Corey Heim wins dramatic two-overtime NASCAR Truck Series slugfest at Texas: A casual glance at the box score might tell you Corey Heim’s victory in Friday night’s SpeedyCash.com 250 was a cakewalk.Quite the contrary. Heim’s 14th career win was anything but easy.(Read More)(5-3-2025)

#11-Corey Heim won the SpeedyCash.com 250 NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race at Texas Motor Speedway Friday night despite late caution flags, a run into overtime, and intense challenges by his rivals. The win was his third of the season, first at Texas, and the 14th of his career.
#19-Daniel Hemric was second, followed by #71-Rajah Caruth, pole-sitter, #18-Tyler Ankrum, #15-Tanner Gray, #99-Ben Rhodes, #88-Matt Crafton, #44-Bayley Currey, #26-Dawson Sutton, and #98-Ty Majeski in the top-10.
Heim had the strongest truck of the night, leading 96 laps and winning stage two. Three caution flags fell within the final 11 laps of the race. The final two restarts narrowly saw Heim maintain the lead as #71-Caruth and #99-Rhodes feverishly challenged for the top spot. On the last lap, #19-Hemric made a run at it but ran out of time.
#9-Grant Enfinger led 19 laps and won the opening stage, but he was involved in a late race wreck on lap 156 with #52-Stewart Friesen. The impact from Friesen’s machine caused track workers to repair a portion of the turn 4 wall. The race was red flagged for just under five minutes.
There were 15 lead changes among nine drivers and 11 cautions for 57 yellow flag laps.
The average speed of the race was: 102.008mph.
See race details at: Race Results, Driver Point Standings, Owner Point Standings, Cumulative Report, Penalty Report

Race Fast Facts – Texas
Corey Heim won the SpeedyCash.com 250, his 14th victory in 72 CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races.
This is his third victory and seventh top-10 finish in 2025.
This is his first victory and fourth top-10 finish in four races at Texas Motor Speedway.
Daniel Hemric (second) posted his fourth top-10 finish in five races at Texas Motor Speedway. It is his fifth top-10 finish in 2025.
Rajah Caruth (third) posted his first top-10 finish in three races at Texas Motor Speedway.
Dawson Sutton (ninth) was the highest finishing rookie.
Corey Heim leads the point standings by 46 points over Chandler Smith.
(NASCAR)

Truck Series Driver Point Standings after Texas:
Race 8 of 18 in the regular season:
1) #11-Corey Heim, 3 wins
2) #38-Chandler Smith, 1 win
3) #19-Daniel Hemric, 1 win
4) #18-Tyler Ankrum, 1 win
5) #98-Ty Majeski, 262, +58
6) #9-Grant Enfinger, 250, +46
7) #13-Jake Garcia, 244, +40
8) #34-Layne Riggs, 242, +38
9) #45-Kaden Honeycutt, 220, +16
10) #99-Ben Rhodes, 215, +11
Outside of the Round of 10
11) #52-Stewart Friesen, 204, -11
12) #15-Tanner Gray, 197, -18
13) #71-Rajah Caruth, 193, -22
14) #17-Gio Ruggiero, 187, -28
15) #15-Matt Crafton, 178, -37
See the Driver Point Standings, Owner Point Standings

Paint Sechemes

Race Updates:
Heim pulls ahead as Hemric charges, but Heim prevails.
Restart. Heim in the low lane with Caruth getting sideways behind him. Rhodes fighting Heim side by side.
Heim again chooses the inside. Rhodes outside.
Overtime.
Lap 167: Restart. Heim pulls out but RHodes, Caruth pull 3-wide. Caution for Mills. NASCAR says Heim the leader at the loop.
Lap 166: Heim chooses the inside with Rhodes outside again.
Lap 163: CAUTION Garcia and Mosack wreck.
Lap 161: Restart for Heim. He jumps out as Caruth and Rhodes side by side for second.
Lap 160: Heim chooses the inside lane with Rhodes on the outside of row 1. Caruth, Parsons, Hemric and Currey follow.
Lap 159: Wall repairs appear to be done.
Lap 158: Trucks on track clicking down laps as workers weld the wall.
Lap 157: Back to yellow. Red was a about 4 minutes. 10 laps to go.
Lap 156: RED FLAG for cleanup, repairs to the wall in turn 4.
Lap 155: CAUTION Friesen, Enfinger, Smith involved as the contenders get into it behind Heim. Friesen broke loose on the inside of Enfinger.
Lap 153: Restart. 14 to go. Heim leads. He pulls ahead entering 1-2. Friesen and Enfinger side by side at the line.
Lap 149: Heim leads them down pitroad. Enfinger, Friesen, Rhodes, Crafton follow…. Crafton hit with a pitroad penalty for improper fueling.
Lap 147: CAUTION. Heim’s 22-second lead erased as the yellow waves for Muniz. 20 to go.
Lap 144: Heim leads Smith by 16.058-seconds. Friesen, Rhodes and Enfinger follow in the top-5. Hocevar had dropped down pitroad for his lingering battery issues, and on exit, Breidinger was en route to turn into the garage and the two got togethr on pitroad.
Lap 136: Heim back to the lead as Garcia pits.
Lap 134: Stops continue to cycle through. Garcia leads over Heim.
Lap 129: Friesen pits. Caruth leads Garcia as stops continue.
Lap 128: Heim now pits for his stop. Friesen now leads.
Lap 121: Hocevar now abandons 2nd to pit. Heim leads Friesen now by 11.32-seconds.
Lap 118: 50 to go. Heim leads Hocevar by 5.33-seconds. Majeski has to drop to pitroad for a stop since he had stayed out on the last one. His stop will begin the cycle of green flag stops.
Lap 97: Caruth saves it after getting sideways.
Lap 96: Heim to the lead. Majeski drops to second as Hocevar trails.
Lap 94: Heim now on the backend of Majeski’s truck. Hocevar just a few truck lengths back.
Lap 93: Heim flies by Hocevar for second with his fresher tires.
Lap 87: Restart- Majeski now leads Hocevar, as they stayed out.
Lap 82: Pitstops. Heim leads them down. He prevails on exit over Smith, but 5 trucks stayed out. He’ll line up 6th.
Lap 80: Heim wins stage 2 over Smith and Enfinger.
Lap 76: Heim drives by Enfinger for the lead on the inside. One lap later, Enfinger falls to third behind Smith.
Lap 74: No luck for Smith. The two go back and forth but Heim prevails with 6 to go in the stage as Enfinger leads
Lap 72: Enfinger drives by with the lead following the restart. As they cross the line, Heim now trying to hold off Chandler Smith for second.
Lap 71: Back to green. Heim leads Enfinger, Hmric, Smith , Crafton and Friesen.
Lap 64: CAUTION Riggs spins into the grass after contact with Fenhaus. The wet grass from the earlier rain just obliterates the nose of his Ford.
Lap 62: Restart for Heim
Lap 57: Restart. Heim leads, but doesn’t take long before back to yellow. Perez spins with heavy contact to the wall.
Lap 52: CAUTION Riggs spins. Enfinger and Heim battling, and Heim scored the leader as the yellow waves.
Lap 48: Restart for Enfinger on stage 2. Hem quickly challenges.
Lap 40: Stage 1 complete. Enfinger with his first stage win of the year.
Lap 38: Restart as Crafton leads Enfinger. Enfinger with a good jump takes the spot entering 1.
Lap 35: Pitstops under yellow. Riggs relinquishes the lead. Crafton, ENfinger, trucks that previously pit, now cycle into the lead.
Lap 31: CAUTION Ruggiero has trouble, contact with Honeycutt. Friesen and Jones also involved.
Lap 27: Garcia now alongside Ankrum for the 2nd position.
Lap 26: Back to green for stage 1. Ankrum leads on the inside with Riggs pulling high challenging for the lead. He pulls ahead at the line.
Lap 22: Under yellow, Chandler Smith, Grant Enfinger, Ty Majeski, Jack Wood among those to pitroad. Ankrum stays out and keeps the lead.
Lap 20: Competition caution.
Lap 12: A dozen laps in. Competition caution around at or near lap 20 if one doesn’t fall beforehand. Ankrum still leads Riggs.
Lap 5: Ankrum now leads Layne Riggs by 2 seconds as he gets by Garcia, who is fighting a loose truck. Garcia, Caruth, Ruggiero follow in the top-5.
Lap 1: Pole-sitter Ankrum leads lap 1. Enfinger with a near miss at the start. Took it three-wide and got loose, sideways. Drops through the field.
8:23pm/et: Green flag

Race Information:
Broadcast: FS1, NRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio
Distance: 167 laps / 250.5 Miles
Stages: 40 / 80 / 167
Competition caution on or around Lap 20
Average time of race: 2:12:33
Pit road speed: 45 mph
Caution car speed: 55 mph
Fuel window: 52 laps
Invocation: 8:03
National Anthem: 8:04
Command: 8:11
Green Flag: 8:22pm/et

Trucks to the rear: none.

Pitstall Selections

#18-Tyler Ankrum will start from the pole for the SpeedyCash.com 250 for the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series at Texas Motor Speedway after rain forced the cancellation of practice and qualifying.
#19-Daniel Hemric will start second, followed by #13-Jake Garcia, #11-Corey Heim, #9-Grant Enfinger, #45-Kaden Honeycutt, #71-Rajah Caruth, #34-Layne Riggs, # 38-Chandler Smith, and #91-Jack Wood complete the top-10.
See the complete SpeedyCash.com 250 Starting Lineup

Qualifying Order

Goodyear Tire Notes: NASCAR Xfinity and Craftsman Truck Series teams will run a different tire set-up than those in the Cup Series at Texas this week . . . these teams are on the same combination of left- and right side tires they have run at this track since 2022 . . . these teams have run this same tire set-up at Las Vegas earlier this season . . . Truck teams are also scheduled to run it again at Kansas next week and Michigan in June

The entry list for the SpeedyCash.com 250 NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race at Texas Motor Speedway has been released. There are 32 drivers/teams for 36 spots. Some notes: #1-Brandon Jones, #07-Nick Sanchez, #7-Carson Hocevar, #20-Stephan Parsons.
See the complete SpeedyCash.com 250 at Texas Entry List page.

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Race rules and information:

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