NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series
Next Race: Boys And Girls Club Of The Blue Ridge 200
The Place: Martinsville Speedway
Track Length: 0.526 Mile Asphalt Oval
The Date: Friday, March 28
The Time: 7:30 p.m. ET
The Purse: $782,900
TV: FS1, 7:30 p.m. ET
Radio: NRN, SiriusXM NASCAR (Channel 90)
Distance: 105.2 miles (200 Laps); Stage 1 (Ends on Lap 50),
Stage 2 (Ends on Lap 100), Final Stage (Ends on Lap 200)
Martinsville Storylines and Insights:
- This weekend will be the 49th running of a NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race at Martinsville Speedway (1995-2025).
- 49 Truck Series races at Martinsville are the second-most held at a track in the series, behind only Texas with 50.
- Triple Truck Challenge starts at Martinsville, win one race win $50K, win two races and bank $150K, but win all three races and pocket a $500K bonus.
- This weekend’s race is the first of seven short track races in 2025 for the CRAFTSMAN Truck Series.
- Martinsville, along with Phoenix, are the only two tracks the CRAFTSMAN Truck Series has raced on in every season since its inception in 1995.
- The last three Martinsville races have seen a driver sweep both stages and then go on to win (Corey Heim – 2023, Christian Eckes – both 2024 races).
- There have been four drivers to sweep both stages and win at Martinsville, tied with Kansas for the most at any track in the CRAFTSMAN Truck Series.
- Grant Enfinger finished top-10 in the last nine races, this is the longest of his career.
- Layne Riggs was the final lead change in the last two races (33 laps to go at Las Vegas, 2 to go at Miami).
- Corey Heim became the youngest driver to reach 13 wins two weeks ago at Las Vegas.
- Corey Heim has won double the races of any other driver since the start of 2024.
- Corey Heim has won six of the last eight rain-effected Truck races including the last four.
- Corey Heim has led 129 laps this season, 90 more than any other series regular. Heim is the only driver to lead all four races this season.
- There have been 83 lead changes in the first four CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races, the most through four races in series history.
- 26 drivers have led a lap in 2025, the most different leaders through four races in series history.
- The last 18 races ended at the scheduled distance, the second longest streak without overtime, the record is 20 races.
- Three of the four drivers in the Championship 4 Round in 2024, are top 4 in points in 2025, only one missing is Christian Eckes, who moved to the Xfinity Series.
- Spire Motorsports and TRICON have won all four Truck Series races in 2025.
- Seven different Stage winners in the first four Truck Series races of 2025 is the most ever.
- Four teams have won the pole in the first four races of 2025, the first time this has happened since 2015.
- This is Stewart Friesen’s best start to a season since 2022.
- Ford only has one win in the last 15 Martinsville races (Grant Enfinger – Oct 2020).
- The Martinsville qualifying track record was set in this race last season (97.523 mph).
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