Regan Smith - Haas Automation Racing Team Report

Haas Automation Racing Team Report
Round 3 of 36 – Kobalt 400 – Las Vegas

Car No.: 41 – Haas Automation Chevrolet

 Chassis No. 838:
Regan Smith will pilot Chassis No. 838 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Sunday’s Kobalt 400. It was previously a No. 10 chassis for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) teammate Danica Patrick. It made its debut in April 2014 at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, where Patrick started 24th and finished 27th. She was running in the top-15 with the car in June at Pocono (Pa.) Raceway but cut a tire, crashed and finished 37th. Chassis 838 then raced in August at Atlanta Motor Speedway, where Patrick started 27th but finished a career-best sixth. It was last used in October at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, where Patrick qualified 29th and over the final 30 circuits moved from 23rd to record an impressive 16th-place finish. Since then, Chassis No. 838 has undergone updates and will see its first laps of the season this weekend at Las Vegas.

Las Vegas Motor Speedway Notes of Interest:

• The Kobalt 400 will mark Regan Smith’s 175th career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series start and his sixth at Las Vegas Motor
  Speedway.
• Smith has Sprint Cup career totals of one win, three top-five finishes and 11 top-10s.
• The lone career win for the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Rookie of the Year was the 2011 Southern 500 at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway.
• Smith’s best finish at the 1.5-mile Las Vegas oval is 15th, which came in his most-recent start in March 2012. Additionally, he has an average starting position of 22.8, an average finish of 25.6, and has completed 85.7 percent of the laps he has contested (1,159 of 1,353).
• In five career NASCAR Xfinity Series starts at Las Vegas, Smith has recorded two top-10 finishes with a best finish of seventh in March 2013.
• Smith’s lone career start in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series at Las Vegas came in September 2007, which resulted in a 12th-place finish.
• Double Duty – In addition to his driving duties in Sunday’s Sprint Cup race, Smith will drive the No. 7 Chevrolet for JR Motorsports in Saturday’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race.
• Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) at Las Vegas – In 15 overall starts at Las Vegas, SHR-prepared Chevrolets have earned one win (Tony Stewart in 2012), four top-five finishes and five top-10s, have been atop the leaderboard for 320 laps, and have completed 98 percent of the laps contested (3,960 of 4,041).

Regan Smith’s Las Vegas Motor Speedway Performance Profile:

× Race length extended due to green-white-checkered finish.