Twenty-year-old Regan Smith will join with Jack McNelly’s Mac Hill Motorsports team for the NASCAR Busch Series final 2003 event at Homestead-Miami Speedway. McNelly’s team is in only its second year of operation, running four 2002 Busch Series races in preparation for a projected twelve race run for 2003. The Mac Hill team is named after the Mac Hill dairy farm McNelly grew up on in Waynesburg, PA, reminding many NASCAR veterans of Jack Beebe’s Race Hill Farm team that came out of New England in the 1980’s. That team had drivers Harry Gant and Ron Bouchard, with Bouchard claiming the team a Winston Cup victory at Talladega in 1981. McNelly, a long time race fan, had a successful bus company in western Pennsylvania that sponsored local drivers at the asphalt and dirt tracks in the area before moving to North Carolina to start the Busch Series team. The recently turned twenty-year-old Smith has had a short but impressive run in the NASCAR Busch Series this year. Though he started the season with a team that said it was dedicated to running the complete schedule, economics forced a change in plans leaving the talented young driver on the sidelines following the summer Daytona race. Regan has competed in 17 of the Busch Series races this year and had moved into second place in the 2003 Raybestos Rookie standings after Daytona.(PR)(11-11-2003)
