{"id":262863,"date":"2025-11-05T07:44:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T07:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/262863\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T07:44:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T07:44:19","slug":"nascar-awards-honor-champions-in-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/262863\/","title":{"rendered":"NASCAR Awards honor champions in Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"

PHOENIX \u2014 NASCAR officially capped off its season with the formal celebration of its season here national touring champions Tuesday evening at its annual NASCAR Awards Banquet.<\/p>\n

\"\"Photo: Dominic Aragon\/TRE<\/p>\n

The celebration honored Kyle Larson, Jesse Love, and Corey Heim at the JW Desert Ridge Marriott in Scottsdale, Ariz. along with other drivers and industry personnel.<\/p>\n

NASCAR TV personalities Adam Alexander and Kim Coon hosted the event, which was broadcasted on The NASCAR Channel.<\/p>\n

The Championship 4 in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, Xfinity, and Cup Series took the stage, with each champion giving a speech.<\/p>\n

Heim thanked his TRICON Garage team, agent, and members of his family.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"\"Photo: Ryan Kemna\/TRE<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you dad, for your unconditional support and belief in me since day one, and of course, thank you to my girlfriend Taylor for all the support,\u201d Heim said.<\/p>\n

Heim scored 12 victories en route to his first NASCAR Truck Series title.<\/p>\n

Love picked up three wins en route to his first series title.<\/p>\n

\"\"Photo: Franklin Romero\/TRE<\/p>\n

\u201cIt means the world to me, I don\u2019t really know what to say, but I know how I feel,\u201d Love said at the top of his speech.<\/p>\n

Love thanked God, his sponsors, members of his RCR team, his family, and gave a special mention to his father, Duke, getting emotional describing his support for him.<\/p>\n

Larson\u2019s three-win season and third-place finish at Phoenix on Sunday secured the best finish among the Cup Series Championship 4 and his second Cup Series championship.<\/p>\n

Photo: Franklin Romero\/TRE<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a year, standing over here tonight, it really hits me how hard this is to do, and how many people it takes to make it happy,\u201d Larson said. <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m beyond grateful to be here, surrounded by the people who made this season, what it is.\u201d<\/p>\n

Larson thanked his family for their support, and his Hendrick Motorsports team for their season-long efforts.<\/p>\n

The banquet has been hosted in various cities over the years.<\/p>\n

NASCAR held a formal ceremony in New York City from 1981 to 2008.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The ceremony then moved to Las Vegas in 2009, concluding its run in Sin City in 2018.<\/p>\n

The banquet then moved to Nashville from 2019 through 2023.<\/p>\n

Last year, the awards ceremony was held in Charlotte, North Carolina.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Dominic Aragon is currently the editor-in-chief for The Racing Experts.<\/p>\n

From Grants, New Mexico, USA, Aragon started watching NASCAR in 2004 and has been covering the sport since 2009. Aragon is a 2012 graduate of Grants High School and a May 2016 graduate of the University of New Mexico with a B.A. in Mass Communications & Journalism. Aragon has worked in local and national media, as a musician, and an educator. He is co-author of the 2024 book “All of It: Daytona 500 Champion Tells the Rest of the Story” with racer Geoff Bodine.<\/p>\n

Aragon, his wife Feliz, and son Christopher currently reside in Grants, New Mexico, USA.<\/p>\n

You can reach Dominic at daragon@theracingexperts.net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX \u2014 NASCAR officially capped off its season with the formal celebration of its season here national touring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-262863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}