NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series News & Notes – Homestead-Miami Speedway

NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series
Next Race: Baptist Health 200
The Place: Homestead-Miami Speedway
Track Length: 1.5 Mile Asphalt Oval
The Date: Friday, March 21
The Time: 8 p.m. ET
The Purse: $782,900
TV: FOX, 8 p.m. ET
Radio: NRN, SiriusXM NASCAR (Channel 90)
Distance: 201 miles (134 Laps); Stage 1 (Ends on Lap 30),
Stage 2 (Ends on Lap 60), Final Stage (Ends on Lap 134)

Where To Watch NASCAR This Week:

Friday, March 21

NCTS Kennametal Pole Qualifying (FS2 at 3:30 p.m. ET)

NCTS Race: Baptist Health 200 (FOX, NRN, SiriusXM at 8 p.m. ET)

Saturday, March 22

NXS Kennametal Pole Qualifying (The CW App at 10:30 a.m. ET)

NCS Practice and Busch Light Pole Qualifying (Amazon Prime, MRN, SiriusXM at 1 p.m. ET)

NXS Race: Hard Rock Bet 300 (The CW, MRN, SiriusXM at 4 p.m. ET)

Sunday, March 23

NCS Race: Straight Talk Wireless 400 (FS1 & FOX Deportes, MRN, SiriusXM at 3 p.m. ET)

Homestead-Miami Storylines and Insights:

2025 will mark the 29th time the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series has competed at Homestead-Miami Speedway (starting in 1996).
Ty Majeski leads the CRAFTSMAN Truck Series standings by five points over Corey Heim in second following Las Vegas.
The last 10 CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races at Homestead-Miami have produced 10 diﬀerent winners.
The Stage 2 winner at Homestead-Miami has gone on to win four of the last six races at Homestead-Miami.
There have been 70 lead changes in 2025 with 35 leaders, the most through three races in CRAFTSMAN Truck Series history.
Corey Heim became the youngest driver to reach 13 wins last week at Las Vegas (22 years old).
Corey Heim has won double the races of any other driver since the start of 2024.
Corey Heim won three of the last ﬁve 1.5-mile races in the Truck Series.
Corey Heim has led the most laps in the last ﬁve 1.5-mile races in the Truck Series.
Corey Heim has won six of the last eight rain-eﬀected Truck races including the last four.
Corey Heim has led 504 laps on 1.5-mile tracks since joining the Truck Series full-time in 2023, nearly double that of any other driver.
Six diﬀerent drivers have won the six stages this season.
Matt Crafton was in 93% of the 1.5-mile races in series history (200 of 216), won at Homestead-Miami in 2015.
Homestead-Miami is the second of ﬁve conventional 1.5-mile tracks on the 2025 schedule. All ﬁve are in a nine-race stretch. The ﬁve races on 1.5-mile tracks in 2025 is the fewest in a Truck Series season since 2000.
2025 is the ﬁrst season without a 1.5-mile track in the CRAFTSMAN Truck Playoﬀs.
15 drivers DNF’d through the ﬁrst three races this year are the fewest in series history.
The last 17 races ended at the scheduled distance, the second longest streak without overtime, the record is 20 races.
Layne Riggs was passed for the win in the last two 1.5-mile races.
Grant Enﬁnger ﬁnished top-10 in the last eight races, tying his longest Truck top-10 streak set in 2019 (he won at Miami last year)
This is the earliest that Miami has been in the season since 2001, the seventh time Miami has been in the ﬁrst four races.
Kyle Larson is running all three NASCAR races at Miami, Kyle Busch is the only driver to sweep all 3 races in a weekend, Bristol 2010 and 2017. This is Larson’s third time running all three races at Miami, ﬁnished top-10 in all three in 2016, was runner up in Trucks, 7th in NXS and 4th in Cup.
Kyle Larson – Three Truck Series wins in 15 starts, won at Homestead-Miami in Xfinity Series and Cup Series, running all three NASCAR national series races this weekend.
Ross Chastain – Five Truck Series wins, top three ﬁnishes in all three series at Homestead-Miami but never won.
Brandon Jones – One Truck Series win (Pocono) in 49 starts, two runner up ﬁnishes at Homestead-Miami in the Xfinity Series.
Michel Disdier, from Nice, France – Three Truck Series starts in his career, last was 2018. Best ﬁnish of 11th at Daytona.
Four countries will be represented in this weekend’s CRAFTSMAN Truck race – United States, Mexico, Canada and France.
Triple Truck Challenge starts at Martinsville, the race after Miami, win one race win $50K, two $150K, all three $500K bonus.

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Historical & Significant Events at Homestead-Miami Speedway:

Groundbreaking for Homestead-Miami Dade Motorsports Complex – as the track was originally named – began August 23, 1994, thanks to Ralph Sanchez, a long-time promotor of street races in the area.
The 600-acre sporting facility, at the time of construction, was owned by city of Homestead on county land and was leased by Sanchez.
The original configuration of Homestead-Miami Speedway was a four-turn, rectangular paved oval based on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s layout.
The first race held at Homestead-Miami Speedway was a NASCAR Xfinity Series event on November 5, 1995. NASCAR Hall of Famer Dale Jarrett won the inaugural Xfinity Series race. Jarrett owned the No. 32 Ford he won the race in, and Jarrett only led the last two laps of the event. The average speed of the race was 92.229 MPH.
The first NASCAR Cup Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway was held on November 14, 1999. The inaugural Cup Series race was won by NASCAR Hall of Famer Tony Stewart, driving a Joe Gibbs Racing Pontiac. The average speed of the race was 140.335 MPH.
International Speedway Corporation (now NASCAR) became the sole owner of Homestead-Miami Speedway in 2001.
The 2002 season was the first year the Championship Weekend was held at Homestead-Miami Speedway, with all three of NASCAR’s national series holding their season finale at the same track. The track would host the season finale from 2002-2019.
In 2003, the track underwent a major reconfiguration from what was a flat 1.5-mile rectangular-shaped track to a 1.5-mile asphalt oval with progressive banking in the turns.
The 2019 season was the last time all three NASCAR national series held the Championship race at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
At 25 degree longitude, Miami is the southernmost track that NASCAR visits within the United States. Mexico City is at 19 degree longitude.

Latest Homestead-Miami Speedway Storylines:

Homestead-Miami Speedway announced that Miami Dolphins edge rusher Bradley Chubb has been named the grand marshal for the Straight Talk Wireless 400. The two-time veteran Pro Bowl star will fire up the South Florida fans with the most famous words in motorsports before an epic on-track battle between the NASCAR Cup Series drivers on Sunday, March 23.
Grammy Award-winner and urban superstar Wisin will help the Straight Talk Wireless 400 get started on a high note as he leads the field to green as the honorary pace car driver, while the iconic Cuban duo Gente de Zona brings an impactful legacy in Cuban music to the track as honorary event officials, Homestead-Miami Speedway has announced. Juan Luis Morera Luna, known as Wisin, helped pioneer the style of reggaeton, collaborating with legends such as Jennifer Lopez, 50 Cent, T-Pain and Enrique Iglesias. With more than 22 No. 1 hits on Billboard’s Latin Airplay chart, and 1.5 billion streams in the United States alone, Wisin’s popularization of reggaeton has united generations.