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Chandler Smith excludes Kyle Larson in the Bristol truck race

14 Feb 2025; Daytona Beach, Florida, USA; Nascar Truck series driver Chandler Smith (38) leads the field during Fresh’s Fresh in Florida 250 in Daytona International Speedway. Compulsory Credit: Peter Casey-Imagn Images

Bristol, Tenn – Chandler Smith, Friday night, the Bristol Motor Speedway’deki Weather Gardian Truck Race after leding, was far from ending.

The driver of the Front Row Motorsports Ford 38, then Nascar Cup series Moonlight Kyle Larson had to keep the season’s first Nascar craftsman’s victory on a seven -round line to claim the sixth of his career.

Smith also won the bonus of the $ 50,000 triple truck struggle bonus, which is the regular $ 50,000 Truck series.

According to Larson, Smith’s victory ended 0.934 seconds, the latter Nascar’s three national series of races searched for sweeping the weekend. Although Larson had 27 -round fresh tires from the racing winner to restart in the 244th round of 250, he could not do better than a second.

38 F-150’deki at the end of the season at the end of the season 11 hours of agreement Smith, “I’m more excited about myself for the team,” he said. “This group came together – two weeks before Daytona, we hired my crew Chief (Jon Leonard) …

“My life was really crazy, and there were many unknowns about the introduction of my future, and as I said, we had ridges against the wall by bringing this group together.

Smith took the lead from Corey Heim, who finished third in the third place for the return of Andres Perez on the back hill. This checked the control of the race for the last re -start to Smith, and immediately claimed himself from the upper lane.

In the second stage, after overcoming a strict road holding, Larson was a penalty for accelerating a pit path during the stage break, and he took the green flag behind Smith 243 and passed Heim for the second time, but the driver of Spire Motorsports no.

After putting 27 rounds on the tires during the stage break, Larson made a pit for fresh rubber in the 162th round, “We fell into the long run in the second stage – super tight,” he said. “Then I threw it to the Pit Way, but at the next stop, I think it probably helped us. …

He said: “We had a little advantage to move forward.

The second finish was not good enough to keep Larson’s hopes to sweep one weekend. With Nascar Xfinity series race on Saturday and Nascar Cup series race on Sunday, there will be two more chances in the victory this weekend.

Tyler ankrum fourth, then I followed Rhodes. Bayley Currey, Finish’ten 13 round of watching the problem before falling with the first stage of his career in the second stage won.

Smith led the racing twice for the highest 127 rounds, followed by Rajah Caruth, the front for 85 circuits in an inverse rubber strategy.

Reigning series champion Ty Majeski was eliminated in a 53rd round accident with Frankie Muniz, Stewart Friesen and Brandon Jones.

Heim manages Smith with 18 points in the series ranking and Majeski was 57 points third.

Nascar Craftsman Truck Series Race – Air Guard Truck Race

Bristol Motor Speedway

Bristol, Tennessee

Friday, April 11, 2025

1. (3) Chandler Smith, Ford, 250.

(11) Kyle Larson (I), Chevrolet, 250.

(4) Corey Heim, Toyota, 250.

4. (2) Tyler anchor, Chevrolet, 250.

5. (6) Ben Rhodes, Ford, 250.

6. (9) Layne Riggs, Ford, 250.

7. (5) Jake Garcia, Ford, 250.

8. (22) Kaden Honeycutt, Chevrolet, 250.

9. (12) Rajah Caruth, Chevrolet, 250.

10. (14) Giovanni Ruggiero #, Toyota, 250.

11. (19) Jack Wood, Chevrolet, 250.

12. (24) Grant Infinger, Chevrolet, 250.

13. (1) Daniel Hemric, Chevrolet, 250.

14. (35) Parker Kligerman, Chevrolet, 250.

15. (29) Corey Day (i), Chevrolet, 250.

16. (27) Matt Crafton, Ford, 250.

17. (16) Dawson Sutton #, Chevrolet, 250.

18. (17) Tanner Gray, Toyota, 250.

19. (10) Andres Perez de Lara #, Chevrolet, 250.

20. (15) Matt Mills, Chevrolet, 249.

21. (31) Tyler Tomassi (I), Ford, 246.

22. (21) Luke Fenhaus, Ford, 243.

23. (20) Bayley Currey, Chevrolet, Suspension, 237.

24. (25) Connor Mosack #, Chevrolet, 234.

25. (28) Toni Breidinger #, Toyota, 227.

26. (23) Justin Carroll, Toyota, 222.

27. (7) Stewart Friesen, Toyota, Suspension, 201.

28. (30) Nathan Byrd, Chevrolet, Brake, 155.

29. (26) Patrick Staropoli (I), Toyota, Transmission, 107.

30. (18) Spencer Boyd, Chevrolet, handling, 77.

31. (33) Frankie Muniz #, Ford, DVP, 76.

32. (13) Brandon Jones (i), Toyota, Accident, 53.

33. (8) TY Majeski, Ford, Accident, 52.

34. (34) Norm Benning, Chevrolet, Handing, 35.

35. (32) Stephen Mallozzi, Ford, Electricity, 4.

Average Racing Winning Speed: 72.32 MPH.

Race Time: 1 hour, 50 minutes, 33 seconds. Victory Margin: 0.934 seconds.

Attention Flags: 8 for 66 rounds.

Lead Changes: 6 between 5 drives 6.

Tour Leaders: D. Hemric 1-8; c. Smith 9-121; b. Currey 122-135; c. Heim 136; r. Caruth 137-221; c. Heim 222-236; c. Smith 237-250.

Leading Summary (Driver, Zaman Bullet, Laps Led): Chandler Smith 2 times for 127 rounds; Rajah Caruth 1 time for 85 rounds; Corey Heim twice for 16 rounds; Bayley Currey 1 time for 14 rounds; Daniel Hemric 1 time for 8 rounds.

Stage 1 first ten: 38,99,18,34,19,07,88,7,13,71

Stage 2 first ten: 44,38,45,11,15,18,88,13,99,7

-By Reid Spencer, Nascar Wire Service. Special for field level media

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