Chandler Smith won the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series’ Worldwide Express 250 at Richmond Raceway in dominant fashion Saturday night, Aug. 13.
The No. 18 Kyle Busch Motorsports driver took the lead off of pit road after stage one and never looked back to claim his third win of the year and fourth of his Truck career.
Smith’s teammate John Hunter Nemechek was second, while polesitter Ty Majeski placed third. Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park winner Grant Enfinger was fourth, while KBM’s Corey Heim rounded out the top five.
As far as the racing goes, things were relatively quiet for the most part, save for one crash in stage three.
Stages one and two went clean, as no cautions for incidents occurred in the first half of the race.
Ty Majeski won stage one but lost a couple of spots on pit road during the caution. His jackman fell down in the box as he went over the wall, and Majeski couldn’t avoid running into him, stopping short of his markers.
Man of Steele.
Incredible by jackman Paul Steele to still finish @TyMajeski‘s stop after this. pic.twitter.com/WETHtNQkjQ
— Xfinity Racing (@XfinityRacing) August 14, 2022
But the jackman got up quickly and finished the stop for the No. 66 ThorSport Racing team.
Chandler Smith and John Hunter Nemechek got out ahead of Majeski on pit lane, with Smith darting out front on the restart. Smith and Nemechek held their spots through stage two, while Grant Enfinger got by Majeski to place third in the stage.
Stage three was pretty much the same, with Smith and Nemechek out front up until about 35 to go. As Smith went by the lapped truck of Nick Leitz, Hocevar made contact with Leitz’ No. 33, which spun around and backed hard into the outside wall.
After the ensuing restart, Smith was able to soar back out in front and maintain the lead through the end of the race.
The final stop in the Round of 10 for the Truck Series is Kansas Speedway on Friday, Sept. 9. Television coverage kicks off at 7:30 p.m. ET on FOX Sports 1.
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