Editor’s Note: This is a roundup in which we review the 2025 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season. Consult 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)
Team wins: Tricon Garage, 13; Motorsports ranked first, 5; Spire Motorsports, 4; McAnally-Hilgemann Racing, 2; Halmar Friesen Racing, 1
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How 2025 ended: A 2025 campaign defined by total domination concluded electrically for Corey Heim and the No. 11 Tricon Garage team in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship at Phoenix Raceway. In what claims to be the NASCAR’s Best Overtime Restart Everthe Marietta, Ga. native went from 10th to second in one fell swoop, erasing a pit road deficit resulting from a four-tire call. 2024 champion Ty Majeski followed, and just like that, Heim cashed in with victory No. 12 and his first title triumph. The championship near misses of previous years (Heim finished third and second in the title standings in 2023 and 2024, respectively) were avenged and history was accomplished; Heim’s 12 victories are the most important Never in a single season and, at age 23, now coincidentally has 23 Truck Series wins on his record, already the sixth-most all-time. Poetry tends to rhyme and, well, those were Heim’s days.
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Best race: After tying Greg Biffle for the most wins in a single season via his ninth victory in 2025 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway In September, the next logical step was for Heim to surpass that mark. He did it in the next race. After a first-lap disaster brought calamity, Heim stayed level, rallied and wheeled his heavily taped No. 11 machine up Victory Lane at Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval after staying sidelined during a critical restart in overtime. The story was now his and, as we will see along the way, even more history was to be etched for good in the annals of the Truck Series.
Other highlights of the season: Even though Heim was the focal point of 2025, he wasn’t the only highlight of the season. Despite not reaching Championship 4, Layne Riggs’ sophomore campaign was strong, achieving career highs in wins (three), top fives (13), and top 10s (16). 19-year-old rookie Gio Ruggiero earned his first career National Series win after overtime at Talladega Superspeedway. In its national series returns for the first time since 2013, Rockingham Motor Speedway saw Tyler Ankrum end a 130-race winless streak, the longest drought broken in Truck Series history. Then there was Lime Rock Parkthe Connecticut road course hosting its first national series race. 2025 definitely lived up to its expectations.
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Stat to know: Heim has led 26 consecutive races dating back to 2024, the longest streak ever. Heim directed 1,625 home runs in 2025circling the field (no pun intended), with the nearest competitor 1,128 legs behind the mark (Layne Riggs, 497). With this domination, Heim already ranks sixth of all time in the Truck Series (2,989).
Quotable: “It’s such a team effort at the end of the day. These guys have consistently set me up with winning equipment, and Scott (Zipadelli, No. 11 crew chief), as team captain, he’s been the person that’s kept this whole team together since 2023. We’ve had literally every person other than the pit crew together on this 11th team since the middle of 2023, so these are obviously the guys that want to work for him. It’s really a Honestly, it’s a big family I feel like a family and I want to be remembered that way —. Corey Heim on the No. 11 team’s accomplishments.
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Looking to the future: Enthusiasm 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 the return of Chicagoland Speedway, new track venues including St. Petersburg and the Coronado Naval Basewill be on the program. And while the Truck Series roster is far from finalized (Heim included), whatever is solidified will surely bring variability and competition that fans will be excited to watch.
