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Offseason Crewing and New Things Brewing for Lane Snook in 2026

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Port Royal, PA – January 21, 2026
by Derick Kriner / Addicted2Dirt PR & Media Mgmt
Image Credit: Ryan Roberts Photography

With the career season of 2025 behind him, the offseason was a great time for the team to reflect and get prepared for 2026. The “offseason” for Lane, however, has consisted of a lot of travel and crew work. “I left to go on the road Saturday night, after I raced at Eldora.”

Since that October date, Lane has been traveling around with the G.R. Smith Motorsports 22 team and Drake Troutman. Helping out on the crew and gaining more experience, and even getting to participate in the pitstop challenge at Gateway Dirt Nationals, the winter months have been busy.

Traveling coast to coast and visiting tracks like Charlotte, Whynot, the Dome, and Central Arizona has made for a quick offseason. The road tripping will continue as the 22 team heads to the southeast to race in Georgia and Florida.

“I’ve probably been home 3, maybe 4 weeks since then (October),” stated Snook. “I’ll be down in Georgia and Florida until about the middle of March, when I fly back home to start racing.” While March will start the race season in Pennsylvania for Lane, his actual race season will kick off in a few weeks time at the DIRTCar Nationals at Volusia Speedway Park.

In a deal that has been in the works for a little bit, Lane will have the opportunity to pilot the Jerry Foster-owned number 5, UMP modified. The division that races the most and is coined the “Iron Men of DIRTCar Nationals”, Snook will get to try his hand at racing one of the biggest and most talented fields in the modified division.

“I think Jerry wanted to race more often than Drake was able to, so Drake threw the idea around of putting me in it, as I wanted to go to Florida and race. Since Drake is planning on racing the late model while the mods are at Volusia, the deal just kind of came together.” Lane has helped out with not only the late model side of Drake’s racing venture, but has also helped a few times with the 5 car, when Drake has run modifieds. Snook had gotten the chance to get to know Jerry Foster through this, and it will hopefully benefit both parties.

The young Port Royal, PA racer will plan to race “Tuesday or Wednesday, through Saturday (Feb 3rd-7th), then we’ll see how that goes and see if Jerry wants to do anything after that.” This will be a great chance for the young driver to prove what he has, but it won’t come without challenges. This is a new track for Lane and a new car to learn.

With a big season planned for 2026 in the late model ranks, Lane will then have to refocus after this long trip away. Time away for Snook has helped in the past, and all of the things he has learned have definitely started to pay off for him. So aside from the new opportunity at the start of the year down south, what does preparation for 2026 in the northeast look like?

“My crew has been hard at work getting the cars done at home, so I’m able to race this year.”

Being that in past seasons, Lane was at home more to assist with prep, the burden lands on the crew, but after such success in 2025, there is no doubt that the family and crew know how to get the cars prepared and have them ready to compete come March. The super late model season is still planned to kick off for Lane at Port Royal in late March. While the team schedule is still being figured out, Lane will plan to focus on more super late model racing in 2026 and continue to grow and learn from his time on the road.

With the success of last season and Snook tallying 20 wins, new eyes and attention have found the team. “We have a lot of great new sponsors that I’m looking forward to getting their product or business out to the racing world.”

As Lane continues to build his racing career, all of the preparation from not only a race car standpoint, but also a sponsor and fan standpoint, grows and brings about exciting opportunities to build his brand. “We are working on T-shirts and hats,” mentioned Snook.

“It wouldn’t be possible without my parents for supporting me to do what I love, all of the crew help that I have at home, and all the great sponsors that continue to help me out every year, and all of the new sponsors coming on board!”

Fans can tune in to watch the DIRTCar Nationals via DIRTVision to see the start of Lane’s season. Make sure to stay tuned to upcoming releases to get schedule updates and also check out the team’s website, LaneSnookRacing.com, for updates and stats.
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ABOUT LANE SNOOK

Lane Snook is a 3rd generation race car driver who is entering his 11th year behind the wheel at the age of 17. After racing go-karts for several years, he made the move into the limited late model division in 2023. In 2024, he saw great success in the division, collecting 5 wins at 2 different tracks. In 2025, he recorded 20 wins in limited late model competition. In 2026, he will make the move to the super late model division while still competing part-time in his limited late model.

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