After 17 races featuring 10 different winners \u2013 including seven championship contenders it all comes down to Friday night\u2019s eero 250 at Richmond Raceway (7:30 p.m. ET, FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) to formally set the 10-driver NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Playoff field.<\/p>\n
Corey Heim and Layne Riggs have each won two of the last four races and come into Richmond riding solid momentum. Heim, the driver of the No. 11 TRICON Garage Toyota Tundra has turned in a season for the ages, winning a series best six races \u2013 triple that of any other fulltime competitor \u2013 and carries a 178-point advantage over Riggs in the standings, having already clinched the regular season championship weeks ago.<\/p>\n
Riggs and his Front Row Motorsports teammate Chandler Smith are the only other multiple-race winners, each collecting a pair of trophies and challenging for that runner-up position to Heim in the standings.<\/p>\n
Former NASCAR Xfinity Series champion Daniel Hemric, McAnally Hilgemann Racing\u2019s Tyler Ankrum, Spire Motorsports\u2019 Rajah Caruth and Halmar Friesen Racing\u2019s owner-driver Stewart Friesen are the other drivers with wins this season, although Friesen will not be competing for the driver\u2019s championship after sustaining major injuries in a Modified crash two weeks ago.<\/p>\n
That leaves four positions to be decided by the points standings and currently veteran Grant Enfinger, former series champ Ty Majeski, Kaden Honeycutt and Jake Garcia are above the cutoff line. Two-time series champion Ben Rhodes is only 11 points back from Garcia and rookie Giovani Ruggiero is only 21 points behind.<\/p>\n
Majeski is the defending race winner. Smith (2022) and Enfinger (2020) also have previous wins at the Richmond three-quarter miler. Smith has a pair of NASCAR Xfinity Series wins at Richmond too.<\/p>\n
Practice followed by Kennametal Pole Qualifying is set for 2:05 p.m. ET on Friday \u2013 available on FS2. Christian Eckes, who now races fulltime in the NASCAR Xfinity Series is the defending pole-winner. The outside polesitter (Majeski and Smith) has won two of the last three races.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After 17 races featuring 10 different winners \u2013 including seven championship contenders it all comes down to Friday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72216,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,718,2073,44833,12716,634,7576,582,721,82,926,723],"class_list":["post-72215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-craftsman-truck-series","tag-front-row-motorsports","tag-grant-enfinger","tag-motorsports","tag-nascar","tag-nascar-xfinity-series","tag-racing","tag-series","tag-sports","tag-toyota","tag-xfinity-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72215","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=72215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}