Myatt Snider Q&A

BY JARED TURNER

As the son of longtime NASCAR on NBC pit reporter Marty Snider, Myatt Snider has been around NASCAR for most of his life. But unlike his father, an award-winning broadcaster, 27-year-old Myatt has carved out a promising career on the driving side.

Entering his third season as a full-time NASCAR Xfinity Series competitor, the younger Snider joins Jordan Anderson Racing this season after earning Xfinity Series career win No. 1 at HomesteadMiami Speedway last season with Richard Childress Racing.

Get to know him better in this exclusive Q&A.

It was awesome. TaxSlayer always does a really good job with the bowl every year, and I’ve had the luxury of being able to go two times now. It’s been cool, to say the least, to go to that game. The first time I went we got to drive the race car onto the field and then do the coin toss. I just really enjoy going.

Things have been really good, just getting to know Jordan, getting to know the team, kind of setting everything up. Things have been really good with Jordan, and I really have had a lot of satisfaction with how we’ve been able to work together and his goal and his vision and what he wants to do with the team and how our ideals mesh. He’s a really good leader of the team, and I’m very happy to be integrating myself into that, and, hopefully, I can become a “Jordan Anderson Racing guy.” I’m looking forward to what successes we can build this year, and I’m just really excited for everything.

I actually started in 2018, and I think I took my first discovery flight in November 2017. I’ve been trying to get my private pilot’s license for a couple of years now, and I’m basically there as far as flying skills go. I’ve flown most of the hours I need to fly and done most all of the stuff I need to do flying-wise. I think the only things I have left are my FAA written test and maybe a couple of cross-country flights, and that’s about it. So once I do those, I’ll have my pilot’s license and I can fly anywhere. It’s been a dream of mine for a long time to fly to one of my own races, and I’m really looking forward to being able to get that done this year.

That’s a tough one. I’d have to say (reigning NASCAR Camping World Truck Series champion) Ben Rhodes just because I became really good friends with him when I was racing at ThorSport Racing a couple of years ago, and we would always joke around with each other, and he just seemed like an all-around good dude. I stay in touch with him, and I have a couple of other friends, but that’s probably my best driver friend, I would say.

Oh, man. Probably Homestead this past year just because I kind of knew I had a good chance to run well that whole day, and we kind of did for the most part. There were times when we ran well and times when we didn’t, but we were contenders at the end when it mattered, and for me, that was one of my better accomplishments in racing so far because previously, in trucks, I had really struggled at Homestead. Homestead has a special place in my heart. There’s a lot of other special days I can think of – like winning my first ARCA start, winning the Myrtle Beach 400 (late model race). There’s been a lot of good days in racing.

I’ve always been a simple guy. I obviously want all the success I can get in racing, but if I ended up having a career as a NASCAR driver in competitive rides and I’m a competitive driver week in and week out – whether that be in the Truck Series, Xfinity Series or Cup Series – that’s a pretty fulfilling existence for me. Just a fulltime competitive ride is enough for me. That could be anywhere. That’s my goal.

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