Corey Heim merely obliterated the competitors in 2025. He gained 4x as many races as his closest competitors, scored practically twice as many prime fives, led 3x as many laps led, and ended the yr with a median end greater than 4 locations higher than another full-time driver.
To cap all of it off, Heim drove from tenth to first in two extra time restarts (with 4 contemporary tires), making up many of the floor with a single seven-wide cross in an unimaginable transfer by NASCAR’s latest champ.
The place does Heim’s season rank within the 30-year historical past of the NASCAR Truck Collection? Unsurprisingly, it is among the best ever.
Corey Heim, TRICON Storage Toyota
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New report 12 wins — Beats 1999
Heim gained 12 of 25 races this yr, so practically half the season. It is the one time a driver has ever reached double digits in race wins on the Truck stage, dethroning the 1999 report set by Greg Biffle, who gained 9 races. This included the whole lot from intermediate tracks to highway programs, quick tracks, and a number of other highway programs.
New report 19 prime fives — Beats 1996
Heim additionally collected 19 prime fives in the course of the 2025 season, which is yet one more report. Beforehand, the perfect was 18 prime fives by Ron Hornaday and Jack Sprague, who each did it in the course of the second season of the NASCAR Truck Collection in 1996. Whereas your complete discipline wasn’t as shut again then, these two drivers did attain 18 with a 24-race season, so to their credit score, they could have matched Heim in the event that they too had 25 occasions.
21 prime tens — Not unprecedented
The one class the place he is not rewriting historical past is prime tens. Whereas 21 prime tens is spectacular, it is not history-making. Simply final yr, Christian Eckes reached 22, and we have seen a number of drivers get greater than that over time. There have been 4 races the place Heim did not get a prime ten: Atlanta, North Wilkesboro, Michigan, and Pocono. In all of them, he ran up entrance in some unspecified time in the future in the course of the race.
New report: 1,627 laps led — Beats 1996
Once more going again to 1996 for a report now destroyed by Heim. The TRICON driver led 1,627 laps, which is probably the most ever seen in a single season of Truck Collection competitors. The report was beforehand held by Mike Skinner, who led 1,533 laps led that yr (and nonetheless solely completed third in factors). Man, that yr was a season of a giants.
Common end — Finest since 1996
Welcome again to 1996 as soon as once more, however this time, it is a report Heim could not fairly eclipse. His common end of 5.0 is unimaginable, and the perfect the game has seen in a long time. Nonetheless, it is not the perfect, interval. You need to go all the way in which again to 1996 for when a driver ducked under 5.0 over the course of a single season, and that was Hornaday with a median end of 4.5 on his option to securing the title.
23 lead lap finishes — Finest since 2010
One other class some are overlooking are lead lap finishes. Exterior of Atlanta the place he was three laps down and Rockingham the place he was one lap down, Heim has managed to complete on the lead lap in each different race this yr. 23 out of 25 is the perfect we have seen since Johnny Sauter, 15 years in the past.
New report: Main not less than one lap in each race — first time ever
Maybe Heim’s most spectacular statistic from the 2025 season. He managed to guide a lap in each single race this season, which is a feat by no means finished earlier than — however not simply in Vehicles. No driver within the historical past of NASCAR’s three nationwide divisions of the game has finished that.
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