STATESVILLE, N.C. — Garage 66 has signed Chandler Smith to try and make the 67th Daytona 500 at Daytona (Fla.) Int’l Speedway, driving the No. 66 QuickTie Ford Mustang Darkish Horse.
The Speaking Rock, Ga. native has ascended the NASCAR ranks and already picked up a number of race victories in his younger profession. After graduating from the ARCA Menards Collection with 10 wins, Smith has earned 5 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Collection wins and three NASCAR Xfinity Collection wins, together with two final season on his technique to a High-five end within the championship.
This yr, he can be racing full-time for Entrance Row Motorsports within the Craftsman Truck Collection.
“I’m very excited for the chance to race our approach into the Daytona 500 with Storage 66,” Smith stated. “Being in The Nice American Race is such an honor, and I can’t thank QuickTie and Carl Lengthy sufficient for serving to put this all collectively.”
The 22-year-old already has NextGen superspeedway race expertise, ending within the top 15 within the 2023 Coke Zero Sugar 400 at Daytona. He has top-20 finishes in all three of his Cup Collection begins up to now.
Carl Lengthy, who operates Storage 66 with co-owners Rocky and Tom Smith in addition to John Jackson, had a tumultuous few days after Mike Wallace was dominated ineligible to compete within the 500 and needed to scramble to place one other deal collectively.
“The previous couple of days have been a whirlwind of telephone calls and emails after Mike Wallace was not permitted to be the motive force of our Daytona 500 entry,” Lengthy stated. “After a number of days of continuous communication with accessible drivers who might race a Ford, the items got here collectively to position Chandler Smith in our automotive.
“I’m tremendous happy to have Chandler in our seat. He has associates behind the wheel of the opposite vehicles. At Daytona, we are going to want all the buddies we are able to discover to assist race our approach into the present! There are quite a lot of actually high quality vehicles trying this race, which might simply take advantage of thrilling a part of the 2025 Daytona 500 the race to be within the race. With Roush-Yates energy and Chandler behind the wheel, the percentages of Storage 66 and our No. 66 group making the occasion simply obtained stronger.”
The hood of the MBM Cup entry throughout Speedweeks will carry QuickTie, a proprietary, patented hold-down system for top wind and seismic building.
Coble Enterprises, which makes a speciality of personalised property administration for residential and business properties, stays dedicated to the No. 66 group in Daytona as an affiliate sponsor.
