NASCAR has changed the finishing order of the Craftsman Truck Series race at Rockingham Speedway. The sanctioning body has disqualified the championship leader.
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NASCAR announced the news with its post-race inspection report. According to NASCAR Comms, the No. 38 Ford F-150 failed to meet post-race rear body inspection height requirements. This meant that Chandler Smith dropped to 36th in the finishing order.
The Front Row Motorsports driver had originally finished the race in fourth place and locked up 33 points. The disqualification meant that he only secured one point.
The No. 1 Toyota that Tricon Garage driver Corey Heim used to win his 25th career race passed inspection. He kept his win and the $150,000 Triple Truck Challenge prize.
Smith entered the weekend as the championship leader after winning at Daytona International Speedway and posting top-10 finishes at EchoPark Speedway and St. Petersburg.
Heim technically led in the points standings, but he is only part-time this season and is not eligible for the Chase. Smith then passed Heim with his fourth-place finish. He moved to 205 points on the season.
The disqualification dropped him to 173 points. He is now third in the standings behind Kaden Honeycutt (190) and Layne Riggs (179).
The Georgia native actually started the race in last place. His team had to replace a broken shock after qualifying. He then worked his way up to 16th place by the end of stage 2. He used the final stage to work his way inside of the top five, but it was all for naught.
According to reporter/writer Seth Eggert, this is not the first time that a Front Row Motorsports truck has been disqualified for failing post-race inspection. The last time occurred at Kansas Speedway in 2025. Riggs lost his runner-up because of the truck bed cover material.
Riggs also failed post-race inspection at EchoPark Speedway (Atlanta) in 2024 due to a windshield support violation. He had finished 24th. Zane Smith failed inspection at Homestead-Miami Speedway in 2023 for the same infraction. He had finished second.
