Editor’s note: This is a roundup in which we review the 2025 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season. Check out our index of 2025 driver recaps.
2025 Craftsman Truck Series Champion: Corey Heim
2025 Regular Season Champion: Corey Heim
Full-time winners: 8 (Corey Heim, 12; Layne Riggs, 3; Chandler Smith, 2; Tyler Ankrum, 1; Rajah Caruth, 1; Daniel Hemric, 1; Giovanni Ruggiero, 1; Stewart Friesen, 1)
Wins by team: Tricon Garage, 13; Front Row Motorsports, 5; Spire Motorsports, 4; McAnally-Hilgemann Racing, 2; Halmar Friesen Racing, 1
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How 2025 ended: A 2025 campaign defined by utter dominance concluded electrically for Corey Heim and the No. 11 Tricon Garage team during the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Championship at Phoenix Raceway. In what has a claim to be the clutchest NASCAR Overtime restart ever, the Marietta, Georgia, native vaulted from 10th to second in one fell swoop, erasing a pit-road deficit that resulted from a four-tire call. Out-maneuvering 2024 champion Ty Majeski followed, and just like that, Heim cashed in with win No. 12 and his first title triumph. Championship near-misses in years prior (Heim finished third and runner-up in the title standings in 2023 and 2024, respectively) were avenged, and history was achieved; Heim’s 12 wins are the most ever in a single season, and, at 23 years old, now coincidentally has 23 Truck Series wins to his ledger, already the sixth-most all-time. Poetry tends to rhyme, and, well, it was Heim’s time.
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Best race: After matching Greg Biffle for the most wins in a single season via his ninth victory of 2025 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in September, the next logical step was for Heim to surpass that mark. He did so the very next race. After a first-lap wreck brought calamity, Heim stayed level, rallied and wheeled his heavily-taped No. 11 machine to Victory Lane at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval after staying out during a critical overtime restart. History was now his, and, as we’d see the rest of the way, even more history was to be etched into the Truck Series annals for good.
Other season highlights: While Heim was 2025’s focal point, he wasn’t the only season highlight. Despite not making the Championship 4, Layne Riggs’ sophomore campaign was a sound one, tallying career highs in wins (three), top fives (13) and top-10 finishes (16). 19-year-old rookie Gio Ruggiero scooped up his first career national series win following an overtime finish at Talladega Superspeedway. In its national series return for the first time since 2013, Rockingham Speedway saw Tyler Ankrum snap a 130-race winless streak, the longest drought broken in Truck Series history. Then there was Lime Rock Park, with the Connecticut road course hosting its first national series race. 2025 definitely lived up to the billing.
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Stat to know: Heim has led in 26 consecutive races dating back to 2024, the longest streak all time. Heim led 1,625 circuits in 2025, lapping the field (no pun intended), with the next closest competitor being 1,128 legs behind the mark (Layne Riggs, 497). With this dominance, Heim already ranks sixth all-time in Truck Series laps led (2,989).
Quotable: “It’s such a team effort at the end of the day. Like, those guys have consistently set me up with winning equipment, and Scott (Zipadelli, No. 11 crew chief), being the captain of the team, he’s been the guy to keep that whole crew together since 2023. We’ve had literally every single person other than pit crew together on that 11 crew from the middle of 2023, so it’s obviously guys that want to work for him. It’s really a big family, honestly. It feels like a family, and I want it to be remembered that way.” — Corey Heim on No. 11 team’s accomplishments.
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Looking ahead: Excitement is in the air for 2026. A fourth manufacturer — Ram — will enter the Truck Series fray with Kaulig Racing next season, with five trucks carrying the new banner. In addition to Chicagoland Speedway returning, new track venues, including St. Petersburg and Naval Base Coronado, will be on the schedule. And while the Truck Series roster is nowhere near finalized (Heim included), whatever is solidified will surely bring variability and competition that fans will be eager to watch.
