Corey Heim ties historic NASCAR Truck record with Loudon win

Corey Heim stays unstoppable within the NASCAR Truck Sequence, sweeping the phases and profitable at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. This marks the twentieth win of Heim’s profession and his ninth of the 2025 season, which matches the all-time season win report set by Greg Biffle again in 1999.

“It is a dream come true to have the ability to race with these guys (TRICON),” mentioned Heim. “It looks like in all places we go this 12 months, we’re a contender or we win. Cannot say sufficient about these guys and yeah, preserve it going. We obtained 4 extra races left and I wish to break that report. Shoutout to Greg Biffle — he is an incredible dude, and I am honored to have the ability to compete with that. Big thanks to TRICON Storage … dream 12 months for me in my profession. We’re gonna preserve it going.”

NHMS additionally marked the primary spherical of eliminations within the NASCAR Truck playoffs with each Chandler Smith and Jake Garcia falling out of title rivalry. It is particularly painful for Smith, who ran sturdy on Saturday and completed second to Heim.

Behind Heim and Smith, Layne Riggs completed third, Gio Ruggiero fourth, and Ty Majeski fifth. Grant Enfinger, Kaden Honeycutt, Corey LaJoie, Christian Eckes, and Rajah Caruth stuffed out the rest of the highest ten.

Phases 1 and a couple of

Jayson Alexander, Younger’s Motorsports Chevrolet

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The race noticed an unusually excessive variety of incidents for New Hampshire, and it did not take lengthy for chaos to interrupt out. Connor Mosack, Brent Crews, and Tanner Grey all crashed within the first nook on the opening lap.

Later, Jayson Alexander and Caleb Costner collided, triggering one other multi-truck crash that even collected playoff driver Daniel Hemric. Alexander was irate on the radio, screaming” “Are you severe, dude! What f*** was that?”

The cautions stored coming, with Christian Eckes and Conner Jones tangling quickly after the restart. 

And whereas all this was taking place, Heim remained firmly in charge of the race, profitable Stage 1 underneath warning after a mechanical failure despatched Derek White careening into the skin wall.

Firstly of Stage 2, Heim was outdoors the highest ten as a number of vans stayed out, led by Andres Perez who was out entrance for the primary time in his profession.

Ruggiero continually harassed him for the lead, however he could not fairly full the go. Patrick Emerling crashed with just some laps to go, organising  a dash to the end for Stage 2. At this level, Heim had made his manner again as much as fourth.

Caruth, who entered this race on the playoff bubble, stayed out in an aggressive technique to attempt to snag some stage factors. He restarted with the lead, however fell to seventh, which was nonetheless sufficient to web 4 worthwhile factors.

Heim went on to win the stage, including one other playoff level to his spectacular margin.

Stage 3

Harm to Matt Crafton, ThorSport Racing

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Whereas there was no drama up entrance, the sphere stored the chaos coming as Tyler Tomassi crashed.

Quickly after, there was a significant incident that noticed Toni Breidinger slam the skin wall head-on. Ben Rhodes and Matt Crafton have been additionally concerned with each drivers sustaining important harm. All drivers have been checked and launched from the infield care middle.

On the sharp finish of the sphere, Smith obtained second again on the ultimate restart, however he could not run down Heim. The margin obtained underneath a second as they minimize by means of slower visitors, but it surely nonetheless wasn’t sufficient as Heim captured the checkered flag over the Entrance Row Motorsports driver.

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