CONCORD, N.C. — Brent Crews dominated Friday afternoon's race at the Charlotte Roval, but it was Corey Heim who celebrated the win after going from a first lap wreck to victory lane.
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He punched his ticket to the Championship 4 and also broke Greg Biffle's record for the most wins in a single Craftsman Truck Series season. Biffle won nine races in 1999. Heim has 10 wins with three races remaining on the 2025 schedule.
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"It was not easy today," Heim told Fox Sports. "I think this was probably the toughest one of the year so far. Just shows the resilience of the Tricon team. They fixed it up so good for me after that incident on the first lap.
"Just kind of out of our control, and I thought we were done. Honestly, the right front completely folded when I hit the wall over there. So, kind of out of breath just from screaming after that one. That was awesome. But man, just shows the resilience."
NASCAR TRUCK SERIES HISTORY! Corey Heim bounces back on the Charlotte Roval to become the winningest driver in a single Truck Series season (10). https://t.co/3OzcwAIOS3 pic.twitter.com/M6WjCVeGSs
— FOX: NASCAR (@NASCARONFOX) October 3, 2025
Crews, who split time this season between his own team and Tricon Garage, took advantage of chaos on the opening lap of the Truck Series playoff race. Heim, Layne Riggs, and Grant Enfinger all crashed in Turn 1. This opened the door for Crews to jump from fourth to first.
Once the Toyota development driver got clean air, he didn't look back. He spent the entire race at the front of the pack, only giving up his lead to pit early and flip the first two stages. He then built up a lead of three seconds over Heim in the final stage as he continued to take advantage of clean air.
It was appeared that Crews would win as he led a race-high 56 laps, but the situation completely changed before he could take the white flag. Two different things took the win away, the first of which was an issue with fuel.
Crews's No. 1 Toyota began to stumble as he tried to hold off Heim in the closing laps. Tricon Garage teammate Toni Breidinger then stalled in Turn 5, which brought out the caution and sent the race to overtime.
Crews did not have enough fuel to stay out for an overtime finish, so he gave up the lead to pit. Heim gambled and remained out on the track on 34-lap tires.
Once the green flag flew, Heim cleared for the lead entering Turn 1. He continued to put some distance between his No. 11 Toyota and the field, and then he gained an even larger advantage after a big stackup in Turn 7. This was all Heim needed to secure his 10th win of the season.
"Just really happy for Tricon being able to go 1-2 there," Crews said. "Congrats to the whole 11 team. They did a great job all day as well, and I was happy to see them get back up there, but I definitely didn't want to see them stay out there (after the caution).
"So definitely sucks, but learned a lot today and I'm grateful for all the fans that are here today and glad we had a shot at it."
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While Crews gave up the lead to pit before the end of stages 1 and 2, a bubble driver capitalized. Kaden Honeycutt stayed out on the track and swept the stage wins, locking up a crucial 20 points. This became key after he entered the Round of 8 at a seven-point deficit to the cutline. Now, he heads to Talladega within striking distance of the cutline.
Holy crap... 2nd to 8th are only separated by 6 points pic.twitter.com/55GoCXIgpY
— Eric Estepp (@EricEstepp17) October 3, 2025
Enfinger, Daniel Hemric, Rajah Caruth, Tyler Ankrum, and Ty Majeski followed a similar strategy. They stayed out on the track to accumulate stage points and put themselves in a better position heading to Talladega Superspeedway for the next race in the Round of 8.
Hemric, in particular, finished fourth in both stages and locked up 14 stage points. An issue in overtime dropped him to an 11th-place finish, but he moved above the Championship 4 cutline.
