By AMANDA VINCENT
Corey Heim claimed his seventh win of the 2025 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season Friday night at Richmond (Va.) Raceway in the eero 250, the Truck Series regular-season finale. The win also was Heim’s third in the last four races.
“Yeah, it is awesome. We’ve carved on this one for a while,” Heim said. “We’ve been in position for a lot of these this year. I feel like we were the best truck at Martinsville and (North) Wilkesboro, but I felt like they got away from us. We kind of got this one back. I didn’t feel like we were the best truck tonight. The 98 (Ty Majeski) was, obviously, really stout, but he had a run-in and got some damage, so being able to be there when it counted was the first goal, and we were just was able to execute it from there. Huge thank you to TRICON Garage, Toyota, Safelite – everyone that makes it happen for me.”
Ty Majeski finished second after leading 143 laps of the 250-lap race. As the race leader, he was caught up in an incident with ThorSport Racing teammate Matt Crafton on lap 200, dropping Majeski to second in the running order.
“You always want to win. When we got spun, there, when there was oil on the race track, there’s a pretty big wicker on that right-rear,” Majeski said. “My balance just went away a little bit. Even though it was probably good for aero, it was a little bit too good and just made me a little bit too tight that last run. Once I lost control of the race, the 17 (Heim) is, obviously, pretty desperate. He moved me a couple times, and I lost control. By the time I got to second, I was pretty much done, there. I’m very disappointed. We had a fast Soda Sense Ford F-150. I’m really proud of everybody at ThorSport. We have a lot of momentum going into the playoffs with a seventh last week and a second at Lime Rock. We’re in the game right now, so we just need to do our deal, step our way through the playoffs, and anything could happen.”
NASCAR Xfinity Series regular Sammy Smith inherited the lead, but Heim took the top spot on lap 231. After losing a few positions, Majeski returned to second on lap 233.
By the checkered flag, Smith was back to fourth, also losing a position to Layne Riggs. Corey LaJoie rounded out the top-five.
Eight of the 10 playoff berths already were claimed heading into to Richmond race. Drivers already in the playoffs included Heim, who already had clinched the regular-season title; Majeski; Riggs; Chandler Smith; Daniel Hemric; Grant Enfinger; Tyler Ankrum and Rajah Caruth. Kaden Honeycutt and Jake Garcia took the final two playoff slots with top-10 Richmond finishes. Honeycutt finished 10th in the eero 250, and Garcia was seventh.
Majeski won the 70-lap opening stage after starting the race on the front row and taking the lead from pole sitter Heim on lap 19.
Riggs was second at stage-end after passing Heim for the position on lap 48. Heim was third at the end of stage one.
Only 11 truck remained on the lead lap by the end of the stage.
Majeski completed a stage sweep on lap 140 by winning the second 70-lap stage. His ThorSport teammate Garcia was second at stage-end after passing Heim late in the stage.
Heim was second to Majeski off pit road after stage one and took the lead on the lap-81 restart. Majeski retook the lead on lap-103.
Majeski gave up the lead to pit during a lap-109 caution for Dawson Sutton. After restarting eighth on new tires, Majeski retook the lead from Heim on lap 122.
The second stage also included a caution on lap 90 for Luke Fenhaus and Spencer Boyd.
Other top-10 race finishers at Richmond included Gio Ruggiero in sixth, Ben Rhodes in eighth and Chandler Smith in ninth.
