by Holly Cain, NASCAR Wire
The NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series is on race five of a season-high stretch of six consecutive race weekends with Friday night’s stop at Nashville Superspeedway for the Rackley Roofing 200 (8 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
Championship frontrunner Cory Heim – who will be making his second NASCAR Cup Series start for 23XI Racing on Sunday night – collected his fourth truck series trophy of the season with a dominant performance at Charlotte Motor Speedway last weekend, extending his lead atop the standings to 100-points heading into Friday night’s race. The driver of the No. 11 TRICON Garage Toyota has twice as many wins (four), has led three times as many laps (754) as anyone else and only finished outside the top-10 twice in the 11 races to date this year – all series best statistics.
Heim, however, has never won at Nashville. He has two top-five finishes in three starts, crashing out in his Nashville debut in 2022. He was a career-best third place last year.
Take the huge frontrunner Heim out of it, and the standings are a lot closer among the other title contenders. Front Row Motorsports’ Chandler Smith, a two-race winner, is second to Heim but holds only a 10-point advantage over McAnally-Hilgemann Racing’s Daniel Hemric and a 19-point cushion over Hemric’s teammate Tyler Ankrum – the only other race winners among the full-time competitors in 2025.
No current fulltime drivers have ever won on the 1.33-mile Nashville oval.
Two-time NASCAR Cup Series champ Kyle Busch – who won both the 2010 and 2011 Nashville truck races from pole position – will be making one of his limited season starts Friday, driving the No. 07 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet.
Christian Eckes, who now races fulltime in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, led all 150 laps en route to the trophy last year in one of the most dominating showings in years.
Practice is at 4:05 p.m. ET Friday followed immediately by Kennametal Pole Qualifying at 5:10 p.m. ET – both sessions airing live on FS1. Stewart Friesen won pole position last year and finished 11th. It’s been three years since a polesitter also won the race – Ryan Preece last doing so in 2022.
Check out our NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series News & Notes – Nashville Superspeedway.
NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series
Next Race: Rackley Roofing 200
The Place: Nashville Superspeedway
Track Length: 1.33 Mile Concrete Paved Oval
The Date: Friday, May 30
The Time: 8 p.m. ET
The Purse: $782,900
TV: FS1, 8 p.m. ET
Radio: NRN, SiriusXM NASCAR (Channel 90)
Distance: 199.5 miles (150 Laps); Stage 1 (Ends on Lap 45),
Stage 2 (Ends on Lap 95), Final Stage (Ends on Lap 150)