NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series
Next Race: Window World 250
The Place: North Wilkesboro Speedway
Track Length: 0.625 Mile Asphalt Oval
The Date: Saturday, May 17
The Time: 1:30 p.m. ET
The Purse: $782,900
TV: FS1, 1:30 p.m. ET
Radio: NRN, SiriusXM NASCAR (Channel 90)
Distance: 156.25 miles (250 Laps); Stage 1 (Ends on Lap 70),
Stage 2 (Ends on Lap 140), Final Stage (Ends on Lap 250)
Where To Watch NASCAR This Week:
Friday, May 16
NASCAR All-Star & Open Practice (FS2, MRN, SiriusXM at 4:30 p.m. ET)
NASCAR All-Star & Open Busch Light Pole Qualifying & Pit Crew Challenge (FS1, MRN, SiriusXM at 6 p.m. ET)
Saturday, May 17
NCTS Practice & Kennametal Pole Qualifying (FS2 at 9:30 a.m. ET)
NCTS Race: Window World 250 (FS1, NRN, SiriusXM at 1:30 p.m. ET)
NASCAR All-Star Heat Races (FS2, MRN, SiriusXM at 5 p.m. ET)
Sunday, May 18
NASCAR Open Race (FS1, MRN, SiriusXM at 5 p.m. ET)
NASCAR All-Star Race (FS1, MRN, SiriusXM at 8 p.m. ET)
North Wilkesboro Storylines and Insights:
- This weekend marks the fifth running of a NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race at North Wilkesboro Speedway.
- Stages breaks for North Wilkesboro Speedway: Lap 70, Lap 140, Lap 250.
- This is the third of seven races on short tracks for CRAFTSMAN Truck Series in 2025.
- Four different drivers have won the previous four CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races at North Wilkesboro: Mike Bliss (1995), Mark Martin (1996), Kyle Larson (2023) and Corey Heim (2024).
- 12 Cautions at North Wilkesboro in 2023 was the most at the track in the Truck Series.
- All four Truck Series races at North Wilkesboro had a green flag run of over 50 laps.
- There was 9,730 days between events at North Wilkesboro between 1996 and 2023, the longest break between events at a track in the Truck Series.
- The last five short track races were won by different drivers.
- Toyota is winless in the last six short track races, their longest winless streak ever on short tracks.
- The stage one winner went on to win two of the last three short track races.
- Corey Heim (3 wins) is the only repeat winner in 2025, and the only active North Wilkesboro winner entered this weekend.
- The last six CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races this season where won by different drivers.
- Tyler Ankrum ended a 130 race winless streak at Rockingham, the most starts between wins in Truck series history.
- Corey Heim and Tyler Ankrum lead all drivers with six top-five finishes in 2025.
- Corey Heim is the only driver to lead in all nine races in 2025.
- The 128 lead changes in 2025 are the most ever through nine races in a season.
- Corey Heim is one win away from tying Matt Crafton for 10th in all-time Truck Series wins with 15.
- Grant Enfinger and Corey Heim are the only drivers to finish top-10 in both Truck races at North Wilkesboro.
- NASCAR Cup Series driver Kyle Busch returns to Truck Series this weekend making his second of five scheduled starts in 2025. Busch won in his last Truck start at Atlanta driving the #7 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet.