Heim Scores “Texas Sized Victory,” Wins 3rd Truck Race of 2025

Corey Heim celebrates in victory lane after winning the Speedycash.com 250 at Texas Motor Speedway on Friday night. (Photo Credit: Sean Folsom | The Podium Finish)

FORT WORTH, Texas — It was another night of dominance from the Marietta, Georgia native, as Corey Heim picked up his third NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series win of 2025, taking home the victory in Friday night’s SpeedyCash.com 250 at Texas Motor Speedway.

Heim has been nothing short of brilliant through the first eight races of the year, scoring five top 5s, seven top 10s, and 440 laps led. He leads in all major statistical categories, except for average start.

After the rain washed away practice and qualifying on Friday afternoon, reigning Truck Series winner from Rockingham Speedway, Tyler Ankrum, led the 32-truck field to green for the 167-lap sprint, with McAnally-Hilgemann Racing teammate Daniel Hemric to his outside.

Ankrum and Layne Riggs duked it out for the race lead for the majority of Stage 1 before the first big crash of the day struck on Lap 32 after Sunoco Rookie contender Gio Ruggiero swiped the grass exiting the tri-oval, obliterating the front of his No. 17 Toyota Tundra, collecting TRICON Garage teammate of Brandon Jones, along with Kaden Honeycutt and Stewart Friesen.

Kaden Honeycutt suffered a vicious crash in Friday evening’s NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race at Texas Motor Speedway after Gio Ruggiero clipped the grass, triggering a multi-truck crash. (Photo Credit: Rachel Schuoler | The Podium Finish)

Grant Enfinger took the lead with four laps left in the stage, securing the late-stage victory over Matt Mills and Matt Crafton for his first stage win of the 2025 season.

After Riggs spun out while exiting Turn 2 in the latter portion of Stage 2, Heim and Enfinger battled for the lead, allowing Heim to take over and win Stage 2.

Corey Heim showed out with his new look in the No. 11 Toyota Tundra, with sponsorship from the Safelite Foundation and Foster Love at Texas Motor Speedway. (Photo Credit: Rachel Schuoler | The Podium Finish)

The dynamics of the race shifted significantly after the second stage break. During a 60-lap green-flag run that started on Lap 87 and included a series of green-flag pit stops, Heim established a lead of 15.794 seconds. However, the race took a turn when Frankie Muniz crashed in Turn 2 on Lap 147, resulting in the eighth caution of the night.

After Heim got away with 15 laps to go from Enfinger, Friesen was involved in yet another incident while running third, after getting loose underneath Enfinger, collecting both trucks as well as Chandler Smith, setting the race up for a seven-lap shootout to decide the winner.

Heim had to maintain his composure for two additional cautions following the restart, which occurred after Connor Mosack and Jake Garcia collided while exiting Turn 2, and then a debris caution was called.

Once the 12th and final caution had been cleared, Heim accelerated to the limit during the second attempt at NASCAR overtime, surpassing Hemric and Rajah Caruth to secure his series-high third victory of 2025.

“I wasn’t letting them take that away from me.” Said an enthusiastic Heim following his dominant win at Texas Motor Speedway on Friday night.

“I’ve given up way too many this year so far, just so proud of the TRICON (Garage) guys, so special to win for the National Foster Care Awareness Month with this blue truck.  Just overwhelmed, so many restarts at the end, guys were trying to slide it three-wide at the end into Turn 1, and just drove until I couldn’t anymore.”

“I knew when they got side by side I’d have a big run,” Hemric expressed his excitement after achieving two consecutive top-three finishes, including the runner-up result.

“I didn’t know if I had enough pure tire capability left to make the move, and kind of created just enough angle to get left of the 11 to get three-wide at the bottom, just didn’t have enough left to make it stick through one and two. So either way, we were not good when we started. (Crew chief) Josh Graham did the exceptional job of tuning on me correctly, in the right direction, and yeah, ultimately found ourselves with the opportunity and stayed quite close.”

Caruth, Ankrum, and Tanner Gray rounded out the top 5.

Ben Rhodes, Crafton, Bayley Currey, Dawson Sutton, and Ty Majeski completed the top 10 finishers on Friday night.

Heim continues to lead the Truck Series points standings as the series ventures to Kansas Speedway next Saturday for the running of the Heart Of Health Care 200.

Stage 1 Results
1. Grant Enfinger
2. Matt Mills
3. Matt Crafton
4. Daniel Hemric
5. Corey Heim
6. Ty Majeski
7. Tanner Gray
8. Carson Hocevar
9. Chandler Smith
10. Layne Riggs

Stage 2 Results
1. Corey Heim
2. Chandler Smith
3. Grant Enfinger
4. Daniel Hemric
5. Stewart Friesen
6. Ben Rhodes
7. Jake Garcia
8. Tyler Ankrum
9. Ty Majeski
10. Matt Crafton

2025 Speedycash.com 250 Texas Motor Speedway NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Results