Smith Racing

01/10/2023

Such a cool partnership opportunity for race teams like ours. A big thank you goes out to Five Star Racewear LLC for running a program like this.

Everyone go take a look at their online shop. Pick up some Smith Racing gear and browse all the other local teams and drivers featured there.

New Partner Announcement - Partner #97!

You can get your exclusive Smith Racing merch at fivestarracewear.com. As always, the team gets 20% cut as sponsorship for all their merch sold and a 10% sponsorship cut of any FSR merch sold on the same order. Good luck to Smith Racing and the rest of the FSR Partners on the track!

Smith Racing Merch > fivestarracewear.com/collections/smith-racing

Want to learn more about the Partner Program?
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🏁 #1972

05/03/2021

Smith Racing wins the season opener at Central Illinois Dragway!

04/17/2021

Eliminations Round 1. Turning that win light on.

04/17/2021

Time Trials

04/17/2021

Three generations of Smith boys are at World Wide Technology Raceway, staring down Mother Nature, waiting for this rain to leave so we can start some racing!!

10/13/2019

After 5 rounds of racing we made it down to the final 4 before getting a taste of our own medicine. Right after running dead on our dial in the fourth round (6.860 on a 6.86) our semifinal opponent dialed in 6.81 and put a 6.810 pass down the track. Still, the Old Man kept it interesting only losing the semifinal pass by a razor thin margin of 0.0092. A great day of racing all around. Mike Smith was a killer on the tree with one perfect light, two .007's and an all day average of .018. Great job Pops!

10/12/2019

Smith Racing is at World Wide Technology Raceway in St. Louis for the NHRA.tv Challenge. The cool fall weather has the old man spry this morning. He kicked off time trials with a perfect .000 reaction time. Bring on the challengers.

07/20/2019

Mike Smith and BB are in St. Louis for the Midnight Madness bracket program. Wish them some luck. Hoping for a long night under the nights.

07/06/2019

We are in St. Louis at World Wide Technology Raceway for today's bracket program. Time trials start at noon.

06/29/2019

We are at Central Illinois Dragway. Come out and join us!

09/24/2018

This is one of our favorite events each year and 2018 did not disappoint. Driver Mike Smith burst through the gates to start the day with a .007 and a .002 reaction time on his first two passes. Casual observers might mistake such quickness for eagerness to be at the track for his favorite race. However his long time crew chief had a different explanation. "He changed the shocks. We've been to how many semi finals this year? How many finals? Hell, we've won races this season. Why would you change the suspension set up now? He was so good on the tree because he knew he would have to be if those shocks turned out like the hood change of 2011." Fortunately they did not. 5 round wins brought Smith Racing all the way to the quarter finals. Our 60ft, 330ft, and 594ft times were more consistent than they've ever been with this motor and Mike averaged an .012 r/t on the day. I'd say that is a pretty good weekend.

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09/22/2018

Going to be a beautiful day for racing. Come on out and join us.

07/28/2018

Get over to Havana today. Looks to be a great show. Smith Racing will be competing in the Modified class.

06/24/2018

The Celebrations Continue After Top Eliminator Win!

After three birthdays in the Smith Racing family this week, including driver Mike Smith's bday on Friday, Smith Racing hit CID on Saturday looking to keep the party going. Apparently flush with some birthday card cash, Mike decided to enter both Modified, his normal class, as well as Top Eliminator.

Due to some inconsistencies in Elapsed Time, later diagnosed as a transmission temp issue (over the phone from a different state) we bowed out of Modified round 2.

Generally speaking Top has the fastest cars on the property, the most dragsters, and competitors are allowed to use a delay box (an electronic Reaction Time aid) making it very difficult for no box competitors to go rounds. None of that mattered to Mike Smith. He absolutely chopped down the tree this weekend with three .00 reaction times and 7 of 11 passes having lights under .030. He might be in his silver years but his racing is still taking the gold.

06/04/2018

This weekend Smith Racing competed in Central Illinois Dragway's Nostalgia Event. Running in the No Box class Mike Smith and BB went through 7 rounds of racing all the way to the No Box final. Unfortunately a red light light in the final ended our day. But all things considered, three events this season with three final round appearances is one heck of a way to kick off this summer.

05/27/2018

Smith Racing did some spectating yesterday at Byron Dragway. All three generations of Smith fellas were represented. (1st and 3rd pictured) What a great show put on by the competitors! An unbelievable 11 perfect reaction times after only 2 rounds of eliminations. We can't wait to bring "BB" up here to run this beautiful track.

05/21/2018

05/21/2018

5/19 Quick 16 and Regular show