(NASCAR MEDIA) – This weekend marks the 30th running of a NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race at Kansas Speedway (2001-2025). This is the only Kansas race in 2025, after multiple Kansas races in each of the previous three season and three in 2020.
- Kansas is the second of a six consecutive week stretch of Truck races, the longest stretch of the season, this stretch will go through Michigan the first week of June.
- Kansas Speedway is the fourth of five conventional 1.5-mile tracks on the 2025 CRAFTSMAN Truck Series schedule – Homestead, Las Vegas, Texas, Kansas and Charlotte. All five 1.5 mile track races will be completed before the end of May.
- A total of 24 different CRAFTSMAN Truck Series drivers have won at Kansas Speedway, and four of the 24 are active this weekend: Matt Crafton (2013, 2015, 2020), Corey Heim (2024 sweep), Grant Enfinger (2023) and William Byron (2016).
- Corey Heim swept both Kansas races in 2024, the 10 races prior to that were won by 10 different drivers.
- Corey Heim (three wins) is the only repeat CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race winner in 2025.
- Corey Heim won or was passed for the win in five of the last six Kansas races.
- The pass for the win came in the final eight laps in 10 of the last 15 Kansas races.
- Tyler Ankrum ended a 130-race winless streak at Rockingham, the most starts between wins in Truck series history.
- Two drivers finished top-10 in the first three 1.5 mile track races of 2025: Tyler Ankrum, Corey Heim
- Texas Motor Speedway was the only race to go into overtime in the last 22 Truck Series races.
- Tyler Ankrum leads all drivers with six top-five finishes in 2025, tied for his most ever in a season.
- Corey Heim is the only driver to lead in all eight races in 2025.
- Two drivers are on the longest top-10 streak of their careers: Tyler Ankrum 7, Rajah Caruth 4 (tie).
- Corey Heim’s four consecutive top fives and five consecutive top 10s are tied for the second-longest streaks all-time at Kansas.
- Corey Heim needs 64 laps led to pass Kyle Busch for most laps led all-time at Kansas in the Truck Series.
- Corey Heim’s 697 laps led on 1.5-mile tracks is eighth all-time and the seven drivers ahead of him have all led 1000+ laps.
- A total of 19 different drivers have won the pole in CRAFTSMAN Truck Series at Kansas Speedway, and only two are active this weekend: Matt Crafton (2019) and Ty Majeski (2024).
- Four drivers in the field finished runner-up at Kansas but never won – Ben Rhodes, Ty Majeski, Carson Hocevar and Layne Riggs.
- Morgen Baird, from Grass Lake, Michigan, is making his CRAFTSMAN Truck Series debut this weekend.
- Five drivers in the field have never made a Truck Series start at Kansas – No. 2 Dennison, No. 17 Ruggiero, No. 22 Baird, No. 66 Baldwin and No. 77 Perez.
- The 120 lead changes in 2025 are the most ever through eight races in a season.
- Corey Heim led 218 of the 442 laps races on 1.5 mile tracks in 2025 (49%).
- Only Kyle Busch (twice) has a better average finish than Corey Heim’s 1.67 average finish in 2025 through three races on 1.5 mile tracks.
- Brandon Jones is in the No. 1 truck this weekend at Kansas, he is a two-time NASCAR Xfinity Series winner at Kansas Speedway (2019, 2020).
- Nathan Byrd’s best CRAFTSMAN Truck Series finish is 14th, in each of the last two races… he made his Truck Series debut at Kanas last Fall (finished 19th).
- William Byron won his only CRAFTSMAN Truck Series start at Kansas in May 2016, it was his first Truck win.
- Dawson Sutton finished a Truck Series career-best fifth at Kansas last September, he got his second Truck Series top-10 finish last week at Texas (ninth).
- Ty Majeski’s average start at Kansas in eight races is 5.5, his average finish of 17.8 is 12.3 spots lower.
- Each of the last three Kansas races had green flag pit stops.
- Three of the four Kansas races won from a starting position outside the top-10, came in the last four races; including last Fall when Heim won from 33rd.
- Corey Heim is two wins away from tying Matt Crafton for 10th in all time NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series wins with 15.
- Corey Heim currently leads the CRAFTSMAN Truck Series driver point standings by 46 points over Chandler Smith in second place.
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