Zane Smith dominates Heart of America 200

Zane Smith is the one driver with a number of wins within the 2022 NASCAR Tenting World Truck Sequence. A dominating efficiency in Friday’s Coronary heart of America 200 at Kansas Speedway means he now has a two-win benefit over everybody else with a victory. He led 108 of 134 laps within the race, with Corey Heim having the second most with simply eighteen.

Heim gained the opening stage after taking the lead from Smith, who in flip claimed the spot from pole winner John Hunter Nemechek, on lap 22. Nevertheless, Heim’s hopes of profitable got here to an finish when his engine began to randomly shut off, inflicting him to hit the wall and forcing a late pit cease.

Smith gained Stage #2. Whereas the primary two segments ran caution-free, Niece Motorsports vans have been accountable for cautions in Stage #3 when Kris Wright spun on lap 92 whereas Dean Thompson did so on lap 123.

The Wright warning allowed Heim to spend a while in entrance earlier than Smith re-assumed the lead for the following restart. Ty Majeski, who together with ThorSport Racing team-mate Ben Rhodes have been the one different drivers to steer laps, was no match for Smith.

The victory is Smith’s sixth within the Truck Sequence, first at Kansas, and first on a 1.5-mile oval. This leaves grime tracks—of which there are two on the Truck calendar with Bristol in March and Knoxville in June—because the lone circuit sort he has but to win on. Smith’s different victories have come on a two-mile oval (Michigan 2020), one-mile oval (Dover 2020), brief observe (Martinsville 2021), superspeedway (Daytona 2022), and highway course (COTA 2022)

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