American Racing News Vol 1, Issue 2 Issue 8 | Page 13

excited to be partnering with
Big Brothers Big Sisters in 2017,"
said Smith.
While we first heard about the
partnership at Kansas, the
program has been near and
dear to Smith for some time.
"I've been a part of Big Brothers
Big Sisters for three years now.
It's a corporate program
through Chrysler. Once every
Tuesday, I go to a local school
and mentor a kid. Once you've
been in the program for at least
a year, they allow you to expand
your involvement with the
kids...maybe take them to a
ballgame or something like
that."
For more than 100 years, Big
Brothers Big Sisters has
operated under the belief that
inherent in every child is the
ability to succeed and thrive in
life. As the nation’s largest
donor and volunteer supported
mentoring network, Big
Brothers Big Sisters makes

meaningful, monitored matches
between adult volunteers
(“Bigs”) and children (“Littles”),
ages 6 through 18, in
communities across the
country.
In the meantime, Smith and his
Hylton Motorsports team are in
the hunt for marketing partners
to run the full ARCA season in
2017. Over an ARCA career that
reaches back to 1988, the
Shelby Township, Michigan
veteran is coming off his best
season ever, finishing sixth in
championship driver points in
2016, despite still recovering
from injuries sustained at
Talladega Superspeedway the
year before. His previous
career-best points finish was
11th in 2014. The 2017 seasonopening Lucas Oil 200 at
Daytona will mark Smith's 280th
career ARCA start.