Corey Heim merely obliterated the competitors in 2025. He received 4x as many races as his closest competitors, scored almost twice as many high fives, led 3x as many laps led, and ended the 12 months with a median end greater than 4 locations higher than some other full-time driver.
To cap all of it off, Heim drove from tenth to first in two extra time restarts (with 4 recent tires), making up a lot of the floor with a single seven-wide go in an unimaginable transfer by NASCAR’s latest champ.
The place does Heim’s season rank within the 30-year historical past of the NASCAR Truck Collection? Unsurprisingly, it is the most effective ever.
Corey Heim, TRICON Storage Toyota
Photograph by: Christian Petersen / Getty Photographs
New file 12 wins — Beats 1999
Heim received 12 of 25 races this 12 months, so almost half the season. It is the one time a driver has ever reached double digits in race wins on the Truck stage, dethroning the 1999 file set by Greg Biffle, who received 9 races. This included the whole lot from intermediate tracks to highway programs, brief tracks, and several other highway programs.
New file 19 high fives — Beats 1996
Heim additionally collected 19 high fives through the 2025 season, which is one more file. Beforehand, the very best was 18 high fives by Ron Hornaday and Jack Sprague, who each did it through the second season of the NASCAR Truck Collection in 1996. Whereas your entire discipline wasn’t as shut again then, these two drivers did attain 18 with a 24-race season, so to their credit score, they could have matched Heim in the event that they too had 25 occasions.
21 high tens — Not unprecedented
The one class the place he is not rewriting historical past is high tens. Whereas 21 high tens is spectacular, it is not history-making. Simply final 12 months, Christian Eckes reached 22, and we have seen a number of drivers get greater than that through the years. There have been 4 races the place Heim did not get a high ten: Atlanta, North Wilkesboro, Michigan, and Pocono. In all of them, he ran up entrance in some unspecified time in the future through the race.
New file: 1,627 laps led — Beats 1996
Once more going again to 1996 for a file now destroyed by Heim. The TRICON driver led 1,627 laps, which is probably the most ever seen in a single season of Truck Collection competitors. The file was beforehand held by Mike Skinner, who led 1,533 laps led that 12 months (and nonetheless solely completed third in factors). Man, that 12 months was a season of a giants.
Common end — Finest since 1996
Welcome again to 1996 as soon as once more, however this time, it is a file Heim could not fairly eclipse. His common end of 5.0 is unimaginable, and the very best the game has seen in many years. Nonetheless, it is not the very best, interval. It’s important to go all the best way again to 1996 for when a driver ducked under 5.0 over the course of a single season, and that was Hornaday with a median end of 4.5 on his approach to securing the title.
23 lead lap finishes — Finest since 2010
One other class some are overlooking are lead lap finishes. Exterior of Atlanta the place he was three laps down and Rockingham the place he was one lap down, Heim has managed to complete on the lead lap in each different race this 12 months. 23 out of 25 is the very best we have seen since Johnny Sauter, 15 years in the past.
New file: Main no less than one lap in each race — first time ever
Maybe Heim’s most spectacular statistic from the 2025 season. He managed to guide a lap in each single race this season, which is a feat by no means executed earlier than — however not simply in Vehicles. No driver within the historical past of NASCAR’s three nationwide divisions of the game has executed that.
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