Practice #1 : Circuit of The Americas

• Circuit of The Americas
• 2nd Annual XPEL 225
• Pole Winner: Sheldon Creed
• Age: 24
• Team : No. 20 - Wiley X Chevrolet
• Owner: Young's Motorsports
• Crew Chief: Andrew Abbott
• Sheldon Creed won the Pole Award for the 2nd Annual XPEL 225 with a lap of 134.924 seconds, 90.985 mph.
• This is his first pole in 76 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series races.
• This is his first pole and first top-10 start in 2022.
• This is his first pole in two races at Circuit of The Americas.
• Zane Smith (second) posted his second top-10 start of 2022 and his first in two races at Circuit of The Americas.
• Alex Bowman (third) posted his first top-10 start at Circuit of The Americas.
• Lawless Alan (24th) was the fastest qualifying rookie.

• Saturday, March 26th, 2022
• NASCAR Wire Service - Holly Cain

Zane Smith gets second Truck Series win of 2022 at Circuit of The Americas

Ultimately, Zane Smith was out front when it paid off Saturday afternoon at the Circuit of The Americas road course. He led only 11 of the 46 laps - winning Stage 1, Stage 2 and then took the race lead with two laps remaining in the second overtime period to earn the victory in the XPEL 225 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race.

It marked Smith's second win of the 2022 season - fifth of his career - and the second consecutive win at the 3.41-mile, 20-turn COTA circuit for his Front Row Motorsports team, who celebrated in Victory Lane last year with driver Todd Gilliland.

Veteran Kyle Busch - who led a race best 31 laps - led the vast majority of the race and held the point on the start of that final overtime. But his closest challengers Stewart Friesen and Alex Bowman went in hard to the Turn 11 hairpin turn making it a three-wide door-to-door-to-door trying to wrestle the lead from Busch, the series all-time winningest driver.

As that was happening, the 22-year-old Californian Smith simply drove under of the slowed trio, taking the lead and then holding off John Hunter Nemechek for the win by 3.529-seconds.

"Once I got back up there, I was doing my best to read how those guys were racing," said Smith, who drives the No. 38 Front Row Motorsports Ford.

"It happened like that in such dramatic fashion and had to come from the back, it's just a huge statement for this team really. Every single race this year I've been in contention to win.

"This whole team, just awesome to see how it all worked out," he added.

"Scored some awesome points today," Smith said.

Busch recovered to finish third, followed by 2021 series champion Ben Rhodes and Busch's teammate Chandler Smith. Christian Eckes, Tyler Ankrum, Carson Hocevar, Friesen, and Grant Enfinger rounded out the top-10.

Had his bold move to the front paid off, it would have been Friesen's first win in the series since 2019 and the first career victory for Hocevar, who was also running among the top three late in the race but got shuffled back in the wild restart action. Parker Kligerman, who had run among the top five all afternoon, also ran out of gas and ultimately finished 19th.

"Felt like we deserved that one, but it doesn't matter if you deserve it or not, you've got to be the first one to the checkered flag, and we were not," Busch said.

The race featured 10 lead changes among eight drivers and had eight caution periods.

"In races like this, you know it's never over till it's over and that [race] is the very definition of that," Smith said.

The top-five effort keeps championship leaders Smith and Rhodes close. Smith now holds a 15-point edge over Rhodes.

• Drivers Entered: 39 (3 drivers will not make the race)
• Laps Scheduled: 41
• Laps Actual: 46 - NASCAR OVERTIME!
• Margin of Victory: 03.529 Seconds
• Time of Race: 2 Hours 25 Minutes 0 Seconds
• Average Speed: 64.908
• Cautions: 8 for 12 laps
• Lead Changes: 10
• Green Flag Passes: 1,664 (48.9 passes per green flag lap)

• Circuit of The Americas
• 2nd Annual XPEL 225
• Race Winner: Zane Smith
• Age: 22
• Team : No. 38 - Speedco Ford
• Owner: Front Row Motorsports
• Crew Chief: Chris Lawson
• Zane Smith won the 2nd Annual XPEL 225, his fifth victory in 50 Camping World Truck Series races.
• This is his second victory and third top-10 finish in 2022.
• This is his first victory and second top-10 finish in two races at Circuit of The Americas.
• John Hunter Nemechek (second) posted his first top-10 finish in two races at Circuit of The Americas. It is his first top-10 finish in 2022.
• Kyle Busch (third) posted his first top-10 finish in his series debut at Circuit of The Americas.
• Lawless Alan (11th) was the highest finishing rookie.
• Chandler Smith leads the point standings by 15 points over Ben Rhodes.