Everything you need to know ahead of the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Championship Race from Phoenix
NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series
Next Race: NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Championship Race
The Place: Phoenix Raceway
Track Length: 1 Mile Asphalt Oval
The Date: Friday. October 31
The Time: 7:30 p.m. ET
The Purse: $1,160,400
TV: FS1, 7:30 p.m. ET
Radio: NRN, SiriusXM NASCAR (Channel 90)
Distance: 150 miles (150 Laps); Stage 1 (Ends on Lap 45), Stage 2 (Ends on Lap 90), Final Stage (Ends on Lap 150)
On Track:
Friday, Oct. 31st: NCTS Practice & Kennametal Pole Qualifying (FS2 at 3:30 p.m. ET),
NCTS Race: NCTS Championship Race (FS1, NRN, SiriusXM at 7:30 p.m. ET)
Phoenix Raceway Storylines and Insights:
· This week marks the 35th running of a NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race at Phoenix Raceway.
· This is the sixth consecutive season Phoenix will host the Championship race (2020-2025)
· Phoenix is one of only two tracks to host a Truck Series race in every year of its existence (Martinsville)
· The regular season champion went on to win the championship twice, Corey Heim won regular season championship in 2025
· Corey Heim and Ty Majeski are the only two Championship 4 drivers who have appeared in the Championship 4 before
· Corey Heim finished top 3 in the last 10 races, the first driver in series history to accomplish this feat
· Corey Heim is 6 laps led away from tying the all-time single season laps led record (Mike Skinner, 1533 laps - 1996). He’s led 68 laps in three starts at Phoenix, including 16 last year.
· Corey Heim has led over 40% of the laps raced in 2025, the highest percentage ever in a season
· Corey Heim led 25 consecutive races, the longest streak in Truck Series history.
· Corey Heim led in every race in 2025 and could become the first driver to lead in every race of a season
· Corey Heim finished top-5 in all six Playoff races in 2025, no driver finished top-5 in every race of the playoffs in a season
· 20 races this season were won by drivers aged 25 or younger, the most ever in a single Truck Series season
· ThorSport Racing remains winless after 24 races in 2025, the deepest into a season the organization has gone without a win since 2007, the last time they were winless in a season
· Chevrolet has not won in 12 races (Rajah Caruth – Nashville in May), after winning six of the first 12 races of 2025, tied for the brand’s longest winless streak in Truck Series history.
· TRICON Garage won seven of the last eight races. No team has ever won eight out of nine races.
· TRICON Garage won the last four races. The Truck Series record is five consecutive wins by one team, which occurred four previous times, most recently Kyle Busch Motorsports in 2021
· Toyota will win their 14th career manufacturers championship
· Three of the five Phoenix Championship races went into overtime. The 2023 Championship race required three overtime attempts and 29 extra laps, the longest overtime in series history
· In every Phoenix Championship race with overtime, the pass for the win came in overtime
· In every Phoenix Championship race with overtime, the pass for the Championship happened in overtime
· Ty Majeski and Corey Heim combined to lead 148 of the 150 laps in last year’s Phoenix finale
· Kaden Honeycutt can become the first Truck Series champion to have driven for multiple teams in his title-winning season
· Kaden Honeycutt could become the first Truck series Champion without a series win. Matt Crafton won the 2019 Championship without winning a race that season but he had prior career wins
· Ford teams won the last three NCTS Driver Championships
· ThorSport Racing won three of the last four and the last two NTS Driver Championships
· The last Toyota team to win the Championship was ThorSport Racing in 2021
· Every truck series Champion was born prior to the year 2000. Corey Heim (2002), Tyler Ankrum (2001), Kaden Honeycutt (2003) were all born in the current millennium. (Ty Majeski was born in 1994)
· The average age of the Championship 4 is 25 years, 4 months, 20 days the youngest ever