{"id":141932,"date":"2025-09-08T15:34:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/141932\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T15:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T15:34:09","slug":"sammy-smith-to-remain-with-jr-motorsports-in-nascar-xfinity-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/141932\/","title":{"rendered":"Sammy Smith to remain with JR Motorsports in NASCAR Xfinity Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

MOORESVILLE, N.C. \u2014 Sammy Smith<\/a> will remain with JR Motorsports and continue driving for them in the NASCAR Xfinity Series.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Photo by Dominic Aragon\/TRE<\/p>\n

JRM announced an extension of Smith\u2019s contract for 2026. Smith will look to make his third Xfinity Series playoff appearance after making the playoffs in his first two seasons with the organization.<\/p>\n

Smith first came to JRM from Joe Gibbs Racing, where he made his series debut in 2022 and won his first career race in 2023 at Phoenix Raceway<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With JRM, Smith has won at Talladega in 2024<\/a> and at Rockingham this year. Smith earned the Rockingham win after Jesse Love was disqualified for his car failing post-race inspection<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"Photo: Getty Images, courtesy of NASCAR Media<\/p>\n

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Jonathan Fjeld is the co-owner of the The Racing Experts, LLC. He has been with TRE since 2010.<\/p>\n

A Twin Valley, MN, native, Fjeld became a motorsports fan at just three years old (first race was the 2002 Pennsylvania 500). He worked as a contributor and writer for TRE from 2010-18. Since then, he has stepped up and covered 24 NASCAR race weekends and taken on a larger role with TRE. He became the co-owner and managing editor in 2023 and has guided the site to massive growth in that time.<\/p>\n

Fjeld has covered a wide array of stories and moments over the years, including Kevin Harvick’s final Cup Series season, the first NASCAR national series disqualification in over 50 years, Shane van Gisbergen’s stunning win in Chicago and the first Cup Series race at Road America in 66 years \u2013 as well as up-and-coming drivers’ stories and stories from inside the sport, like the tech it takes for Hendrick Motorsports to remain a top-tier team.<\/p>\n

Currently, he resides in Albuquerque, N.M., where he works for KOB 4, an NBC station. He works as a digital producer and does on-air reports. He loves spending time with friends and family, playing and listening to music, exploring new places, being outdoors, reading books and writing among other activities. You can email him at fjeldjonathan@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MOORESVILLE, N.C. \u2014 Sammy Smith will remain with JR Motorsports and continue driving for them in the NASCAR…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[425,99],"class_list":["post-141932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}