Matt Smith Racing
Victory Motorcycles pro Matt Smith has Gunner ready for first playoff session
CHARLOTTE – The first elimination field of the 2016 playoffs is set, and two-time Pro Stock Motorcycle champion 
Matt Smith is ready to make his mark in this year’s Countdown to the Championship.
Smith successfully placed his beautiful matte silver Victory Gunner in the field with a pass of 6.878 seconds at 194.18 mph in Saturday’s opening qualifying session. The fact the round took place at about the same time as Sunday’s first round of eliminations is slated to start is something that has the 43-year-old dreaming big.
“We were one of the quicker bikes in that round, so if the weather and the conditions do stay about the same tomorrow, which is what we’re being told, we should be able to have a good start to race day,” Smith said. “Nothing is easy at this level. You look at the bikes that didn’t make the field and that tells you that if you don’t bring your A-game to the line for every round, you will not have a good day.
Matt and Angie Smith, Hector Arana Sr. visit Salisbury VA Medical Center
SALISBURY, NC – NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle riders Matt and Angie Smith and Hector Arana Sr. visited the W.G. 
Hefner VA Medical Center on Thursday in support of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Million Veteran Program.
The Million Veteran Program (http://www.research.va.gov/mvp/default.cfm) is a national, voluntary research study to learn how genes affect health and how it can benefit veterans. Recently, MVP crossed the 500,000-member mark.
The Smiths and Arana met with numerous veterans at the hospital, signing autographs and spending time with our nation’s heroes.
Plenty left to accomplish in 2016 for Victory Motorcycles rider Angie Smith
CHARLOTTE – For Victory Motorcycles rider Angie Smith, the 2016 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season 
begins again at the NHRA Carolina Nationals this weekend in Charlotte.
Smith didn’t qualify for the Countdown to the Championship, the six-race stretch that determines the 2016 Pro Stock Motorcycle champion, but her season is hardly over.
Six races remain for Smith to contend for race victories, to prepare for the 2017 season, and to help husband Matt Smith win the championship this year.
Victory Motorcycles rider Matt Smith knows the Countdown is the time to ‘get hot’
CHARLOTTE – Victory Motorcycles rider Matt Smith isn’t worried at all about the deficit he faces as the Countdown 
to the Championship begins this weekend at the NHRA Carolina Nationals in Charlotte.
Smith begins the playoffs in ninth place in the Pro Stock Motorcycle standings, 100 points out of the lead. He has six races to earn his third championship, and his experience from his 2013 season tells him anything can happen.
Smith lost in the second round of the first race of the Countdown that year, but he then stormed to four consecutive final rounds, winning three races and clinching the title at the penultimate event of the season, in Las Vegas.
Matt Smith clinches first-ever playoff berth for Victory Motorcycles
INDIANAPOLIS – All Victory Motorcycles racer Matt Smith needs is a little luck to battle for victories and the Pro 
Stock Motorcycle championship.
Smith, though, got no luck at all in the first round of the Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals on Monday at Lucas Oil Raceway. His combined reaction time/elapsed time would have beaten every other rider in the first round, except the guy he raced. And that guy, L.E. Tonglet, needed to set the fastest speed of the weekend to beat Smith.
“I’ve had no luck on Sunday this year, and I really thought with it being a Monday race we might get a little luck, but it doesn’t matter,” Smith said. “Maybe NHRA needs to make a Saturday night race so I can have some luck.”
Matt Smith has designs on a second Indy crown as U.S Nationals turn to eliminations
INDIANAPOLIS – It has been a decade since two-time world champion Matt Smith last won drag racing’s most 
prestigious and longest-running national event, and the way the Victory Motorcycles factory rider sees things, 10 years is long enough.
“Man, I want to win this thing more than you know,” Smith said. “It’s Indy, and aside from winning the championship, this is as big as it gets in our sport. Back then, 10 years ago, it was the biggest day of my career. Even now, if I were to win again tomorrow, even with our two world titles in hand, it would still rank way, way up there.”
Two riders, one goal: Take a Victory Gunner to Indy’s Winner’s Circle
INDIANAPOLIS – Matt and Angie Smith, the only husband/wife duo in the professional ranks of NHRA Drag 
Racing, may occasionally have to race each other on the track. But aside from those rare instances, the pair of factory Victory Motorcycles Pro Stock Motorcycle riders are unified in their goal of bringing home national event trophies for their sponsors, and none is more valuable in the drag racing world than the one up for grabs this weekend at the 62nd annual Chevrolet Performance U.S. Nationals.
Angie Smith
“We enter every race with the same goal, to win,” Angie said. “Whether it’s Matthew or me, we fight with everything we have to get that Wally (trophy) at the end of the day. We are a true team, both in our personal lives and at the races, and it’s awesome to know my husband and best friend is also my teammate and crew chief.
Victory Motorcycles riders Matt and Angie Smith leave Brainerd wanting more
BRAINERD, MN – Cheered on by an enthusiastic group of Polaris employees up for the Twin Cities, Victory 
Motorcycles factory riders Matt and Angie Smith did their best to show off in front of their title sponsors during Sunday’s eliminations of the 35th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals.
Just as it was in qualifying, Matt did a bit better than his popular wife, racing past Hector Arana Sr. to the quarterfinals before losing to Hector Arana Jr. Angie took her shot at red-hot pro Angelle Sampey and pulled off a big starting-line advantage, only to be caught and passed downtrack in the day’s opening session.
“There is something binding up in these motors whenever they got hot and it’s just robbing us of horsepower,” Matt said. “All three days here the Victory Gunner ran perfect in the first round of the day, and then it would bind up and slow down in the second pass of the day. Unfortunately, that trend continued today in eliminations.
Victory Motorcycles pros Matt and Angie Smith trying hard to impress bosses in Brainerd
BRAINERD, MN – With more than 180 Polaris and Victory Motorcycle employees visiting from the Twin Cities, 
Victory Motorcycles factory riders Matt and Angie Smith are doing all they can to impress their team sponsors at this weekend’s 35th annual Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals.
Through four qualifying sessions, Matt has been the stronger of the sport’s only husband/wife professional duo, locking down the No. 6 position overall with a strong 6.879-second pass at 194.66 mph on his Victory Gunner.
“I’m very pleased with everything so far,” Matt said. “We were No. 1 qualifier after the first session and in Q3 we posted our best e.t. and had the fastest run of everyone out there, so it’s hard to ask for more. I think we probably had a 6.86 in it last night (in Q2), but the bike wouldn’t shift into 2nd gear. That’s happened enough times now that I pretty much spent the night reworking my transmission so it won’t happen again.
Matt Smith ready for change in fortune at Victory Motorcycles’ home race
BRAINERD, MN – Victory Motorcycles rider Matt Smith wants to win every race he enters. That kind of desire has 
made him a two-time Pro Stock Motorcycle champion and one of the racers to beat every week on the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series tour.
But he would really love to win the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals this weekend at Brainerd International Raceway because Victory Motorcycles is based in Medina, Minn., not far from Brainerd.
Smith and wife/teammate Angie are in their second season racing Victory Gunners in the Pro Stock Motorcycle class. This weekend, 180-plus Polaris employees from offices in Medina, Roseau, Bass Creek, Osceola, and Spirit Lake will be on hand to see them perform live. Polaris is the parent company of Victory Motorcycles.
