MOORESVILLE, N.C. — NASCAR Xfinity Series rookie Sammy Smith will begin the playoffs Friday night at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway. Though, Smith is only 19 years old, he is somewhat of a veteran at the .533-mile concrete race track. ARCA cars are fairly easy to get around there and then the Xfinity car last year was tough,” Smith continued. “I think they are putting resin down, hopefully, they get it kind of wore in during the Truck and ARCA race that we can move up in the Xfinity race.”. “I never really ran any races in ARCA on mile-and-a-halves or intermediates, so I think that was the biggest thing for me was going from short tracks to intermediates in a Xfinity car,” he explained.

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