With two of the strongest drivers in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series breathing down his neck, Rajah Caruth was able to park his No. 71 Chevrolet Silverado in Victory Lane following Friday’s Rackley Roofing 200 at Nashville Superspeedway.
Caruth was able to maintain a minuscule lead over a rapidly closing Corey Heim and Layne Riggs in the final laps of Friday’s 150-lap contest, collecting his second victory in the NASCAR Truck Series, and his first since his breakout victory last March at Las Vegas.
The native of Washington, D.C., was able to take advantage of clean air and incredible track position, using his pit crew to get the lead from Heim, a four-time winner in the first 12 events of the season, with 50 laps remaining in the event.
Luckily for Caruth, that lead change – the seventh of the evening – was the final one, as the Spire Motorsports driver was able to make all of the right moves in defense of the TRICON Garage driver, who led 58 laps throughout Friday’s contest – a close second to Caruth’s 61 laps led.
RACE RESULTS: Rackley Roofing 200 at Nashville Superspeedway
“I didn’t expect that at all,” Caruth told FOX Sports after the race. “Those guys were breathing down my neck the whole run. My pit crew won that race. Yeah, they won that race for us got us off pit road [with the lead] twice.”
For Caruth, his race-winning pit crew, which includes members Cody French, Dawson Backus, Josh Dale, Jarius Morehead, and Zico Pasut, is a combination of NASCAR Cup Series pit crews for HYAK Motorsports (Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.) and Spire Motorsports (Carson Hocevar).
“I was just asking myself, ‘How bad do you want it?” Caruth added. “I don’t know, I just try my bes,t and we had clean air and their stuff was better, but I just did my best. That was it.”
The victory marks the ninth win in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series for Spire Motorsports, with Caruth becoming just the third driver to earn multiple victories for the organization in the NASCAR Truck Series, joining Kyle Larson and Kyle Busch.
Corey Heim finished in the runner-up position, coming up just over a half-second short of capturing the victory. The Marietta, Georgia-native will now move on to the NASCAR Cup Series, where he’ll drive the No. 67 Toyota Camry XSE for 23XI Racing in Sunday’s Cracker Barrel 400.
Layne Riggs would have to settle for third on the evening, collecting his third straight top-five result in the NASCAR Truck Series and his fifth of the 2025 season. Martinsville race-winner Daniel Hemric collected another top-five in fourth, while Corey Day collected his first top-five in fifth.
Kaden Honeycutt ended up sixth, while Chandler Smith recovered from some mid-race damage to finish in seventh. Ty Majeski was eighth, with Bayley Currey in ninth, and Grant Enfinger rounding out the top-10.
Dawson Sutton, whose race team, Rackley WAR, is from the Tennessee area, finished a respectable 11th in the No. 26 Rackley Roofing Chevrolet Silverado RST.
Kyle Busch, making his fourth start of the season in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, finished an upsetting 15th in the No. 07, after an early-race penalty for changing lanes before the start-finish line. That penalty set him back significantly and prevented him from another victory or top-10 result.
Leaving Nashville, Corey Heim extends his points lead to an insane 122-point advantage over second-place Daniel Hemric. Chandler Smith was third, with Tyler Ankrum and Grant Enfinger inside the top five.
Next for the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series is a trip to Michigan International Speedway, the first event at the racetrack in several years. The DQS Solutions & Staffing 200 Powered by Precision Vehicle Logistics will take place on Saturday, June 7 at 12:00 PM ET on FOX, NASCAR Radio Network, and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Channel 90.
