Truck Series: Corey Heim dominates in Charlotte

Written by Bailey Defoor

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It’s Heim Time! After dominating in all three stages, Corey Heim takes his fifteenth Truck Series win tonight at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

As it unfolded

The TRICON Garage locked out the top three in qualifying with Giovanni Ruggiero scoring his first career pole, Tanner Gray on the outside and Corey Heim just behind Ruggiero. 

When the green flag dropped, Heim gave Ruggiero a little push to get them to the front. Gray dropped to third and Ross Chastain challenged for the place.

Heim took the lead on lap 3 by going around the outside of Ruggiero, and Chastain followed Heim, taking second place. 

Chastain got to the lead on lap 5 and brushed the wall on the exit but kept the lead narrowly and opend the door for Heim to come back.

It was not until lap 16 that Heim got back in front of Chastain and began pulling away. 

The stage finished off with no cautions.

Stage 1 Results:

1. No. 11 - Corey Heim (TRICON Garage)

2. No. 44 - Ross Chastain (Niece Motorsports) +4 laps

3. No. 34 - Layne Riggs (Front Row Motorsports)

4. No. 45 - Kaden Honeycutt (Niece Motorsports)

5. No. 7 - Kyle Busch (Spire Motorsports)

6. No. 17 - Giovanni Ruggiero (TRICON Garage)

7. No. 19 - Daniel Hemric (McAnally Hilgemann Racing)

8. No. 38 - Chandler Smith (Front Row Motorsports)

9. No. 98 - Ty Majeski (ThorSport Racing)

10. No. 42 - Matt Mills (Niece Motorsports)

Fun fact, this is Heim’s seventh stage win in 2025 and no other driver has more than two.

On lap 30, just after the stage caution, Toni Breidinger made contact with the wall between turns 3 and 4 while running in 30th, but she was able to make it back to pit road unassisted.

All of the drivers pit under the stage caution. Off of pit road, Kaden Honeycutt came out first ahead of Heim and making up three places. Chastain lost a lot of time on pit road and dropped out of the top five.

Honeycutt and Heim led the way back to the green flag on lap 39. Honeycutt was able to get in front of Heim.

On lap 40, Kyle Busch, Heim and Honeycutt went three-wide for the lead. Busch didn’t have the run as Heim nudged Honeycutt and got to the front. 

Chastain climbed up to challenge for second place on lap 43.

On lap 44, Honeycutt dropped to the bottom of the track and flew back to Heim’s bumper and took the lead for a lap before Heim retook the lead to the end of the stage.

Stage 2 Results:

1. No. 11 - Corey Heim (TRICON Garage)

2. No. 45 - Kaden Honeycutt (Niece Motorsports)

3. No. 7 - Kyle Busch (Spire Motorsports)

4. No. 34 - Layne Riggs (Front Row Motorsports)

5. No. 44 - Ross Chastain (Niece Motorsports) +4 laps

6. No. 19 - Daniel Hemric (McAnally Hilgemann Racing)

7. No. 98 - Ty Majeski (ThorSport Racing)

8. No. 17 - Giovanni Ruggiero (TRICON Garage)

9. No. 38 - Chandler Smith (Front Row Motorsports)

10. No. 9 - Grant Enfinger (CR7 Motorsports)

Gray pits on lap 61 with a flat tyre. 

Many drivers pit under the stage caution on lap 65, and Honeycutt made it off pit road ahead of Heim once again. 

On the restart at lap 68, Honeycutt got away first. Heim and Chastain made it three wide for the lead on lap 69, and Heim got out ahead of both drivers.

The first caution came on lap 70 as Ty Majeski and Chandler Smith spun out on the main straight. Ruggiero made contact with Smith, who spun into Majeski off the fourth turn. When Smith and Majeski spun, BJ McLeod and Connor Mosack also made contact with the outside wall.

Smith headed to the garage and had to retire the car.

Heim and Chastain led the drivers back to green on lap 78. Heim was able to clear Chastain into the first turn.

On lap 81, Layne Riggs moved up into second after starting outside of the top 5 on the restart.

On lap 84, Busch passed Chastain for third after brushing the wall a lap prior.

Ben Rhodes made an unscheduled pit stop with a flat tyre from ninth on lap 87.

By lap 93, Heim had extended his lead ahead of Riggs by over 2 seconds. 10 laps later, there was a 5 second gap to the rest of the field behind.

Lap 104 brough the first green flag pit stops. 

Heim, Busch and Chastain pitted on lap 105. Matt Mills took the lead before pitting a lap later. Rajah Caruth assumed the lead on lap 107.

Caruth pits on lap 116, and Stewart Frisen took the lead before pitting a lap later. Heim resumed the lead on lap 117.

Corey Heim wins in dominant fashion at Charlotte, and this is his fifteenth Truck Series win.

Provisional Results

1. No. 11 - Corey Heim (TRICON Garage)

2. No. 44 - Ross Chastain (Niece Motorsports)

3. No. 45 - Kaden Honeycutt (Niece Motorsports)

4. No. 34 - Layne Riggs (Front Row Motorsports)

5. No. 7 - Kyle Busch (Spire Motorsports)

6. No. 9 - Grant Enfinger (CR7 Motorsports)

7. No. 42 - Matt Mills (Niece Motorsports)

8. No. 19 - Daniel Hemric (McAnally Hilgemann Racing)

9. No. 71 - Rajah Caruth (Spire Motorsports)

10. No. 1 - Brandon Jones (TRICON Garage)

11. No. 13 - Jake Garcia (ThorSport Racing)

12. No. 18 - Tyler Ankrum (McAnally Hilgemann Racing)

13. No. 52 - Stewart Friesen (Halmar Friesen Racing) +1 lap

14. No. 75 - Parker Kligerman (Henderson Motorsports) +1 lap

15. No. 07 - BJ McLeod (Spire Motorsports) +1 lap

16. No. 77 - Andrés Pérez de Lara (Spire Motorsports) +1 lap

17. No. 99 - Ben Rhodes (ThorSport Racing) +1 lap

18. No. 66 - Luke Fenhaus (ThorSport Racing) +1 lap

19. No. 56 - Timmy Hill (Hill Motorsports) +2 laps

20. No. 88 - Matt Crafton (ThorSport Racing) +2 laps

21. No. 17 - Giovanni Ruggiero (TRICON Garage) +2 laps

22. No. 02 - Stefan Parsons (Young's Motorsports) +2 laps

23. No. 81 - Connor Mosack (McAnally Hilgemann Racing) +2 laps

24. No. 76 - Spencer Boyd (Freedom Racing Enterprises) +2 laps

25. No. 91 - Jack Wood (McAnally Hilgemann Racing) +2 laps

26. No. 15 - Tanner Gray (TRICON Garage) +4 laps

27. No. 33 - Frankie Muniz (Reaume Brothers Racing) +8 laps

28. No. 22 - Mason Maggio (Reaume Brothers Racing) +11 laps

29. No. 2 - Cody Dennison (Reaume Brothers Racing) +13 laps

30. No. 5 -  Toni Breidinger (TRICON Garage) +13 laps

31. No. 26 - Dawson Sutton (Rackley W.A.R.) [DNF]

32. No. 98 - Ty Majeski (ThorSport Racing) +31 laps

33. No. 11 - Justin Carroll (Terry Carroll Motorsports) [DNF]

34. No. 38 - Chandler Smith (Front Row Motorsports) [DNF]

Next week, the Craftsman Truck Series heads to Nashville Superspeedway on Friday, May 30, at 20:00 EST (Saturday, May 31, 01:00 BST).