He just doesn’t stop winning. After yet another triumph in Friday’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series EcoSave 250 at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval, Corey Heim now sits in a league of his own with 10 wins this year, which breaks the all-time record of nine wins originally set by Greg Biffle in 2019, which Heim tied a few weeks ago at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
“Kind of out of breath just from screaming after that one. That was awesome,” Heim said after taking the win. “Man, just shows the resilience. Record-breaking 10 wins, that’s just a phenomenal accomplishment, and I couldn’t do it without these guys.”
More importantly, the win secures Heim a spot in the Championship 4 round of the Playoffs, which equals the driver’s third consecutive appearance in the championship round.
Race Results:
EcoSave 250 at the Charlotte Roval
But the path to victory on Friday at the 2.32-mile road course within the confines of the Charlotte Motor Speedway oval was no easy task. Heim, who started from the pole position, couldn’t make it through Turn 1 before disaster struck as Layne Riggs spun into him.
Wild start to today's #NASCAR Truck race at the Roval. Layne Riggs got spun, went into Corey Heim, and they went into the barrier. Then Ben Rhodes just wadded his truck up. pic.twitter.com/3qgRV4qmir
— Toby Christie (@Toby_Christie) October 3, 2025
Heim would collide with the tire barrier and sustain damage to his truck. In the process, he would lose valuable track position.
With a damaged truck, pieced together with tape, Heim would work his way methodically toward the front of the field, but it looked like the rally would stall out with a runner-up finish as 17-year-old Brent Crews, a TRICON Garage teammate, had what appeared to be enough of a lead to close out his first career win.
Then, Crews reported that his truck was running out of fuel with a few laps to go.
When the caution would come out for Toni Breidinger’s stalled out No. 5 truck on Lap 65, Crews would be called to pit road, where he would get the fuel needed to finish the race. This handed the lead to Heim, who stayed on track. And as chaos broke out in an overtime finish behind him, Heim cruised to the win ahead of Crews by 1.338 seconds.
“No, it was not easy today. I think this was probably the toughest one of the year, so far,” Heim explained. “It just shows the resilience of this TRICON team. They fixed it up so good for me after that incident on the first lap. Just kind of out of our control, I thought we were done, honestly. The right front completely folded when it hit the wall over there.”
While it was a disappointing way to see a potential first career win slip through his grasp, Crews kept his head up after an encouraging day behind the wheel of the No. 1 Toyota.
“Yeah, a lot today. I just want to thank the good lord above for keeping me safe. This has been a really fun week working with Trevor [Bayne] and Blake [Koch] at home, working on my craft. Getting better and better each day. We had a super-fast No. 1 JBL Tundra today,” Crews said. “Just grateful to be able to keep running races and learning more, and more, and more.”
Rookie of the Year contender Gio Ruggiero wrapped up a sweep of the top-three positions for TRICON Garage as he came home third behind the wheel of the No. 17 Toyota.
Spire Motorsports teammates Rajah Caruth and Connor Zilisch, who was driving the No. 7 Chevrolet Silverado this weekend, finished fourth and fifth.
Josh Bilicki rebounded from a mid-race spin to finish sixth, while Grant Enfinger, Ty Majeski, Tyler Ankrum, and Connor Mosack rounded out the top-10 finishers in the race.
Playoff contender Kaden Honeycutt had a solid day going as he was running inside the top-five during the overtime restart, but an incident with Josh Bilicki on the final lap sent him spinning out to a 14th-place finish. However, Honeycutt was able to bank 20 Stage Points in his back pocket by sweeping the win in Stages 1 and 2 during the race, which minimized the impact of the finish outside of the top-10.
Layne Riggs, who came into the day as the second-favorite to win the 2025 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship behind Heim, suffered major damage in the opening lap crash, which broke the swaybar on his No. 34 Front Row Motorsports Ford F-150. Riggs struggled the rest of the day, and on the final restart of the race, he slowed from a top-10 running spot as his truck lost power, and would finish 21st.
Riggs was very frustrated with Grant Enfinger, who got into him to trigger the opening-lap incident between Riggs and Heim.
“We just got wrecked by [Enfinger]. I don’t really understand what his thought process is,” Riggs said. “People say you’re supposed to take advice from the veterans and learn from them how to race, and they race the worst out of anybody. That’s twice this year we’ve gotten wrecked by the 9 truck – at Watkins Glen and here, both road courses, two separate incidents, two blatantly wrong on his part. We drug a swaybar arm off after that contact and just had a terrible handling truck the rest of the day.”
Riggs continued, “I have a lot of choice words for how the initial start played out. I’m really disappointed in the amount of talent that took.”
Riggs, who came into the day 22 points above the Playoff cutline, now sits one point below the cutoff with two races remaining in the Round of 8 of the Playoffs.
Next up for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series is the Love’s RV Stop 225 at Talladega Superspeedway on Friday, October 17. That race will be televised on FS1 beginning at 4:00 PM ET. The NASCAR Radio Network and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio will carry the radio broadcast of that event.
