By Mordecai Peterson-Stevens

NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series

Looking Ahead – Texas Storylines and Insights:

·       Next weekend will be the 51st running of a NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race at Texas Motor Speedway (1997-2025) – the most races of any track in the series.

·       Texas Motor Speedway will be the first Truck Series race since the Triple Truck Challenge races. This year’s winners were Daniel Hemric (Martinsville, $50k), Chandler Smith (Bristol, $50k) and Tyler Ankrum (Rockingham, $50k).

·       Texas Motor Speedway is the third of five 1.5-mile tracks on the 2025 CRAFTSMAN Truck Series schedule – Homestead, Las Vegas, Texas, Kansas and Charlotte.

·       There have been five different winners in the last five CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races at Texas Motor Speedway.

·       Six drivers have earned their first career CRAFTSMAN Truck Series win at Texas, the most recent was Carson Hocevar (April 1, 2023).

·       Two former CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Texas Motor Speedway winners are running fulltime this season – Matt Crafton (two wins: 2014, 2015) and Stewart Friesen (2022).

·       Corey Heim leads all active Truck Series drivers in average finishing position at Texas Motor Speedway with a 5.3 in three starts but has yet to win at the track. His best finish at Texas is second in 2024.

·       Corey Heim leads the Truck Series driver standings following Rockingham by 22 points over Chandler Smith in second and up 62 points on Tyler Ankrum in third. Heim has held the points lead following the last four races.

·       Corey Heim has led 346 laps this season, almost twice as much as the next driver (Chandler Smith-187). Heim is the only driver to lead laps in all seven Truck Series races this season.

·       A total of 10 drivers have won stages in the Truck Series in 2025, led by Corey Heim with four stage wins.

·       Only one driver has finished every lap of the seven Truck Series races this season (100% laps completed): Daniel Hemric.

·       Tyler Ankrum is on a streak of six top-10 finishes, including the last four being top fives and his win at Rockingham.

·       Four Truck Series drivers are on streaks of top-10 finishes of three or more – T. Ankrum (6), C. Heim (5), J. Garcia (4) and R. Caruth (3).

·       Prior to his 13th at Rockingham (seventh race of 2025), Chandler Smith finished inside the top-10 in each of the first six races.

·       The 105 lead changes through the first seven races of the 2025 CRAFTSMAN Truck Series season, are a new series-most; previous record was 95 in 2022.

COURTESY NASCAR COMMUNICATIONS