NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series
Next Race: TSport 200
The Place: Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park
Track Length: 0.686 Mile Asphalt Oval
The Date: Friday, July 25
The Time: 8 p.m. ET
The Purse: $782,900
TV: FS1, 8 p.m. ET
Radio: NRN, SiriusXM NASCAR (Channel 90)
Distance: 137.2 miles (200 Laps); Stage 1 (Ends on Lap 60),
Stage 2 (Ends on Lap 120), Final Stage (Ends on Lap 200)
Where To Watch NASCAR This Weekend:
Friday, July 25
NCTS Practice & Kennametal Pole Qualifying (FS1 at 3 p.m. ET)
NCTS Race: TSport 200 (FS1, NRN, SiriusXM at 8 p.m. ET)
NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series
Indianapolis Storylines and Insights:
• This weekend marks the 21st running of a NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park (1995-2025).
• This is the 16th race of the 2025 NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series schedule, three races to go until the Playoffs.
• Stages for LOIRP: Lap 60, Lap 120, Lap 200.
• ThorSport got their first win of the season at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park in 2024, it was race 15 of the season.
• Seven of 10 Playoff positions are now held by race winners with three to go in the regular season, every driver with a win is locked into the Playoffs.
• There are two short tracks (LOIRP and Richmond) and a road course (Watkins Glen) in the final three races of the regular season.
• Ty Majeski won at both Indianapolis and Richmond in 2024.
• Ty Majeski won the last two races at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park.
• The last time Tyler Ankrum finished outside the top-10 on a short track was 2023 (10 short-track races since).
• It will be 27 days between Lime Rock and Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, the longest stretch without a race in the 2025 season.
• There will not be more than one off week between events for the final 10 races of 2025.
• Corey Heim won Stage 2 in the last five races of 2025, the longest streak of all time.
• Stewart Friesen will be making his 200th CRAFTSMAN Truck Series start this weekend, no driver has ever won in their 200th Truck start with the best result being Brendan Gaughan finishing second at Charlotte in May 2013.
• Tyler Ankrum will make his 150th consecutive CRAFTSMAN Truck Series start this weekend, the third longest streak among active drivers.
• Corey Heim has held the regular season points lead since the fourth race of 2025.
• Corey Heim can clinch the regular season Championship by scoring 39 points at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, Heim is averaging 46 pts/race in 2025.
• Corey Heim is averaging 46 pts/race in 2025, the most all-time.
• Chandler Smith won the last two races on short-tracks, the only driver to win three straight short-track races was Ron Hornaday Jr. who won five straight in 1997 (Kyle Busch won in three consecutive short-track starts but they spanned four seasons between 2016 and 2019).
• Defending series champion, Ty Majeski, has won the last two consecutive Truck races at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park (2023-24). Grant Enfinger (2022) is the only other active driver with a win at LOIRP.
• Ty Majeski currently occupies the 10th and final Playoff transfer spot in the CRAFTSMAN Truck Series driver point standings, up +38 points on Jake Garcia in 11th, and up +65 points on Giovanni Ruggiero in 12th.
• Kaden Honeycutt in eighth (+67) and Grant Enfinger in ninth (+64) hold healthy leads above the Playoff cutline with three races to go.
• Corey Heim has won five of the 15 Truck Series races this season, his best finish at Indianapolis is fifth (2022).
• Corey Heim has accumulated 39 Playoff points this season. The all-time most Playoff points a Truck Series driver has earned to take into the Playoffs is 49 by John Hunter Nemechek in 2021.
NCTS Clinch Scenarios Following Lime Rock Park:
Already Clinched:
• The following seven drivers have clinched a spot in the 10-driver postseason field: Corey Heim, Chandler Smith, Layne Riggs, Daniel Hemric, Tyler Ankrum, Stewart Friesen and Rajah Caruth.
Can Clinch Via Win:
The following drivers would clinch on their win alone:
• Kaden Honeycutt, Grant Enfinger, Ty Majeski, Jake Garcia, Giovanni Ruggiero, Ben Rhodes, Tanner Gray, Connor Mosack, Matt Crafton, Andres Perez De Lara, Jack Wood, Matt Mills, Dawson Sutton, Spencer Boyd, Toni Breidinger and Frankie Muniz.
Can Clinch Regular Season Championship:
Additionally, the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Regular Season Championship could be clinched by the following drivers:
• Corey Heim: Would clinch with 39 points.
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