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Zane Smith

Zane Smith

26-Year-Old Driver  
Front Row Motorsports
Front Row Motorsports
2024 Stats
Points
0
Starts
5
Wins
0
Poles
0
Top 5
3
Top 10
4
2024 Cup Stats
Points
505
Starts
36
Wins
0
Poles
0
Top 5
2
Top 10
4
2025 Fantasy Outlook
Smith makes the jump over the Xfinity Series and straight from trucks into the Cup Series in 2024. Spire Motorsports is expanding to three teams in the upcoming campaign and they've signed Smith to pilot the new No. 71 Chevrolet. The 24-year-old talent has nabbed nine victories, one championship and two runner-up points finishes in the Craftsman Truck Series. Those near-100 starts have yielded a lot of accomplishments and hardware for the trophy case. Smith has nine Cup Series starts to his credit with eight of them coming in some part-time duty last season. He's not completely unfamiliar with a Cup car and that's a good thing. Smith even earned a surprising Top-10 finish with Front Row Motorsports in the Coca-Cola 600 last season. He'll make a bid for Rookie of the Year in 2024, but will face some challenges to give Josh Berry much competition competing with this new race team. Read Past Outlooks
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Car No. 38 Ford
Crew Chief Ryan Bergenty
Rookie Year 2020
Birth Date 6/9/1999
Born Huntington Beach, California, United States
Country UNITED STATES
Wins Jack Link's 500 Pole
NASCAR Cup
April 26, 2025
Smith won the pole for the Jack Link's 500 NASCAR Cup Series race at Talladega Superspeedway on Saturday afternoon. He turned a fast lap of 182.174 mph.
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This pole qualifying session would offer an odd assortment of drivers in the final round. Smith would be the only driver to break the 182 mph mark and beat out Kyle Busch to capture the pole position for the Jack Link's 500. For the Front Row Motorsports driver it was his first-career pole in his 55th Cup Series start. Smith will roll off first Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway and look to capture his first Top 5 of the season.
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Past Fantasy Outlooks
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
Smith makes the jump over the Xfinity Series and straight from trucks into the Cup Series in 2024. Spire Motorsports is expanding to three teams in the upcoming campaign and they've signed Smith to pilot the new No. 71 Chevrolet. The 24-year-old talent has nabbed nine victories, one championship and two runner-up points finishes in the Craftsman Truck Series. Those near-100 starts have yielded a lot of accomplishments and hardware for the trophy case. Smith has nine Cup Series starts to his credit with eight of them coming in some part-time duty last season. He's not completely unfamiliar with a Cup car and that's a good thing. Smith even earned a surprising Top-10 finish with Front Row Motorsports in the Coca-Cola 600 last season. He'll make a bid for Rookie of the Year in 2024, but will face some challenges to give Josh Berry much competition competing with this new race team.
Everything came together for Smith to have a storybook season in 2022. The young FRM driver grabbed four victories, 14 Top-5 finishes and was the driver to beat most weekends of the season. It all culminated in a dominant season-ending performance at Phoenix where Smith won from the pole to capture the 2022 truck series title. He'll be back with this same team in the upcoming season and be tasked with the title defense. Chris Lawson will return at crew chief and the duo will look to build on the great season they had last year. With some of the truck series title contenders moving up the NASCAR ladder in the off-season, Smith has to be seen as the driver to beat in 2023.
Smith was one of the bigger free agent moves of the off-season. He jumps from GMS Racing to Front Row Motorsports in the upcoming season. Smith grabbed one win and 14 Top-10 finishes with his old team and that put him in the championship battle at Phoenix to end last season. He heated up to end last year and that put him in contention to win the title. Smith would pull up just a bit short, finishing fifth-place at Phoenix. However, it would place him second overall in the final driver standings. Smith will look to carry that success forward to FRM in 2022. Todd Gilliland drove this truck last season to one victory and 16 Top-10 finishes. So there's tons of potential here. Smith could push this team to new heights in the upcoming season.
Much like his GMS Racing teammate, Sheldon Creed, Smith came out of nowhere last season to win races and vie for the title. His rookie campaign in the Camping World Truck Series was quite impressive, claiming two victories and 13 Top-10 finishes. Smith would push Creed hard over those final three races of last season, claiming two runner-up and one third-place finish. However, that would be the difference in winning the championship and finishing runner-up. Smith will return to this strong race team in 2021 and once again be paired with the veteran crew chief, Kevin Manion. Entering the new season, GMS Racing seems to have all the momentum in this division of NASCAR and their young drivers appeared to be poised to reap the rewards.
Smith takes over the vaunted No. 21 team of GMS Racing this year. This is the same team that Johnny Sauter piloted to a championship in 2016 and 13 total victories between 2016 and 2018. The 20-year-old Californian will be paired with crew chief Kevin Manion and set out to capture the Rookie of the Year honors in the truck series. Smith raced an impressive 10-start schedule with JR Motorsports in the Xfinity Series last season. He earned seven Top 10's in those 10 starts. Now Smith will continue his NASCAR development with a full-time ride in the Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series. There's a lot of potential in this driver and team lineup, and Smith could be under-ranked in the middle teens to start the season.
The California native and next young face in the Xfinity Series will take over the reins of the No. 8 JRM Chevrolet for the departed champion, Tyler Reddick. Smith will race in eight events spread throughout the upcoming year, starting in March at Las Vegas and ending at Dover in October. The 19-year-old talent is fresh off a dominant campaign in the ARCA Series where he nabbed four victories and 12 Top-5 finishes en route to a runner-up finish in the final driver standings of that racing series. Smith will share this ride with other drivers that have yet to be named at the time of this writing. This is a strong race team that has taken both William Byron and Tyler Reddick to the last two Xfinity Series titles. It will be a different story in 2019, but tons of potential for the future with some good finishes along the way as well as a lot of lessons learned.
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Confirmed at Front Row Motorsports
NASCAR Cup
January 2, 2025
Smith is coming back to the No. 38 Ford Mustang Dark Horse. The 25-year-old Huntington Beach, Calif. native will again race for Front Row Motorsports in the NASCAR Cup Series beginning in 2025 under a multi-year agreement, NBC Sports reports.
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Runner-up Finish at Nashville
NASCAR Cup
June 30, 2024
Smith finished second in the Ally 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at Nashville Superspeedway Sunday afternoon.
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Runner-up Finish in Kansas
Craftsman Truck Series
May 4, 2024
Smith finished second in the Heart of America 200 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Kansas Speedway Saturday night.
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Third in Weather Guard Truck Race
Craftsman Truck Series
March 17, 2024
Smith finished third in the Weather Guard NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway Saturday night.
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To Spire Motorsports
NASCAR Cup
November 15, 2023
Bob Pockrass of Fox Sports reports that Smith will drive the No. 71 for Spire Motorsports in the NASCAR Cup Series next season.
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