Zane Smith records ‘cool’ first NASCAR Cup Series Top-10
In just his sixth race, Zane Smith earned his first NASCAR Cup Series Top-10 finish Monday in the Coca-Cola 600.
“We run on half the budget, if that, than a lot of these guys, so to finish Top-10 in our sixth start at the Coke 600 is really cool,” Smith said of his 10th-place finish.
Smith is the 1,068th different driver to score a Top-10 finish in NASCAR’s premier series.
Prior to Monday, Smith’s highest finish was 13th in this year’s Daytona 500.
Smith is racing a partial schedule for Front Row Motorsports in the Cup Series while racing full-time for the team in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series.
“The Cup Series is a different level and obviously I’m trying to prove I belong here and it’s just an outstanding run,” Smith said.
Smith has three more races scheduled in the Cup Series this year — Sonoma in June, Las Vegas in September, and the Charlotte Road Course in October.
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Dominic Aragon is currently the editor-in-chief for The Racing Experts.
From Grants, New Mexico, USA, Aragon started watching NASCAR in 2004 and has been covering the sport since 2009. Aragon is a 2012 graduate of Grants High School and a May 2016 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism. Aragon has worked in local and national media, as a musician, and an educator. He is co-author of the 2024 book "All of It: Daytona 500 Champion Tells the Rest of the Story" with racer Geoff Bodine.
Aragon, his wife Feliz, and son Christopher currently reside in Grants, New Mexico, USA.
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