Zane Smith won the final race—and championship—of the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series in 2022, and on Friday he won the first race of the new NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series by being the leader when the NextEra Energy 250 was cut short due to rain. It was his second straight win at Daytona International Speedway, with the first coming in his maiden start for Front Row Motorsports.

The race was plagued by three rain delays, including two within the first ten laps. The third struck after seventy-nine laps, at which point Smith was leading with Tanner Gray in tow. Although Smith had started fifteenth, his prowess at Daytona as the defending winner and making the Daytona 500 via his Duel the previous night coupled with a plethora of wrecks lifted him to the top spot.

“Fortunately they don’t ask how (I won), they ask how many,” said Smith. “Obviously, I wanted to win it how I did last year, and it was a little bit more exciting, but any time you have the opportunity to win and stand in Victory Lane at Daytona, I don’t think anyone is going to turn that down.”

Over half the race was run under caution thanks to the weather and three massive wrecks. Among the victims of the first crash on lap 30 were Dean Thompson and Hailie Deegan in their first races for their respective teams, while GMS Racing‘s Rookie of the Year contenders Rajah Caruth and Daniel Dye were taken out in the third on lap 59.

Christian Eckes, who finished third, quipped that Smith’s win was a “Mickey Mouse” victory due to the circumstances under which it occurred, to which Smith said it was “nothing new to me. I’m always carrying him in beer pong and everything in between, so call me Mickey Mouse as much as he wants.”

Travis Pastrana placed thirteenth in his first Truck start since 2020 and first on a superspeedway as he prepares for his Cup Series début at the Daytona 500. Two spots behind him, American Jason White defeated Canada’s Jason White (finished twenty-first) in an unusual quirk of a race featuring two drivers with the same name.

Race results

Finish	Start	Number	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Status
1	15	38	Zane Smith	Front Row Motorsports	Ford	79	Running
2	19	15	Tanner Gray	TRICON Garage	Toyota	79	Running
3	4	19	Christian Eckes	McAnally-Hilgemann Racing	Chevrolet	79	Running
4	21	9	Colby Howard	CR7 Motorsports	Chevrolet	79	Running
5	16	23	Grant Enfinger	GMS Racing	Chevrolet	79	Running
6	2	98	Ty Majeski	ThorSport Racing	Ford	79	Running
7	27	16	Tyler Ankrum	Hattori Racing Enterprises	Toyota	79	Running
8	13	11	Corey Heim	TRICON Garage	Toyota	79	Running
9	6	88	Matt Crafton	ThorSport Racing	Ford	79	Running
10	14	35	Chase Elliott*	McAnally-Hilgemann Racing	Chevrolet	79	Running
11	26	99	Ben Rhodes	ThorSport Racing	Ford	79	Running
12	9	42	Carson Hocevar	Niece Motorsports	Chevrolet	79	Running
13	25	41	Travis Pastrana*	Niece Motorsports	Chevrolet	79	Running
14	20	17	Sammy Smith*	TRICON Garage	Toyota	79	Running
15	7	1	Jason A. White	TRICON Garage	Toyota	79	Running
16	32	56	Timmy Hill	Hill Motorsports	Toyota	79	Running
17	10	4	Chase Purdy	Kyle Busch Motorsports	Chevrolet	79	Running
18	11	20	Derek Kraus	Young’s Motorsports	Chevrolet	79	Running
19	34	22	Josh Reaume	AM Racing	Ford	79	Running
20	8	25	Matt DiBenedetto	Rackley WAR	Chevrolet	79	Running
21	36	34	Jason M. White	Reaume Brothers Racing	Toyota	79	Running
22	30	02	Kris Wright	Young’s Motorsports	Chevrolet	79	Running
23	5	7	Corey LaJoie*	Spire Motorsports	Chevrolet	79	Running
24	35	33	Mason Massey	Reaume Brothers Racing	Ford	79	Running
25	33	30	Chris Hacker	On Point Motorsports	Toyota	79	Running
26	1	2	Nick Sanchez	Rev Racing	Chevrolet	79	Running
27	3	51	Jack Wood	Kyle Busch Motorsports	Chevrolet	79	Running
28	23	52	Stewart Friesen	Halmar Friesen Racing	Toyota	74	Running
29	17	24	Rajah Caruth	GMS Racing	Chevrolet	57	Accident
30	29	43	Daniel Dye	GMS Racing	Chevrolet	57	Accident
31	22	32	Bret Holmes	Bret Holmes Racing	Chevrolet	49	Brakes
32	24	75	Parker Kligerman*	Henderson Motorsports	Chevrolet	45	DVP
33	28	97	Codie Rohrbaugh	CR7 Motorsports	Chevrolet	39	Accident
34	31	84	Clay Greenfield	Cook Racing Enterprises	Toyota	28	Accident
35	12	13	Hailie Deegan	ThorSport Racing	Ford	28	Accident
36	18	5	Dean Thompson	TRICON Garage	Toyota	28	Accident
DNQ		45	Lawless Alan	Niece Motorsports	Chevrolet
DNQ		28	Bryan Dauzat	FDNY Racing	Chevrolet
DNQ		96	Todd Peck	Peck Motorsports	Toyota
DNQ		12	Spencer Boyd	Young’s Motorsports	Chevrolet
DNQ		04	Kaden Honeycutt	Roper Racing	Ford
DNQ		46	Norm Benning	G2G Racing	Toyota

Italics – Competing for Rookie of the Year
* – Ineligible for Truck points