Garrett Smithley
| Garrett Smithley | |||||||
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 Smithley at Road America in 2017 | |||||||
| Born | April 27, 1992 Ligonier, Pennsylvania | ||||||
| NASCAR Xfinity Series career | |||||||
| 66 races run over 3 years | |||||||
| Car no., team | No. 0 (JD Motorsports) No. 40 (MBM Motorsports) | ||||||
| 2016 position | 18th | ||||||
| Best finish | 18th (2016) | ||||||
| First race | 2015 Ford EcoBoost 300 (Homestead) | ||||||
| Last race | 2024 Zip Buy Now, Pay Later 250 (Sonoma) | ||||||
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| NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series career | |||||||
| 7 races run over 2 years | |||||||
| 2016 position | 98th | ||||||
| Best finish | 36th (2015) | ||||||
| First race | 2015 Hyundai Construction Equipment 200 (Atlanta) | ||||||
| Last race | 2016 Buckle Up in Your Truck 225 (Kentucky) | ||||||
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| Statistics current as of November 18, 2017. | |||||||
Garrett Smithley (born April 27, 1992) is an American professional stock car racing driver. He currently competes full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, driving the No. 0 Chevrolet Camaro for JD Motorsports and the No. 40 Toyota Camry for MBM Motorsports. Smithley has also competed in the Camping World Truck Series and ARCA Racing Series.[1]
Racing career
Smithley began his racing career in 2007 in Bandolero cars at Atlanta Motor Speedway, and Lanier National Speedway, and won the rookie of the year in 2008. He was chosen to be part of the Richard Petty Driver Search in his first year after high school.[2] Growing up, Dale Jarrett and Carl Edwards were two of Smithley's role models.[2]
ARCA Racing Series
Smithley competed in three events in 2013, driving Derrike Cope's cars. His first start, at Pocono Raceway, was Smithley's first ever stock car race.[3] His one start in 2014 was an 18th at Talladega for Wes Gonder. In 2014, his one start for Rick Ware was hampered by engine problems.[4][5][6]
Camping World Truck Series
Smithley made his Truck series debut at his home track, Atlanta Motor Speedway, driving the No. 63 Chevrolet Silverado for MB Motorsports. He made three more starts in the 2015 season, scoring a high finish of 14th at Michigan.[7] He returned to Atlanta with MB Motorsports for his first start of 2016, finishing 18th.[8]
Xfinity Series
Smithley made his Xfinity Series debut in the final race of 2015, at Homestead driving the No. 70 Chevrolet Camaro for Derrike Cope Racing, started 34th, and finished 28th.[9]
In February 16, 2016, it was announced that Smithley would race for JD Motorsports, driving the No. 0 Chevrolet Camaro, and would also compete for the NASCAR Rookie of the Year honors.[10] He ran every race except the PowerShares QQQ 300. Finishing 18th in series points, he finished in the top 15 in both restrictor plate races, including one at Talladega Superspeedway. Smithley cracked the top 20 five times outside of plate tracks, but troubles at road courses put a slight damper on his season.[11] Another incident at Talladega left Chris Cockrum mad at Smithley; Smithley turned Cockrum off Turn 2, collecting Joey Gase in the process. Cockrum in the infield after the wreck accused Smithley of not knowing how to race at restrictor plate tracks.[12]
Smithley returned full-time to JD Motorsports in 2017. He has run all the races so far except Chicagoland, where Smithley ran in MBM Motorsports' No. 40 car to make room for Vinnie Miller, who was making his series debut.[13] Besides driving, Smithley has also undertaken a publicist-like role within his team, calling companies before races each week seeing if they would like to sponsor him.[3]
Personal life
Smithley's father and both of his grandfathers were military servicemen. Smithley was born in Pennsylvania but later moved to Virginia during the fifth grade and Georgia during his childhood.[2] When he was a child, Smithley played baseball and football but also was an active theater participant at his high school. He credits his theater and drama experience as giving him the confidence necessary to take chances in his racing career.[2] Smithley is friends with fellow drivers Matt DiBenedetto and Ryan Ellis.[3]
Motorsports career results
NASCAR
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
Xfinity Series
| NASCAR Xfinity Series results | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | NXSC | Pts | |||
| 2015 | Derrike Cope Racing | 70 | Chevy | DAY | ATL | LVS | PHO | CAL | TEX | BRI | RCH | TAL | IOW | CLT | DOV | MCH | CHI | DAY | KEN | NHA | IND | IOW | GLN | MOH | BRI | ROA | DAR | RCH | CHI | KEN | DOV | CLT | KAN | TEX | PHO | HOM 28 |
109th | 01 | |||
| 2016 | JD Motorsports | 0 | Chevy | DAY | ATL 24 |
LVS 24 |
PHO 31 |
CAL 23 |
TEX 23 |
BRI 29 |
RCH 20 |
TAL 12 |
DOV 24 |
CLT 15 |
POC 27 |
MCH 17 |
IOW 22 |
DAY 13 |
KEN 24 |
NHA 23 |
IND 23 |
IOW 22 |
GLN 39 |
MOH 24 |
BRI 23 |
ROA 40 |
DAR 22 |
RCH 31 |
CHI 19 |
KEN 17 |
DOV 26 |
CLT 25 |
KAN 18 |
TEX 25 |
PHO 34 |
HOM 29 |
18th | 544 | |||
| 2017 | DAY 8 |
ATL 27 |
LVS 29 |
PHO 24 |
CAL 26 |
TEX 30 |
BRI 34 |
RCH 29 |
TAL 21 |
CLT 24 |
DOV 27 |
POC 35 |
MCH 29 |
IOW 10 |
DAY 28 |
KEN 26 |
NHA 23 |
IND 21 |
IOW 35 |
GLN 24 |
MOH 30 |
BRI 34 |
ROA 27 |
DAR 26 |
RCH 32 |
KEN 25 |
DOV 29 |
CLT 23 |
KAN 28 |
TEX 24 |
PHO 25 |
HOM 24 |
-* | -* | |||||||
| MBM Motorsports | 40 | Toyota | CHI 37 |
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Camping World Truck Series
| NASCAR Camping World Truck Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | NCWTC | Pts | ||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | MB Motorsports | 63 | Chevy | DAY | ATL 18 |
MAR | KAN | CLT | DOV | TEX | GTW | IOW | KEN | ELD | POC 16 |
MCH 14 |
BRI | MSP | CHI | NHA | LVS | TAL | MAR | TEX | PHO | HOM 28 |
36th | 100 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | DAY | ATL 18 |
MAR | KAN | DOV | 98th | 01 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| SS-Green Light Racing | 07 | Chevy | CLT 29 |
TEX | IOW | GTW | KEN 21 |
ELD | POC | BRI | MCH | MSP | CHI | NHA | LVS | TAL | MAR | TEX | PHO | HOM | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
ARCA Racing Series
(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time. Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)
| ARCA Racing Series results | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | Team | No. | Make | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | ARSC | Pts | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Derrike Cope Racing | 74 | Chevy | DAY | MOB | SLM | TAL | TOL | ELK | POC 17 |
MCH | ROA | WIN | CHI | NJE | POC 14 |
BLN | ISF | MAD | DSF | IOW | SLM | KEN 26 |
KAN | 64th | 405 | ||||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Wes Gonder | 11 | Ford | DAY | MOB | SLM | TAL 18 |
TOL | NJE | POC | MCH | ELK | WIN | CHI | IRP | POC | BLN | ISF | MAD | DSF | SLM | KEN | KAN | 111th | 140 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Rick Ware Racing | 10 | Chevy | DAY 34 |
MOB | NSH | SLM | TAL | TOL | NJE | POC | MCH | CHI | WIN | IOW | IRP | POC | BLN | ISF | DSF | SLM | KEN | KAN | 136th | 60 | |||||||||||||||||||
* Season still in progress
1 Ineligible for series points
References
- ^ "Garrett Smithley Career Statistics". Racing-Reference.info. Racing-Reference.info. Retrieved April 21, 2016.
- ^ a b c d Crandall, Kelly (2016-09-01). "Xfinity Series Spotlight: Garrett Smithley, actor, singer and racer". NASCAR Talk. Retrieved 2017-11-04.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ a b c Gluck, Jeff (2017-03-08). "12 Questions with Garrett Smithley". JeffGluck.com. Retrieved 2017-11-04.
{{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|dead-url=(help) - ^ "Garrett Smithley 2013 ARCA Racing Series Results". Racing-Reference.info. Racing-Reference.info. Retrieved April 21, 2016.
- ^ "Garrett Smithley 2014 ARCA Racing Series Results". Racing-Reference.info. Racing-Reference.info. Retrieved April 21, 2016.
- ^ "Garrett Smithley 2015 ARCA Racing Series Results". Racing-Reference.info. Racing-Reference.info. Retrieved April 21, 2016.
- ^ "Garrett Smithley 2015 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference.info. Racing-Reference.info. Retrieved April 21, 2016.
- ^ "Garrett Smithley 2016 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Results". Racing-Reference.info. Racing-Reference.info. Retrieved April 21, 2016.
- ^ "Garrett Smithley 2015 NASCAR Xfinity Series Results". Racing-Reference.info. Racing-Reference.info. Retrieved April 21, 2016.
- ^ McCubbin, Ashley. "Garrett Smithley Gets Opportunity with JD Motorsports". Popular Speed. Popular Speed. Retrieved April 21, 2016.
- ^ "Garrett Smithley 2016 NASCAR Xfinity Series Results - Racing-Reference.info". racing-reference.info. Retrieved 2016-11-22.
- ^ "Watch as violent wreck unfolds early in 'Dega XFINITY race". FOX Sports. 2016-04-30. Retrieved 2017-11-04.
- ^ "Entry list for TheHouse.com 300 - Motorsports One". www.motorsportsone.com. Retrieved 2017-09-18.
External links
- Official website
- Garrett Smithley driver statistics at Racing-Reference