Zane Smith’s Attempt to Join an Exclusive Club

Only one driver in the 28-year history of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series has won backto-back championships. Will 2022 champ Zane

Competing for Front Row Motorsports, Smith captured last year’s title in convincing fashion by winning four races, including the season-ending Championship 4 race at Phoenix where he started from the pole and led 77 of 154 laps. It’s worth noting that Smith’s stellar 2022 campaign was hardly a fluke, considering the 23-year-old Huntington Beach, California, native had finished runnerup in the standings in each of the two previous seasons as part of the Championship 4.

Perhaps this season he’ll join three-time champion Matt Crafton as the only Truck Series driver to ascend the series’ highest mountain in consecutive