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The Marietta, Georgia native becomes the first driver in history to lead 800 laps in first 12 Truck Series races
NASHVILLE (May 30, 2025) – Corey Heim won the second stage and battled
for the lead late before finishing second to lead Toyota in the NASCAR
Truck Series race at Nashville Superspeedway on Friday evening.
After leading 58 (of 150) laps, Heim has now led over 800 laps this
season and became the first driver in NASCAR Truck Series history to
lead over 800 laps in the first 12 races of the Truck Series season.
Heim also extended his points lead to 122 points over Daniel Hemric
heading into Michigan.
TOYOTA QUOTES
COREY HEIM, No. 11 Safelite/Foster Love Toyota Tundra TRD Pro, TRICON Garage
Finishing Position: 2nd
_What more did you need to get the win tonight?___
“I feel like just clean air was the main thing tonight. With the third
stage tonight being pretty straight forward, with a lack of strategy and
all green, it was tough to come back for the lead, but I slid through my
box there on the last stop and didn’t do my guys any favors. Just
something to reflect on my end, but huge congrats to Rajah (Caruth). He
did an awesome job managing from the lead. I was really free behind him,
and he made pretty much the right move every time where I was going to
go. That was cool; big congrats to him, and thank you to TRICON Garage,
Toyota, Safelite – we wrapped up the month with Foster Love with a P2.
I would have loved to get my first guitar, but always next time.”
_Can you take us through the battle there at the end?_
“We were certainly a lot better on the long runs tonight, so I knew
that was going to kind of my opportunity coming down to the wire there.
Just such a short stage and a straight forward strategy play on all
parts there, so once you kind of lose the lead it is really tough to get
it back until you hit lap traffic. Congrats to Rajah (Caruth). He did an
awesome job to fend us off. I thought we had the best truck there at the
end, but he made all of the right moves there defend from the lead. That
was a lot of fun, and glad we could put a good show there for the fans.
Huge thank you to TRICON Garage, Toyota and Safelite.”
_What are you looking forward to for the remainder of the regular
season?_
“We have some good tracks coming up. I feel like we’ve had speed
everywhere, so being able to race in general is exciting for me, but
there are definitely some tracks that we’ve been better at than
others. Definitely looking forward to that, and it is always a pleasure
to race for these 11 guys. They’ve been really lights out as far as
the pace in the truck. Definitely need to polish a couple things on my
end to keep that lead at the end there and kind of doing what Rajah
(Caruth) was doing and defending from there. All-in-all, good effort and
good points day. Going to move forward with a smile on our faces.”
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