Corey Heim gets record 10th Truck win of 2025 at Charlotte Roval
CONCORD, N.C. — Corey Heim set a new single-season win record in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series with a win that put him in the Championship 4.
Heim won Friday’s race in overtime at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval road course. He led TRICON Garage’s first-ever 1-2-3 finish with Brent Crews and Gio Ruggiero in second and third.
Crews took the lead after Heim crashed from the pole in the very first turn on the race. The crash caved in the right side of Heim’s truck and damaged the front end.
Luckily, the damage didn’t slow Heim and his team down. Heim worked his way back into the top-five but had to chase down Crews.
In regulation, no one ever passed Crews for the lead. He only lost it to Kaden Honeycutt during green flag pit stops before the stages Honeycutt swept.
With the stages out of the way, Crews took the lead and pulled away from everyone by multiple seconds. He led Heim by around two seconds and a nearly double-digit lead over third when the caution came out.
The caution was for teammate Toni Breidinger. According to Crews’ team, Breidinger ran out of gas about a lap after Crews reported his truck stumbled.
As a result, Crews pitted — while Heim stayed out.
“Well, we’re f-cked.”
Was the team radio communication a bluff? Maybe. Heim went to victory lane after leading the final five laps and doing a burnout.
After leading 56 of Friday’s 70 laps, Crews looked on in second with disappointment — but gratitude prevailed.
“I’m just grateful to be running races and learning more and more and more. We had a super fast truck as you guys got to see… Congrats to the 11 team. I definitely didn’t want to see them stay out there, it sucks, but I learned a lot today,” Crews said.
Crews’ first win is surely coming. Once he starts, Heim’s win record may not be safe.
Kaden Honeycutt finished 14th after sweeping the stages. He ran inside the top-five with a few laps to go but a spin on the final lap evaporated the points he gained.
“It’s hard to hold my tongue about this. I just, I don’t understand why stuff like this happens. All year, I mean, we rank good and just had no results. It is just something that’s not out of our doing and, you know, it’s what it is. Thankfully, we’re only 4 under so it could be a whole lot worse,” Honeycutt said.
Layne Riggs finished 21st after an issue on the first lap that left him with damage. Although he restarted up front for overtime, he had another issue that put him back in the back.
Fellow playoff driver Grant Enfinger upset Riggs.
“We just got wrecked by the 9. I don’t really understand what his thought process is. People say you’re supposed to take advice from the veterans and learn from them of how to race and they race the worst out of anybody. That’s twice this year we’ve gotten wrecked by the 9 truck – at Watkins Glen and here, both road courses, two separate incidents, two blatantly wrong on his part. We drug a sway bar arm off after that contact and just had a terrible handling truck the rest of the day,” Riggs said.
Riggs, Enfinger, Majeski and Honeycutt are all below the cutline after the Charlotte Roval:
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series standings after Charlotte Roval
- Corey Heim WIN
- Tyler Ankrum +2
- Daniel Hemric +2
- Rajah Caruth +1
- Layne Riggs -1
- Ty Majeski -2
- Grant Enfinger -4
- Kaden Honeycutt -4
Heim is still not guaranteed to be the champion. The championship will come down to one race — Oct. 31 at Phoenix Raceway — where he will find out if the finale is a trick or a treat for his effort this season.
Next up for the series is the Oct. 17 race at Talladega.
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Jonathan Fjeld is the co-owner of the The Racing Experts, LLC. He has been with TRE since 2010.
A Twin Valley, MN, native, Fjeld became a motorsports fan at just three years old (first race was the 2002 Pennsylvania 500). He worked as a contributor and writer for TRE from 2010-18. Since then, he has stepped up and covered 24 NASCAR race weekends and taken on a larger role with TRE. He became the co-owner and managing editor in 2023 and has guided the site to massive growth in that time.
Fjeld has covered a wide array of stories and moments over the years, including Kevin Harvick's final Cup Series season, the first NASCAR national series disqualification in over 50 years, Shane van Gisbergen's stunning win in Chicago and the first Cup Series race at Road America in 66 years – as well as up-and-coming drivers' stories and stories from inside the sport, like the tech it takes for Hendrick Motorsports to remain a top-tier team.
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