prime tens and a greatest run of eighth in 2020.
The #02 began 2023 with Kris Wright as the primary driver till he was dropped eleven rounds in. The following 9 races noticed the truck get cut up between seven completely different drivers: Josh Bilicki, Chris Hacker, Kayden Honeycutt, Matt Mills, Stefan Parsons, Layne Riggs, and Will Rodgers. Wright stays the one driver with top-twenty finishes within the #02, the very best being a twelfth at Texas.
