NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Championship Tag

By Luis Torres, Staff Writer The final race of the 2024 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season was held at Phoenix Raceway for the fifth straight year last Friday. Christian Eckes, Grant Enfinger, Corey Heim, and Ty Majeski were all looking for their first series title during the Championship 4 round. For much of the 150-lap race, it was Majeski who was the class of the field and ended up capturing his the championship. A moment the racer out of Wisconsin will never forget after all the trails and tribulations he’s facedRead More

By Luis Torres, Staff Writer Ford Performance drivers have certainly hit its stride when it comes to NASCAR’s Championship 4 at Phoenix Raceway with Joey Logano and Ty Majeski winning titles in the sport’s national touring divisions. Entering last week’s finale, Ford had a hot streak of four straight championships dating back to Logano’s second Cup title in 2022 that was extended to five when Majeski won the Craftsman Truck Series title. However, a shot at six consecutive touring titles came up short in the Xfinity Series when Cole Custer lostRead More

By David Morgan, Associate Editor AVONDALE, Ariz. – The short track ace delivered. Ty Majeski has had Phoenix Raceway circled on the calendar for months, knowing that if he and his No. 98 ThorSport Racing team made it to the season finale as one of the four NASCAR Truck Series championship contenders, the title would have to go through them. With all but one of his now six career wins coming on short tracks, Majeski had the skillset necessary to get the job done on the one-mile Phoenix oval and fromRead More

By Luis Torres, Staff Writer AVONDALE, Ariz. — A whole round team effort by Grant Enfinger and CR7 Motorsports have brought them to the Championship 4. Despite ending up fourth among the Championship 4 competitors, Enfinger and the No. 9 organization will leave Phoenix Raceway with their chin up and go at it again in 2025. On a cool Friday night that saw Ty Majeski dominate the 150-lap contest and hoist his maiden NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship, speed was an elusive battle for Enfinger. In a race where he hadRead More

By Kirby Arnold, Special Contributor  AVONDALE, Ariz. — Corey Heim knew he would need to drive a near-perfect race to snag the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series championship Friday night at Phoenix Raceway.  In the end, even that wasn’t enough to beat Ty Majeski, who dominated from the start to win the race and capture his first series championship. Majeski led 132 of the 150 laps and controlled the final 26 laps after a late caution flag.  Heim, clearly the best of the rest and the only real challenger to Majeski,Read More

By Kirby Arnold, Special Contributor AVONDALE, Ariz. — Christian Eckes has been here before, victory lane in a championship race at Phoenix Raceway. But then, he hasn’t.  The 23-year-old won the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series final race last year on the one-mile oval, but he wasn’t among the four drivers running for the championship. Sweet as it was to win and finish fifth in the standings, he has one focus Friday night when he straps into his McAnally Hilgemann Racing Chevrolet Silverado.  Claim the championship.  “We’ve turned it into aRead More

By David Morgan, Associate Editor AVONDALE, Ariz. – The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series will be the first title fight of the weekend to be settled, as the four remaining drivers in the Playoffs will duke it out Friday night at Phoenix Raceway for the right to hoist the championship trophy when the checkered flag falls. Eight drivers started the Playoffs with a berth in the championship race in mind, but half of them fell by the wayside, leaving Grant Enfinger, Christian Eckes, Corey Heim, and Ty Majeski as the four driversRead More

By David Morgan, Associate Editor AVONDALE, Ariz. – Is Ty Majeski the early favorite heading into Friday night’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Championship Race at Phoenix Raceway? His record on short tracks throughout his career would certainly point that way. The 30-year-old Wisconsin native counts those types of tracks as his bread and butter and with the title race being held on the 1.0-mile oval in the Arizona desert, that short track prowess could be the advantage he and his No. 98 ThorSport Racing team to be able to hoist theRead More

By Luis Torres, Staff Writer AVONDALE, Ariz. — “Heim Time” is here to stay for the 2025 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series campaign. Heading into the NCTS Championship Race, Corey Heim enters Phoenix Raceway with another a shot at a championship and will be staying with TRICON Garage for a third year. Despite the controversy from last year’s Championship 4 finale where his clashes with Carson Hocevar are still burning in the back of many people’s minds, Heim takes Friday’s finale with a cool and calm approach as he gets a chanceRead More

By David Morgan, Associate Editor AVONDALE, Ariz. – It may have taken four overtimes to get there, but for the second time in the last three years, Ben Rhodes is a champion in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series. As the laps wound down in regulation, it was shaping up to be a race between Grant Enfinger and Rhodes to see which of the two would walk away with the title, but with three laps to go, everything changed. Corey Heim and Carson Hocevar, who had been involved in an incident earlierRead More