HOMESTEAD, Fla. — Regan Smith made a stellar debut with JR Motorsports Saturday night winning the NASCAR Nationwide Ford 300 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
What was scheduled to be only a tune up for next season when Smith will run the full Nationwide series turned into a schooling as Smith dominated the second half of the event to score his first career Nationwide series win. Behind him, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. did what he needed to do finishing sixth and securing his second consecutive Nationwide series title.
The first half of the race belonged to Kyle Busch. Busch took the lead on the first lap and didn’t look back at one time stretching out his lead to nine seconds during a long green flag period. The first caution came on lap 67 of the 200 lap race. MORE>>>
Greg is the author of "The Nuts and Bolts of NASCAR: The Definitive Viewers' Guide to Big-Time Stock Car Auto Racing" and has been published in major publications across the country including the Los Angeles Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He was also a contributor to Chicken Soup for the NASCAR Soul, published in 2010, and the Christmas edition in 2016. He wrote as the NASCAR, Formula 1, Auto Reviews and National Veterans Affairs Examiner for Examiner.com and has appeared on Fox News. He holds a BS degree in communications, a Masters degree in psychology and is currently a PhD candidate majoring in psychology. He is currently the weekend Motorsports Editor for Autoweek.
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