Ty Majeski held off Grant Enfinger, Corey Heim and Christian Eckes to win his first NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Championship Friday night at Phoenix Raceway.
The championship run comes in Majeski’s second appearance in the Championship 4 in just his third full-time national series campaign. It also marks ThorSport Racing’s sixth Truck Series title, the most of any organization in the series.
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“This is so much fun racing with this group,” Majeski said. “So proud to have the opportunity to drive these great race trucks. There’s a lot of times in my career where this looks like a far dream, and [team owners] Duke and Rhonda [Thorson] really gave me my third opportunity after I had two opportunities that failed. I can’t thank them enough.”
Majeski came on the scene late as a 2024 championship contender, winning back-to-back races at Indianapolis Raceway Park and Richmond Raceway to close out the regular season.
The driver from Seymour, Wisconsin, went winless through the Truck Series postseason, pointing his way through the rounds leading up to the Phoenix finale, propelled by runner-up finishes at Milwaukee and Homestead.
Majeski made his Truck Series debut in 2019, driving for Niece Motorsports at Phoenix for one start before joining the team for 15 starts the following season.
In 2021, he moved to a part-time role with ThorSport Racing, scattering a pair of top 10s across four races. He would get the full-time call for the 2022 season, driving the No. 98 for ThorSport and riding a two-win campaign to his first Championship 4 appearance.
“It’s been a long road here,” Majeski said. “These people behind me, everybody at Ford, really gave me another opportunity when my career looked like it could have ended, and they brought me on as an engineer in 2021 with a few races and turned into a full-time deal. We made our first Championship 4 in ’22, and now we’re sitting here as champions.”
ThorSport Racing also became the first team in Truck Series history to have multiple back-to-back driver championships after Ben Rhodes won last year and Matt Crafton went back-to-back in 2013-14.
Majeski adds to the lore for the team owned by Duke and Rhonda Thorson that was established in 1996 and is run out of Sandusky, Ohio.
All five of Majeski’s career Truck wins entering Friday’s championship race have come with ThorSport, along with 44 top-10 finishes in 72 races.