NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series News & Notes – Michigan International Speedway

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The Place: Michigan International Speedway
Track Length: 2 Mile Asphalt Paved Oval
The Date: Saturday, June 7
The Time: 12 p.m. ET
The Purse: $782,900
TV: FOX, 12 p.m. ET
Radio: NRN, SiriusXM NASCAR (Channel 90)
Distance: 250 miles (125 Laps); Stage 1 (Ends on Lap 30),
Stage 2 (Ends on Lap 60), Final Stage (Ends on Lap 125)

Where To Watch NASCAR This Weekend:

Friday, June 6

ARCA Race: Henry Ford Health 200 (FS2, MRN, SiriusXM at 5 p.m. ET)

Saturday, June 7

NCTS Practice & Kennametal Pole Qualifying (FS1 at 8 a.m. ET)

NCS Practice & Busch Light Pole Qualifying (Amazon Prime, MRN, SiriusXM at 9:30 a.m. ET)

NCTS Race: DQS Solutions & Staffing 200 (FOX, NRN, SiriusXM at Noon ET)

Sunday, June 8

NCS Race: FireKeepers Casino 400 (Amazon Prime, MRN, SiriusXM at 2 p.m. ET)

Michigan Storylines and Insights:

• This weekend marks the 22nd running of a NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race at Michigan International Speedway, and the first since 2020.
• Stages for Michigan: Lap 30, Lap 60 Lap 125.
• Teams will get 50 minutes of practice on Friday, qualifying on Saturday morning.
• Michigan is the sixth race of the six consecutive race stretch.
• Michigan is one of six new tracks on the 2025 schedule, four are returning to the Truck Series.

• It will be 1,765 days between NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Michigan races.
• There were 15 different winners in the last 16 Michigan races, Brett Moffitt 2016 and 2018 is the only repeat winner in that period.
• The race winner started 10th or better in the last 11 Michigan Truck Series races, and the Michigan winner has a 7.5 average start.
• Three of the last five Michigan races were won with a last lap pass.
• Michigan is tied for the second-most last lap passes since 2016 and did not hold a race from 2021-2024.
• ThorSport Racing is the only active CRAFTSMAN Truck Series team with a win at Michigan.
• Four organizations won in 2025, all four won multiple races: Spire (4), TRICON (4), Front Row (2) and McAnally-Hilgemann (2).
• The driver who has led the most laps has won seven of the 12 CRAFTSMAN Truck races in 2025.
• The last four races of 2025 were won by different drivers.
• Five CRAFTSMAN Truck Series drivers have won their first series race at Michigan International Speedway: Johnny Benson (2006), Colin Braun (2009), Nelson Piquet Jr. (2012), Brett Moffitt (2016) and Zane Smith (2020).
• Qualifying was cancelled in four of the last seven CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races of 2025.
• Four CRAFTSMAN Truck Series drivers have won their first series pole at Michigan International Speedway: Jamie McMurray (2000), Kyle Busch (2005), Brian Ickler (2009) and Joey Coulter (2012).
• Daniel Hemric is the only driver to complete every lap in 2025, the first season since 2019 that a driver completed every lap through 12 races (Crafton in 2019).
• None of the drivers entered in his weekend’s CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race has won at Michigan.
• 18 entered drivers have not raced at Michigan in the CRAFTSMAN Truck Series.
• Five of the 10 playoff positions are now held by race winners with six races to go in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series regular season.
• Two of the remaining six regular season races are on road courses.
• Rajah Caruth was 13th in the Playoff standings, -17 to the bubble before winning at Nashville, outside the Playoff standings lost 38 or more points to the cut line.
• Corey LaJoie becomes the 13th driver to race for Spire in Trucks in 2025. Lajoie has announced he will compete in nine Truck Series races this season for the team.
• Thirteen different drivers have won stages in the CRAFTSMAN Truck Series through 12 races.
• Corey Heim leads the CRAFTSMAN Truck Series in stage wins this season with nine, Layne Riggs has the next most with three.
• Corey Heim is the only driver to lead laps in all 12 Truck Series races this season, and he leads the series laps led with 812 out front (40.6%).
• Eight different drivers have won the Xfinity Fastest Lap Award in the Truck Series, led by Corey Heim with four awards this season.
• Last season’s Truck Series champion Ty Majeski currently sits in the 10th and final Playoff transfer spot on points, up a stout 48 points on rookie Giovanni Ruggiero in 11th – the first spot outside the postseason cutline.
• Two-time series champion Ben Rhodes is currently 13th in the Playoff outlook, 51 points back from the cutoff.