Chandler Michael Smith Sr. (born June 26, 2002) is an American professional stock car racing driver.
In 2013, Smith won the bandoleros national championship after two wins at Atlanta, one at Charlotte and one at Bethel Motor Speedway.
[1] In 2018, Smith made his ARCA Menards Series debut at the Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway and won the pole after qualifying was rained out.
In his fourth ARCA start, Smith dominated at Madison International Speedway and won his first race after leading the most laps.
[3] Ten of Smith's races that year were part of the brand new Sioux Chief Showdown, which put him in contention to win that separate championship within the ARCA Series.
On February 21, 2019, Kyle Busch Motorsports announced that Smith would run a four-race NASCAR Gander Outdoors Truck Series schedule in the team's Nos.
51, which were at Richmond, Dover, Michigan, Gateway, Bristol, Las Vegas, Talladega, and the season finale at Phoenix.
[7] He almost won the series' inaugural race at Knoxville, but lost the lead to Austin Hill in the closing laps and green-white-checkered attempts.
[8] At Bristol, in a must-win situation to make the Round of 8 in the playoffs, Smith won, beating Grant Enfinger and teammate John Hunter Nemechek as Nemechek overshot turn 1 and race leader Sheldon Creed was put into the wall by Smith and overshot turn 1 and spun finishing 19th.
[10] On December 20, 2024, Smith announced his return to the Truck Series full-time, driving for Front Row Motorsports in 2025.
[13] In October of that year, it was revealed that Smith, who originally signed a multi-year contract, would part ways with the team at the end of the season.
[23] On January 22, 2025, MBM Motorsports announced that Smith will attempt to make the 2025 Daytona 500 in their Garage 66 Ford entry.
* Season still in progress 1 Ineligible for series points (key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time.