Smith manages Raceway

Craig Smith, formerly of Odessa, is the new general manager at Spokane County Raceway (SCR). He has said he plans to find the same winning combinations there, as he did on the track where he won multiple top-fuel championships and set world records behind the wheel of his race cars.

Smith knows about success on the SCR track. Now he hopes he can translate what it took to win five American Hot Rod Association World Finals top-fuel dragster titles over the years at the Airway Heights strip and drive the facility to rediscover its past popularity.

Smith is taking an approach that has not before b...