(WNFL/NASCAR) – Here’s what you need to know about tonight’s NASCAR Truck Series race in Bristol.
NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series
Next Race: Weather Guard Truck Race
The Place: Bristol Motor Speedway
Track Length: 0.533 Mile Concrete Oval
The Date: Friday, April 11
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: 133.25 miles (250 Laps); Stage 1 (Ends on Lap 65),
Stage 2 (Ends on Lap 130), Final Stage (Ends on Lap 250)
- This weekend will be the 29th running of a NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race at Bristol Motor Speedway (1995-2025).
- McAnally-Hilgemann Racing’s Daniel Hemric won the first race of the 2025 Triple Truck Challenge at Martinsville Speedway taking home the $50K bonus. If he wins at Bristol and Rockingham, he can win up to $500k in bonus prize money.
- Each Triple Truck Challenge Event will award a $50,000 bonus to the highest finishing eligible driver. If a driver wins two of the three Triple Truck Challenge awards, that race winner will receive an additional $50,000 bonus for a total of $150,000.
- If an eligible driver wins all three of the Triple Truck Challenge awards that race winner will receive an additional $300,000 bonus for a total of $500,000.
- Bristol Motor Speedway is the second of seven short track races in 2025 for the CRAFTSMAN Truck Series.
- There have been 12 different winners in the last 12 CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races at Bristol Motor Speedway.
- Different organizations have won the last six Bristol races.
- Five of the last 12 Bristol races were won by drivers getting their first Truck win, three of the last six.
- Four of the last six Bristol winners got their first win of the season.
- Four former CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Bristol race winners are active this season: Corey Heim-1, Ty Majeski-1, Layne Riggs-1, Chandler Smith-1.
- Corey Heim has won double the races of any other driver since the start of 2024. Heim leads the Truck Series with two wins this season (Daytona, Las Vegas).
- Corey Heim leads the CRAFTSMAN Truck Series driver standings following Martinsville by 20 points over last year’s champion Ty Majeski in second place.
- Corey Heim has led 278 laps this season, three times more than the next driver (Kyle Busch-80), and 229 more than any other series regular. Heim is the only driver to lead laps all five Truck Series races this season.
- Five different drivers have finished runner-up in the first five races of the 2025 Truck Series season.
- Two drivers have finished inside the top-five in three of the first five races of 2025: Corey Heim and Tyler Ankrum.
- Chandler Smith leads all Truck Series drivers in top-10 finishes this season with five in the first five races.
- Four drivers have finished every lap of all five of the Truck Series races this season (100% laps completed): Chandler Smith, Daniel Hemric, Tanner Gray and Ty Majeski.
- There have been 88 lead changes in the first five CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races, the most through five races in series history.
- A stage winner has not won the race at Bristol since 2019.
- The stage 2 winner finished second in the last three Bristol races.
- Tyler Ankrum finished top-10 in the last eight short track races, his last finish outside the top-10 at a short track was Bristol Fall 2023.
- The last 19 races ended at the scheduled distance, the second longest streak without overtime, the record is 20 races.
- McAnally Hilgemann Racing has won four of the last eight short track races.
- Daniel Hemric is the oldest first time truck winner since Martin Truex Jr. at Bristol Dirt in 2021. He is the oldest first time winner on a paved track since Michael Waltrip heroically won at Daytona in 2011 with a damaged truck.
- Kyle Larson is running all three NASCAR races at Bristol, Kyle Busch is the only driver to sweep all three races in a weekend, Bristol 2010 and 2017. Larson won two of the three races at Miami earlier this year, dominated the NXS but lost on an overtime restart.
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