COREY HEIM OF MARIETTA, GA – MOTORSPORT AMERICA FILE PHOTO
Pit strategy doesn’t go Heim’s way as he earns his fifth straight Top-10 finish.
ROCKINGHAM, N.C. (April 18, 2025) – Corey Heim led 52 laps and led
Toyota with an eighth-place finish in the NASCAR Truck Series’ return
to Rockingham Speedway on Friday evening. His teammate and fellow Toyota
Development Driver, Gio Ruggiero, had another strong run and scored his
second straight top-10 finish.
Heim continues to lead the point standings as the Truck Series takes
next weekend off before returning to Texas Motor Speedway on May 2.
Toyota Racing Post-Race Recap
NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series (NCTS)
Rockingham Speedway
Race 7 of 23 – 188 Miles, 200 Laps
TOYOTA FINISHING POSITIONS
_1st, Tyler Ankrum*__ ___
_2nd,__ Jake Garcia*_
_3rd, Daniel Hemric* ___
_4th, Rajah Caruth* ___
_5th, Grant Enfinger*___
8th, COREY HEIM
10th, GIO RUGGIERO
17th, BRANDON JONES
18th, TONI BREIDINGER
21st, TIMMY HILL
28th, TANNER GRAY
29th, STEWART FRIESEN
34th, JUSTIN CARROLL
_*non-Toyota driver _
TOYOTA QUOTES
COREY HEIM, No. 11 Safelite Toyota Tundra TRD Pro, TRICON Garage
Finishing Position: 8th
_How do you reflect on this one?___
“Yeah, I don’t know. I thought we were really good all day. I had a
really good Tundra TRD Pro. Huge thank you to Safelite, Toyota, TRICON
for all of their efforts. I felt like if we had the track position we
would have been in really good shape from the very start. Just didn’t
have a good qualifying effort on my end. It was kind of an uphill battle
from there all day. I didn’t exactly know what happened there the last
40 laps there, but we pitted, and it seems like some of the other guys
didn’t run of fuel. Unfortunate. Just a weird deal in that last stage
but have to be better on my part to qualifying better and have the track
position – again, big thank you to TRICON Garage, Safelite and Toyota
for all of their efforts.”
GIO RUGGIERO, No. 17 First Auto Group Toyota Tundra TRD Pro, TRICON Garage
Finishing Position: 10th
_Second straight top-10 for you. How was racing at The Rock? ___
“It was pretty cool. I had a lot of fun racing here today. Super fast
track. We were out front for a while. I thought our First Auto Group
Tundra drove really good in clear air. We definitely improved on a
couple of things, so we have a lot of great momentum moving into the
next one.”
STEWART FRIESEN, No. 52 Halmar International Toyota Tundra TRD Pro, Halmar Friesen Racing
Finishing Position: 29th
_What was your perspective?___
“Big thank you to all of my guys. I was trying to go wide open in
qualifying and kissed the wall. They did a really good job putting it
back together – it was just as fast as it ended practice. Was just
trying to bide our time. Saw Rajah (Caruth) get loose, tried to check-up
as much as I could, and then just got run over. It is what it is.”
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