Corey Heim simply obliterated the competition in 2025. He won 4x as many races as his closest competition, scored nearly twice as many top fives, led 3x as many laps led, and ended the year with an average finish more than four places better than any other full-time driver.
To cap it all off, Heim drove from tenth to first in two overtime restarts (with four fresh tires), making up most of the ground with a single seven-wide pass in an incredible move by NASCAR’s newest champ.
Where does Heim’s season rank in the 30-year history of the NASCAR Truck Series? Unsurprisingly, it’s one of the best ever.
Corey Heim, TRICON Garage Toyota
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New record 12 wins — Beats 1999
Heim won 12 of 25 races this year, so nearly half the season. It’s the only time a driver has ever reached double digits in race wins at the Truck level, dethroning the 1999 record set by Greg Biffle, who won nine races. This included everything from intermediate tracks to road courses, short tracks, and several road courses.
New record 19 top fives — Beats 1996
Heim also collected 19 top fives during the 2025 season, which is yet another record. Previously, the best was 18 top fives by Ron Hornaday and Jack Sprague, who both did it during the second season of the NASCAR Truck Series in 1996. While the entire field wasn’t as close back then, those two drivers did reach 18 with a 24-race season, so to their credit, they may have matched Heim if they too had 25 events.
21 top tens — Not unprecedented
The one category where he isn’t rewriting history is top tens. While 21 top tens is impressive, it’s not history-making. Just last year, Christian Eckes reached 22, and we’ve seen several drivers get more than that over the years. There were four races where Heim failed to get a top ten: Atlanta, North Wilkesboro, Michigan, and Pocono. In all of them, he ran up front at some point during the race.
New record: 1,627 laps led — Beats 1996
Again going back to 1996 for a record now destroyed by Heim. The TRICON driver led 1,627 laps, which is the most ever seen in a single season of Truck Series competition. The record was previously held by Mike Skinner, who led 1,533 laps led that year (and still only finished third in points). Man, that year was a season of a giants.
Average finish — Best since 1996
Welcome back to 1996 once again, but this time, it’s a record Heim couldn’t quite eclipse. His average finish of 5.0 is incredible, and the best the sport has seen in decades. However, it’s not the best, period. You have to go all the way back to 1996 for when a driver ducked below 5.0 over the course of a single season, and that was Hornaday with an average finish of 4.5 on his way to securing the title.
23 lead lap finishes — Best since 2010
Another category some are overlooking are lead lap finishes. Outside of Atlanta where he was three laps down and Rockingham where he was one lap down, Heim has managed to finish on the lead lap in every other race this year. 23 out of 25 is the best we’ve seen since Johnny Sauter, 15 years ago.
New record: Leading at least one lap in every race — first time ever
Perhaps Heim’s most impressive statistic from the 2025 season. He managed to lead a lap in every single race this season, which is a feat never done before — but not just in Trucks. No driver in the history of NASCAR’s three national divisions of the sport has done that.
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