Friday Night
Smith came out on top of a classic 50-lap A-Main on Friday night at River Cities Speedway, holding off a frenetic last-lap bid by Shannon Babb that had the quarter-mile oval’s big crowd holding their collective breath.
The 31-year-old Smith held off a hard charging Babb coming out of turn four. Smith pushed his AMSOIL late model across the stripe a scant 0.121 of a second before Babb – while rubbing doors with
the lapped car driven by Joey Pederson of East Grand Forks, Minn."That race had to be exciting for the fans,” said Smith. “I know it was an exciting race for me. I worked hard for it.”
Saturday Night
Smith quickly proved to sceptics that his win in North Dakota was no fluke. Twenty-four hours after capturing his first-ever WoO victory, Smith made it two straight with a dominant performance in Saturday night’s ‘Energy City 50’ at Estevan Motor Speedway in Saskatchewan. Smith drove forward from the 14th starting spot to take the lead from Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky., on lap 27 and then sailed away from the field, beating Lanigan by commanding 5.792 seconds, one of the largest victory margins of this season’s WoO LMS.
“To win two World of Outlaws features is an accomplishment,” said Smith. “But winning two in-a-row is just awesome. Doing this against the competition on this series, I couldn’t be more proud for our AMSOIL team.”
Smith's next scheduled race is in Zanesville, Ohio on July 24 at the Muskingum County Speedway.
