Never in any of the top three NASCAR national series has an entire playoff field been comprised solely of winners, which makes a NASCAR Xfinity Series driver most have overlooked that much more dangerous over the next two months: Myatt Snider.
Admittedly, Snider and the No. 31 Jordan Anderson Racing team haven’t lit the Xfinity Series world on fire. There is no denying that.
Saturday’s second-place finish in the inaugural Xfinity race at Portland International Raceway was Snider’s first top five of 2022. He has only scored three other top 10s thus far, coming at Circuits of the Americas (sixth), Talladega Superspeedway (ninth) and Charlotte Motor Speedway (10th).
Notice a subtle pattern? Snider has scored a pair of top-six finishes at this season’s road courses. People familiar with Snider’s career know that the 27-year-old Charlotte native spent a season in Europe racing in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series in the Elite 2 division. Fresh off his rookie campaign in the Camping World Truck Series in 2018, where he won Rookie of the Year, Snider was out of a job when ThorSport Racing announced Johnny Sauter was returning to the team for the 2019 season.
Snider competed in the entire 2019 Whelen Euro Elite 2 in the No. 48 Ford for Racing Engineering, finishing sixth in the final standings. The 13-race calendar was comprised of six road course doubleheader weekends and a single oval event. During the six road course doubleheader weekends, he improved in race number two in four of them. However, in the two he didn’t improve, the fall-off wasn’t that poor. At the end of the season, his average finish in the first race was 12.2, and he averaged a 6.5 in race number two.
Returning stateside for 2020, Snider put together an entire season of Xfinity competition, splitting his time between Richard Childress Racing and RSS Racing. The COVID-19 pandemic jumbled the schedule and reduced the number of…
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