Corey Heim shakes off pressure to win NASCAR Truck Series championship: The best man won on Friday night, but it was far from a foregone conclusion.The statistics might suggest otherwise. In winning the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Championship Race at Phoenix Raceway, Corey Heim swept the first and second stages, led a race-high 100 of 161 laps and took the checkered flag 0.993 ahead of defending series champion Ty Majeski in a second overtime.(Read More)(10-31-2025)

#11-Corey Heim did what he’s done all season at the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Championship Race at Phoenix Raceway; dominated the race, swept the opening stages, and wowed in the closing laps to pull off an overtime comeback to win his 12th race of the season and the 2025 CRAFTSMAN Truck Series championship.
It was his first race win at Phoenix, and the 23rd of his career.
A caution sent the race into overtime on lap 150 while Heim rode second, and while the other playoff contenders chose two-tire changes, Heim’s crew opted for four. He lined up for the restart from the 10th position. When the green flag dropped, his fresh tires allowed him to drop low on track, riding a jaw-dropping seven-wide dash for position.
Heim climbed his way into second behind #98-Ty Majeski before another yellow dropped, forcing a repeat overtime restart. Heim chose the inside while Majeski lined up on the outside lane. The fresh tires were all Heim needed for the final two laps as he drove to the win.
The 2024 champion Majeski, finished second.
#52-Kaden Honeycutt was in contention all race long as well and finished third, lining up behind Heim for the final restart.
#18-Tyler Aknkrum, the final playoff driver, finished 14th after being involved in the final caution of the night.
#34-Layne Riggs started from the pole, but inspection failures forced him to relinquish his starting position and serve a penalty at the start. He clawed his way through the field and led 24 laps up until the first overtime caution on lap 150. He finished fourth.
#71-Rajah Caruth, #13-Jake Garcia, #77-Corey LaJoie, #38-Chandler Smith, #41-Tyler Reif in his series debut, and #91-Jack Wood closed out the top-10.
There were 10 lead changes among six drivers and seven cautions for 42 yellow flag laps.
The average speed of the race was: 87.434mph.
See race details at: Race Results, Driver Point Standings, Owner Point Standings, Cumulative Report, Penalty Report

Final Truck Series Driver Point Standings after Phoenix:
Race 3 of 3 in the Round of 8:
1) #11-Corey Heim, 4040
2) #98-Ty Majeski, 4035
3) #52-Kaden Honeycutt, 4034
4) #18-Tyler Ankrum, 4023
See the Driver Point Standings, Owner Point Standings

Race Fast Facts – Phoenix
Corey Heim (P) won the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Championship, his 23rd victory in 89 CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races.
This is his 12th victory and 21st top-10 finish in 2025. This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in four races at Phoenix Raceway.
Ty Majeski (P) (second) posted his second top-10 finish in five races at Phoenix Raceway. It is his 18th top-10 finish in 2025.
Kaden Honeycutt (P) (third) posted his fourth top-10 finish in four races at Phoenix Raceway.
Frankie Muniz (19th) was the highest finishing rookie.
Corey Heim (P) leads the point standings by 6 points over Ty Majeski (P) and wins the 2025 NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Championship.
Heim is the first driver to win 12 races in a single season, broke Greg Biffle’s Record of 9 set in 1999
Heim is the first driver to lead a lap in every race of a season (25 races) Heim set the record for most stage wins in a season with 23 Heim has led 1,627 laps in 2025 the most ever in a season
Giovanni Ruggiero has won the 2025 Sunoco Rookie of the Year in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series.
Toyota wins the 2025 Manufacturers Championship in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series.
(NASCAR)(10-31-2025)

Champion Fast Facts
Driver Champion: Corey Heim
Team: No. 11 TRICON Garage Toyota
• Corey Heim has won his first NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Championship, becoming the 22nd different driver to win the CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Driver Championship all-time.
• Heim won the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck season finale at Phoenix Raceway to win the title. Heim finished the 2025 season with 25 starts, 12 wins, 19 top fives, 21 top 10s and seven poles.
• During the Playoffs this season, Heim has posted five wins, seven top fives, seven top 10s and two poles in seven starts.
• Heim, from Marietta, Georgia, is the first and only NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series champion from the state of Georgia.
Crew Chief Champion: Scott Zipadelli
• This is Scott Zipadelli’s second career NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Championship (2018, 2025) – the first was with driver Brett Moffitt at Hattori Racing Enterprises, and this season’s is with driver Corey Heim.
• Zipadelli the eighth different crew chief to win multiple Truck Series titles (2018, 2025); joining Carl Joiner (2013, 2014, 2019), Dennis Connor (1997, 1999, 2001), Mike Hillman Jr. (2006, 2010), Rick Ren (2007, 2009), Ryan ‘Rudy’ Fugle (2015, 2017), Rich Lushes (2021, 2023), Joe Shear Jr. (2016, 2024).
• Zipadelli has 36 career NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series victories – Brett Moffit (seven wins), Austin Hill (eight wins) and Corey Heim (21 wins).
Owner Champion: David Gilliland & Johnny Gray, TRICON Garage
• This is TRICON Garage’s first NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series driver and owner championship (Corey Heim, 2024).
• TRICON Garage is the 18th different organization to win a NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series driver championship, and the 18th different organization to win an owners championship.
• TRICON Garage has posted 26 wins in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series among five different drivers – Corey Heim (21 wins), Ryan Preece (two), Tyler Ankrum (one), Todd Gilliland (one) and Giovanni Ruggiero (one).
• With origins in team DGR-Crosely, owner David Gilliland of TRICON Garage fielded the organization’s first truck in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series with driver Bo LeMastus at Daytona International Speedway on February 16, 2018.
(NASCAR)(10-31-2025)

Race Updates:
Heim is the 2025 Champion via his 12th season win. Majeski second, Honeycutt, third. Ankrum finishes 14th, the final playoff driver.
Riggs, Caruth, Garcia, LaJoie, Smith, Reif, and Wood the top-10.
White flag as Heim leads unchallenged.
Restart. Heim on the inside with the fresher tires makes fast work on Majeski and pulls to the lead.
Choose. Majeski takes the high lane. Heim inside with his fresh tires. Honeycutt chooses the inside behind Heim. Top-3 after the title.
Back to caution.
RED FLAG for cleanup
CAUTION Multi-truck wreck including playoff driver Ankrum, Butcher involved.
Restart. 7-wide on the restart. There were trucks everywhere and somehow Heim drives from 10th to 2nd.
Parsons and Butcher show as the leaders as they stayed out. Majeski will line up third. Caruth, Honeycutt, Enfinger, Gray, Ankrum, Riggs, Heim the top-10. Majeski and Honeycutt take the outside. Heim, deeper in the field, takes the inside lane with his fresher tires.
Lap 150: Pitstops. Ankrum takes 2. Honeycutt, 2. Heim takes 4. Heim will be the lowest championshio driver for the overtime restart.
Lap 148: CAUTION Mosack with a tire going down, gets into the wall. Overtime will be coming.
Lap 142: 8 to go. Riggs leads by nearly a second. Heim second over Majeski, Honeycutt. Ankrum sits 10th.
Lap 135: 15 to go. Riggs leads Heim by a half second. Majeski, 2 truck lengths behind Heim. Honeycutt follows in 4th.
Lap 127: Riggs with the pass on Heim uncontended. Heim settles behind him in 2nd with Majeski and Honeycutt not far behind.
Lap 126: Riggs lies by and claims 2nd. Majeski and Honeycutt now battle for 3, 4th.
Lap 124: Heim on the outside, Majeski inside. Heim pulls away heading to 4.
Lap 120: Back to yellow. Ankrum pits for fresh tires. Heim leads Majeski, Honeycutt, Riggs, Garcia. 30 to go.
RED FLAG for cleanup
Lap 119: CAUTION is out. Multi-truck wreck. Rhodes, Ruggiero, Garcia, Currey – heavy damage. Perez drifts up track and begins the incident. He hits the outside wall hard, with 3 wheels coming off of the ground.
Lap 117: Restart as Heim leads from the outside. Honeycutt drops it low and hangs it out, but Heim pulls ahead. Majeski and Honeycutt side by side.. CAUTION
Lap 113: CAUTION Clayton Green spins from the inside of Muniz. Riggs and Caruth surrender position from within the top-10 and pits. Crews had just gotten around Majeski for second. Honeycutt now behind Majeski in the top-4. Ankrum, the last playoff driver, takes advantage of the others pitting and now sits 8th.
Lap 100: Heim to the lead over Majeski.
Lap 99: Restart. Majeski lead with Heim in 2nd
Lap 96: Heim leads them down pitroad. Spins his tires again on exit due to the slick rubber build-up. Majeski out first and now leads. Crews, Caruth, Gray, Honeycutt, Riggs follow. Ankrum is 18th.
Lap 90: Heim wins stage 2. Majeski 2nd. Crews, Honeycutt, Caruth follow.
Lap 85: Majeski is 1.866-seconds behind Heim. Honeycutt is up to 4th. Ankrum 17th.
Lap 75: Heim maintains the lead. Pole-sitter Riggs is up to 8th after starting in the rear and serving a penalty at the start.
Lap 61: Majeski prevails for second. He trails Heim by 1.5-seconds. Honeycutt 5th. Ankrum 15th.
Lap 55: Caruth leads the field to green. He was scored the leader on exit of pitroad on review… Heim however, reclaims. Caruth and Majeski for second.
Lap 50: Heim leads them down pitroad and maints off. Caruth second off. Crews, Majeski. Gray follow. Heim has trouble on exit with his back wheels spinning in the rubber in his box as he left.
Lap 40: Heim wins stage 1. Crews, Majeski, Caruth, Gray. LaJoie, Honeycutt, Parsons, Garcia, Ruggiero are the top-10. Ankrum was 14th.
Lap 30: 10 to go in the stage. Crews is second. Majeski 3rd. Honeycutt is 8th and Ankrum is 14th, the lowest championship driver. Smith, who led the first 21 laps, has fallen to 24th, 1 lap down. He reported a vibration and had to pit on lap 27.
Lap 22: Heim has closed in on Smith and makes the move on the inside for the lead. He has now led every race this year.
Lap 15: Chandler Smith continues to lead… Corey Heim now sits second, a half second back. Crews, Majeski follow. Honeycutt is 15th, Ankrum, 17th.
Lap 10: After serving his penalty, Riggs now hoping to stay ahead of the leaders on the lead lap. He is the last truck on the lead lap in 32nd.
Lap 7: Back to green as Chandler Smith leads.
Lap 1: CAUTION trouble for Dawson Sutton. Hemric gets loose and Sutton gets caught up. Damage on all sides of his truck.
• 7:53pm/et – Green flag
• 7:42pm/et – Engines are fired.
• 7:33pm/et – Pre-race ceremonies are underway.
• 7:30pm/et – FS1 now has race coverage
• Riggs is the only driver to the rear tonight.

Trucks to the rear: #34-Riggs (inspection failure)

Race Information:
Broadcast: FS1, NRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio
Distance: 150 laps / 150 Miles
Stages: 45 / 90 / 150
Average time of race: 1:58:33
Pit road speed: 45 mph
Caution car speed: 50 mph
Fuel window: 75 laps
Timing (all times local & subject to change)
Invocation: 4:33:20 p.m.
National Anthem: 4:34:00 p.m.
Command: 4:41:00 p.m.
Green Flag: 4:50:00 p.m.

Pitstall Selections

#34-Layne Riggs won the pole for the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Championship Race at Phoenix Raceway with a speed of 134.796mph for his fourth pole of the season, first at Phoenix, and the fourth pole of his career.
Riggs however, will be forced to start in the rear and serve a pass-through penalty at the start after the team was found to have added an extra panel to the floorboard in inspection.
#38-Chandler Smith will start second, followed by #1-Brent Crews, #15-Tanner Gray, and #52, Kaden Honeycutt in the top-five.
Honeycutt was the highest qualifying playoff driver. #11-Corey Heim will start on his heels in sixth. #98-Ty Majeski will line up eighth and #18-Tyler Ankrum will take the green flag from 21st.
See the complete Truck Series Championship Race Starting Lineup and check out the complete Qualifying Results.

Qualifying Fast Facts – Phoenix:
Layne Riggs (P) won the Kennametal Pole Award for the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Championship Race with a lap of 26.707 seconds, 134.796 mph.
This is his fourth pole in 54 NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races.
This is his fourth pole and 17th top-10 start in 2025.
This is his first pole in three races at Phoenix Raceway.
Chandler Smith (second) posted his 14th top-10 start of 2025 and his third in five races at Phoenix Raceway.
Brent Crews (third) posted his first top-10 start at Phoenix Raceway. It is his fifth in ten races this season.
Giovanni Ruggiero (ninth) was the fastest qualifying rookie.
Due to a inspection issue, Layne Riggs will have to drop to the tail end of the field and perform a pass through after taking the green flag.
(NASCAR)

Inspection update: The No. 34 truck added a panel to the oil that closes off the area between it and the floorboard which is not permitted. The driver (Layne Riggs) will drop to the rear of the field prior to the start of tonight’s race, and he’ll have to serve a pass-through penalty after taking the green flag, and his crew chief (Dylan Cappello) has been ejected for the remainder of the race event. Additionally, the team will be required to qualify.

Practice for the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Championship Race at Phoenix Raceway is over; the top-five, slowest and notes:
#98-Ty Majeski 133.764
#34-Layne Riggs 133.714
#1-Brent Crews 132.245
#71-Rajah Caruth 132.081
#17-Gio Ruggiero 131.737
Slowest: #74-Caleb Costner 120.683
Most laps run: #41-Tyler Reif, 45
Playoff drivers: Majeski was fastest throughout the session.
#18-Tyler Ankrum, 7th
#52-Kaden Honeycutt, 12th
#11-Corey Heim, 15th.
Heim had a flat near the end of practice and did not make a qualifying run.
See complete results on the practice speeds page.

Crew Rosters

Qualifying Order

Goodyear Tire Notes: While the Truck Series didn’t race at Phoenix in the spring, teams have run this setup at four other short tracks this season: North Wilkesboro Speedway, Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park, Richmond Raceway and New Hampshire Motor Speedway.

The entry list for the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Championship Race at Phoenix Raceway has been released. There are 34 drivers/teams for 36 spots.
Some notes: #7-Stefan Parsons, #35-Greg Van Alst, #41-Tyler Reif, #62-Cole Butcher.
See the complete Truck Series Championship Race entry list.

At Track Schedule

Race rules and information:

• Inspection Penalty Protocol
• Pit Road Penalties
• Pit Road Speeds
• Points Explanation
• Qualifying Procedures