12/9/2025, 9:07:24 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Kris Wright has signed a deal that will see him competing full-time in 2026, driving the No. 81 McAnally-Hilgemann (MHR) Racing Chevrolet.
Wright parted ways with Our Motorsports in the middle of the 2025 NASCAR Xfinity Series season, and has since made appearances in a handful of Truck and ARCA races.
He has 49 starts in the NCTS, and both of his 2025 starts came with MHR. He finished 26th ...Keep reading
12/8/2025, 4:38:32 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Frankie Muniz, who recently turned 40, will continue to compete full-time in the NASCAR Truck Series, again driving the No. 33 Ford for Team Reaume.
Muniz revealed the news in a special announcement in New York City, which included some racing plans outside of NASCAR as well.
Muniz will also compete full-time in the SRO GT4 America championship, driving a Mustang GT4 for Techsport Racing ...Keep reading
12/5/2025, 3:52:45 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Kaden Honeycutt will have some big shoes to fill in 2026 as he takes over the wheel of the No. 11 TRICON Garage Toyota, which Corey Heim drove to a historic title this past year.
In 2025, Heim won 4x as many races as his closest competition, secured nearly twice as many top fives, led 3x as many laps led, and ended the year with an average finish more than four places better than any other ...Keep reading
12/4/2025, 7:20:18 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
As previously announced, Ram is returning to the NASCAR Truck Series for the first time in over a decade, and they will do so with five entries fielded by Kaulig Racing.
Kaulig is shutting down their NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts program (formerly Xfinity Series) in order to accommodate this massive undertaking in the Truck Series. The team will continue to operate a Chevy-backed team at the Cup ...Keep reading
11/20/2025, 9:34:01 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Christian Eckes, 25, will compete full-time in the NASCAR Truck Series in 2026, reuniting with McAnally-Hilgemann Racing (MHR) after a year apart.
Eckes drove for McAnally-Hilgemann in both 2023 and 2024, but moved up to the NASCAR Xfinity Series in 2025 with Kaulig Racing. Eckes ended the year 13th in the championship standings with six top fives and 15 top tens, but next year will see him ...Keep reading
11/19/2025, 9:57:14 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Tyler Reif, who is just 18 years old, has signed a deal to run the majority of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series schedule in 2026. He will drive the No. 42 Niece Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado. He made his Truck debut with Niece at the Phoenix finale, earning a top ten finish in his first outing.
"I’m so thankful to everyone at Niece Motorsports for this opportunity to race more for them ...Keep reading
11/17/2025, 6:55:32 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Kaulig Racing is pausing its NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts team in order to venture into the NASCAR Truck Series as the factory team for Ram's re-entry into the sport.
The team previously announced several full-time drivers, including Brenden Queen, Daniel Dye, and Justin Haley. On Monday, the team confirmed plans to launch an all-star truck, which they've described as the 'Free Agent ...Keep reading
11/10/2025, 7:37:47 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Young's Motorsports signed Ryan Ellis to drive the No. 02 Chevrolet for the team in the 2026 NASCAR O'Reilly Auto Parts season (rebranded Xfinity Series).
The team already runs the No. 42 car full-time as well, with Leland Honeyman driving the car in 2024 before being replaced by Anthony Alfredo in 2025.
Ellis was driving the No. 71 this past season for DGM Racing, ending the year 28th ...Keep reading
11/1/2025, 7:37:06 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Corey Heim simply obliterated the competition in 2025. He won 4x as many races as his closest competition, scored nearly twice as many top fives, led 3x as many laps led, and ended the year with an average finish more than four places better than any other full-time driver.
To cap it all off, Heim drove from tenth to first in two overtime restarts (with four fresh tires), making up most of the ...Keep reading
11/1/2025, 4:37:02 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Corey Heim simply obliterated the competition in 2025. He won 4x as many races as his closest competition, scored nearly twice as many top fives, led 3x as many laps led, and ended the year with an average finish more than four places better than any other full-time driver.
To cap it all off, Heim drove from tenth to first in two overtime restarts (with four fresh tires), making up most of the ...Keep reading
11/1/2025, 4:33:07 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
After years of Cup drivers ransacking the lower divisions for race wins and championships, NASCAR introduced a policy limiting Cup drivers to a maximum of five races in Xfinity and five in Trucks, while also forbidding drivers from racing for multiple championships.
On Saturday, NASCAR revealed that they will actually double the number of races from five to ten for the 2026 NASCAR O'Reilly Auto ...Keep reading
11/1/2025, 6:43:12 AMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Ray Heim was losing his figurative s--t watching the NASCAR Truck Series Championship Race from the infield but his son remained resolute through it all.
The Tricon Garage No. 11 team was not going to lose this race and championship on a caution with five laps to go because Connor Mosack did not pit to address his tire rub. They were not going to lose it to those who took two tires when Scott ...Keep reading
11/1/2025, 2:13:15 AMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Corey Heim entered this race as the overwhelming favorite for the title, but the format meant he had to perform at Phoenix or face losing the title despite a historic season.
He won both stages and led the most laps, but when the race fell into double overtime, he had to fight with everything he had to win the title. Coming from tenth on a two-to-go restart, he drove up to second with a ...Keep reading
10/31/2025, 8:47:49 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
The final qualifying session of the 2025 NASCAR Truck season is complete, and the lineup is set for Friday night's title-decider at Phoenix Raceway.
Earlier in the day, NASCAR discovered a panel that was not permitted on the No. 34 Front Row Motorsports Ford of Layne Riggs, resulting in a crew chief ejection, being sent to the rear of the field, and having to now serve a drive-through penalty ...Keep reading
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10/31/2025, 8:17:27 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Kaden Honeycutt is not the defending champion like Ty Majeski, nor has he dominated the entire year like Corey Heim, or spent several years racing Trucks full-time like Tyler Ankrum.
Instead, Honeycutt is in his first full-time year of competition and he has never even won a NASCAR Truck race before. To make his situation even more unique, the 22-year-old is ending the year with a different ...Keep reading
10/31/2025, 7:32:18 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
This year, no Truck driver even comes close to Corey Heim. He has won eleven of 24 races, a series record. He faces three title rivals in the Championship 4 who have combined to win just one race this year — and eight total if you add up their whole careers.
Heim's average finish of 5.2 is followed by Ty Majeski's 10.2, Tyler Ankrums 10.7, and Kaden Honeycutt's 13.2 over the course of the ...Keep reading
10/31/2025, 5:46:36 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
While his own title hopes ended in a brutal tiebreaker last weekend, Layne Riggs is still fighting for the owner's championship on behalf of Front Row Motorsports at the Phoenix Raceway finale.
NASCAR found that the No. 34 FRM Ford had "added a panel to the oil that closes off the area between it and the floorboard, which is not permitted."
As a result, Riggs will start from the rear of the ...Keep reading
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10/29/2025, 4:43:40 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Kaulig Racing, which recently revealed that they are pausing their NASCAR Xfinity Series efforts for the time being, plan to operate five NASCAR Trucks next year as the factory partner of Ram in its return to the sport.
Newly crowned ARCA champion Brenden Queen was already announced as the team's first full-time driver for 2026, but they've now revealed two more on Wednesday.
Daniel Dye, who ...Keep reading
10/29/2025, 1:48:35 AMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Kevin Harvick, the 2014 NASCAR Cup Series champion, and current NASCAR on FOX television analyst did not mince words about this weekend’s championship races.
He said it would be ‘embarrassing’ if Corey Heim and Connor Zilisch did not win the Truck Series and Xfinity Series championships, respectively.
“Here’s what I think is interesting,” Harvick said on Kevin Harvick’s Happy ...Keep reading
10/28/2025, 12:38:51 AMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
27-year-old Stefan Parsons has secured a ride for the 2025 NASCAR Truck Series finale at Phoenix Raceway, piloting the No. 7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet. Transportation Charter Services will back the effort. He's already worked with Spire in the role of spotter, but never as a driver.
Parsons comes from a rich racing family as the son of former Cup Series race winner Phil and the nephew of ...Keep reading
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10/25/2025, 4:27:46 AMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
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And with that, the stage is set for a NASCAR Truck Series championship race that wouldn’t feel right being won by anyone other then Heim, crew chief Scott Zipadelli and the Tricon Garage No. 11 team after winning for a record setting 11th time this season.
And yet, there are three other contenders, including the one that won last year that ...Keep reading
10/25/2025, 1:16:40 AMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Just one point separated four drivers in Martinsville's Round of 8 elimination race on Saturday, with Kaden Honeycutt besting Layne Riggs for the final transfer spot on a tiebreaker. Meanwhile, Corey Heim, who was already locked in, secured yet another victory in the most dominant Truck season we've ever seen.
Meet the four drivers who will face off for the 2025 championship next weekend at ...Keep reading
10/25/2025, 12:43:41 AMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
It's hard to bet against Corey Heim for the 2025 NASCAR Truck Series title, as the Tricon driver will enter the finale with a historic eleven victories after 24 races this year. He earned yet another win at Martinsville, but all eyes were on the battle to make the Championship 4.
"I don't want to jump to any conclusions yet," said Heim about being the title favorite. "We got a big race next ...Keep reading
10/18/2025, 7:21:44 AMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
In a straight up race, it didn’t seem like anyone had the same speed as Tricon Garage but the rest of the field also made it really easy for Gio Ruggiero and Corey Heim to decide the race amongst themselves regardless.
Ruggiero, a Truck Series rookie, led the most laps from the pole but lost the lead on a restart with 15 laps to go as Ben Rhodes took the lead with a push from ThorSport Racing ...Keep reading
10/18/2025, 1:43:45 AMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Everyone still eligible for the Truck Series championship knows their marching orders in advance of the penultimate race of the season in one week at Martinsville following a predictably consequential race at Talladega.
Corey Heim Advanced with Roval winRajah Caruth +14Tyler Ankrum +8Kaden Honeycutt +5---Ty Majeski -5Layne Riggs -6Daniel Hemric -26Grant Enfinger -34
The math is really ...Keep reading
10/17/2025, 10:45:40 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Gio Ruggiero won Friday's NASCAR Truck race at Talladega Superspeedway, beating TRICON teammate Corey Heim by just 0.059s. This is the 19-year-old's first career win, coming in his 23rd career start.
"Super thankful for all the guys on this No. 17 truck," said Ruggiero. "They worked their ass off, and they definitely brought the best piece today. We showed it in qualifying and there throughout ...Keep reading
10/16/2025, 3:05:33 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Casey Mears' race to reach some career start milestones continues. The veteran driver made a surprise return to the NASCAR Cup Series this year, making a handful of starts in the No. 66 car as he tries to reach 500 starts in the top level of the sport.
He will make his 492nd career Cup start this weekend at Talladega, and while he won't reach it in 2025, there is another milestone he intends to ...Keep reading
10/16/2025, 2:50:01 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Newly crowned ARCA Menards Series champion Brenden 'Butterbean' Queen will be part of Kaulig Racing's brand new NASCAR Truck Series effort and Ram's highly anticipated return to the sport.
Kaulig is expected to field up to five trucks in 2026 with support from the Stellantis brand, and Queen has been confirmed as the team's first driver.
“A big thanks to Matt Kaulig, Chris Rice, RAM, and ...Keep reading
10/13/2025, 4:57:01 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
On August 28th, actor-turned-racer Frankie Muniz announced that he had suffered a broken wrist in a fall from a ladder at his home.
The 39-year-old 'Malcolm in the Middle' star was sidelined for several weeks, missing the last four NASCAR Truck races. Mason Maggio and Tyler Tomassi have piloted the No. 33 Reaume Brothers Racing Ford in his absence.
However, Muniz is officially back and ...Keep reading
10/11/2025, 3:34:49 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Mike Greenwell, known as 'The Gator,' spent his entire Major League Baseball career with the Boston Red Sox, playing for the historic team from 1985 to 1996. Sadly, he died earlier this week after being diagnosed with medullary thyroid cancer in the summer.
Representing the No. 39, he played as a left-fielder for the Red Sox, ending his 12 seasons at the famed organization with a .303 batting ...Keep reading
10/8/2025, 4:16:40 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Tyler Reif, 18, will drive the No. 41 Niece Motorsports Chevrolet Silverado in his NASCAR Truck Series debut later this month. Reif will compete in the season finale at Phoenix Raceway on October 31st.
Phoenix is a special track for the teenager, as he earned his one and only ARCA victory at the Arizona track. During the 2023 season, he made his ARCA debut at the age of 15 and earned a shock ...Keep reading
10/7/2025, 12:38:29 AMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
49-year-old J.J. Yeley will drive the No. 7 Chevrolet Silverado for Spire Motorsports later this month at Talladega Superspeedway, competing in the NASCAR Truck Series.
Yeley is a veteran journeyman driver with decades of experience. He made his Cup debut in 2004, and has since started 394 races. It's a similar situation in the Xfinity Series, also making his debut in 2004 and going on to start ...Keep reading
10/6/2025, 10:41:24 AMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
With his third career victory at the Chicago Street Course in 2025, Shane van Gisbergen became the winningest foreign-born driver in the history of the NASCAR Cup Series.
Of course, NASCAR is a deeply American form of auto racing, so non-Americans winning isn't exactly commonplace. Until the top level of the sport raced in Mexico City in 2025, there hadn't been a points-paying Cup race outside ...Keep reading
10/4/2025, 6:05:25 AMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
As it was seemingly always going to be, Corey Heim is locked into the NASCAR Truck Series final four while everyone else will have to figuratively survive the wildest possible wild card round to challenge him there.
In the process, Heim also made history, becoming the first driver to win 10 times in the third highest level of the discipline, breaking a tie he shared very briefly with 1999’s ...Keep reading
10/3/2025, 10:38:43 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Corey Heim now holds the record for the most wins in a single NASCAR Truck Series, earning his tenth win of the 2025 season at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval.
The result was an improbable yet incisive drive through the field after crashing into the tire barrier in Turn 1. He sustained left-front damage, but he managed to drive back to the front, passing every truck in his wounded No. 11 ...Keep reading
10/3/2025, 8:14:35 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Corey Heim is the undisputed favorite for the 2025 NASCAR Truck Series title. He has won nine races in a dominant season for the No. 11 Toyota, and those bonus points just became extremely valuable after suffering damage in a bizarre crash at the start of Friday's NCTS race.
Heim was on pole position at the Charlotte Roval with primary title rival Layne Riggs right beside him. Another playoff ...Keep reading
10/2/2025, 5:05:30 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Longtime NASCAR crew chief and competition executive Kevin Kidd has been named the North American Motorsports Competition Director for Stellantis.
In this role, Kidd will oversee all motorsport activities in both the NASCAR Truck Series and NHRA for the RAM and Dodge brands. Dodge competes in NHRA with Tony Stewart Racing and will field five trucks with Kaulig Racing next season.
“The ...Keep reading
9/30/2025, 9:04:08 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
The Charlotte Motor Speedway ROVAL will host the Round of 12 elimination race for the Cup and Xfinity Series this weekend, while beginning the Round of 8 for Trucks.
37 Cup cars have entered the final road course race of the year with one part-time entry -- the No. 66 Garage 66 Ford with driver Josh Bilicki.
42 cars have entered the Xfinity race, which means four will go home as the ...Keep reading
9/24/2025, 12:11:01 AMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Corey Lajoie says he is starting to consider what life after active competition in NASCAR looks like for him.
The comments were made on Tuesday in the latest episode of the Stacking Pennies podcast he co-hosts with pit crew veteran Ryan Flores.
Lajoie, the son of two-time Busch Series champion Randy, has pursued his own racing career for much of the past decade-plus and raced in the Cup ...Keep reading
9/23/2025, 7:52:22 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
For the first time since a debilitating crash in a Big Block Dirt Modified at Autodrome Drummond in July, Stewart Friesen returned to a NASCAR Truck Series race on Saturday at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
Friesen has been sidelined for the past two months with a shattered pelvis, a fractured right leg (tibia and fibula), a fractured C7 vertebra and a fractured left hip that required plates ...Keep reading
9/21/2025, 5:33:40 AMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Jayson Alexander, 23, was driving the No. 02 Young's Motorsports Chevrolet in Saturday's NASCAR Truck Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
An active member of the North Carolina Army National Guard, Alexander was making his fourth career start in the Truck Series. After starting 31st, his race came to an abrupt end just 30 laps into the event.
Playoff drivers Rajah Caruth and ...Keep reading
9/20/2025, 7:56:58 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
The first round of the NASCAR Truck Series Playoffs featured its first shock elimination as third-seeded Chandler Smith was eliminated on Saturday afternoon at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
Smith opened this round with finishes of 30th and 30th due to a crash and electrical control unit issue respectively and not even a second place in Loudon was enough to offset the damage done.
The Front ...Keep reading
9/20/2025, 6:54:25 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Corey Heim remains unstoppable in the NASCAR Truck Series, sweeping the stages and winning at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. This marks the 20th win of Heim's career and his ninth of the 2025 season, which matches the all-time season win record set by Greg Biffle back in 1999.
"It's a dream come true to be able to race with these guys (TRICON)," said Heim. "It seems like everywhere we go this ...Keep reading
9/16/2025, 9:01:01 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Layne Riggs says there was an ‘aha’ moment where he fully made the transition form champion Late Model driver to fully comfortable NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series contender and that occurred at Gateway last summer.
“That was the click race,” Riggs told Motorsport.com over the phone on Tuesday. “I was running 15th all day and I didn’t know what I was supposed to do to make it turn the ...Keep reading
9/12/2025, 4:02:04 AMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
With the exception of Chandler Smith and Jake Garcia, things have largely followed the script in the NASCAR Truck Series Playoffs as the first two races at Darlington and Bristol have been won by Corey Heim and Layne Riggs respectively.
There is a bit of a season-long gap between them, but the Tricon Garage No. 11 and the Front Row Motorsports No. 34 are the 1a and 1b of the season so far and ...Keep reading
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9/12/2025, 2:10:39 AMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Not even an early spin could deny Layne Riggs as he charged to the win in Thursday night's NASCAR Truck race at Bristol Motor Speedway. This is Riggs' fifth career win and his third of the 2025 season.
“You don't get two mulligans in the playoffs and I've had two," said Riggs, who is now locked into the Round of 8 as he hunts the 2025 title with Front Row Motorsports. "I'm not sure what ...Keep reading
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9/11/2025, 1:12:44 AMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Statistically speaking, the most successful Super Late Model driver in the country is set to make his NASCAR debut in the Craftsman Truck Series on Thursday night at Bristol and it might not be his last.
Cole Butcher is driving the Halmar Friesen No. 62 with veteran crew chief Bruce Cook calling the shots. However, also on the pit box will be Bond Suss, the Toyota Racing pavement development ...Keep reading
8/30/2025, 9:41:27 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Playoffs opened with yet another victory by championship favorites Corey Heim and the Tricon Garage No. 11 on Saturday at Darlington while other favorites suffered through a variety of attrition along the way.
Chandler Smith entered as the third seed, 16 points above the cutline, but hit the wall racing for the lead in the opening stages. His truck was broken ...Keep reading
8/30/2025, 8:13:34 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
Timmy Hill has been racing at the national level of NASCAR since 2011, and he's always been a driver who tries to do a lot with very little resources.
Since then, he has started 143 Cup, 243 Xfinity, and 117 Truck races. He currently competes as a driver/owner with Hill Motorsports, a race team that consists of the following full-time employees: Terry Elmore (crew chief), 'Big Jim' Marks, and ...Keep reading
8/30/2025, 6:19:18 PMMotorsport.com — NASCAR Truck (News)
It was 'Heim Time' once again as the NASCAR Truck Playoffs began at Darlington. Earning his eighth win of the 2025 season, Corey Heim has already guaranteed his advancement into the next round.
Heim has now won four of the last five Truck races on the schedule, and the TRICON driver has already reached 19 career victories.
"I felt like the No. 34 [Riggs] and the No. 38 [Smith] were really ...Keep reading