{"id":387730,"date":"2026-01-04T14:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T14:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/387730\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T14:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T14:19:15","slug":"alex-labbe-running-road-courses-for-ssglr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/387730\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Labbe Running Road Courses for SSGLR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/frontstretch.com\/tag\/alex-labbe\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alex Labbe<\/a> will run all of the 2026 NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series road courses for SS-Green Light Racing, the team announced Jan. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Labbe will drive the No. 0, joining the previously announced <a href=\"https:\/\/frontstretch.com\/tag\/garrett-smithley\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Garrett Smithley<\/a> as drivers of the car.<\/p>\n<p>Labbe, who debuted in the series in 2016, made seven starts in 2025, also for SSGLR. His best finish, 14th, came at Circuit of the Americas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/frontstretch.com\/2025\/12\/10\/garrett-smithley-returning-to-ss-green-light-in-2026\/\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Garrett Smithley Returning to SS-Green Light in 2026\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 150px;\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/2025-martinsville-ii-nxs-garrett-smithley-nkp-150x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Garrett Smithley Returning to SS-Green Light in 2026<\/p>\n<p>In 163 starts in the series, Labbe has one top five and 13 top 10s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/frontstretch.com\/donate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/frontstretch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/frontstretch-donate.avif\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" alt=\"Donate to Frontstretch\" class=\"wp-image-1366571\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"m-a-box-avatar-url\" href=\"https:\/\/frontstretch.com\/author\/krutherford1\/\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/frontstretch-sq-logo-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-150x150 size-150x150\" alt=\"Frontstretch.com\" itemprop=\"image\"   fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Executive Editor\u00a0at\u00a0Frontstretch<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Rutherford is the executive editor of Frontstretch, a position he gained in 2025 after being the managing editor since 2015, and serving on the editing staff since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>At his day job, he&#8217;s a journalist covering music and rock charts at Billboard. He lives in New York City, but his heart is in Ohio &#8212; you know, like that Hawthorne Heights song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Labbe will run all of the 2026 NASCAR O\u2019Reilly Auto Parts Series road courses for SS-Green Light&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":["post-387730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}