The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Playoffs Championship 4 field is set after Corey Heim took his 11th victory of the year Friday at Martinsville Speedway.
Heim, 23, won two of three races in the Round of 8, having already secured his Championship 4 bid with a win three weeks ago at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval.
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Defending series champion Ty Majeski also advanced to the final round with a seventh-place finish, and ninth place was good enough for Tyler Ankrum to compete for a title next Friday night at Phoenix Raceway (7:30 p.m. ET, FS1, NRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
Finishing second in an overtime attempt, Kaden Honeycutt took the fourth and final spot in the Championship 4 by winning a tiebreaker over Layne Riggs, the first driver to miss out.
“It all kind of started with that missed shift on that restart,” Riggs said. “I’m not really sure what happened. I’ve never missed a shift in a truck in my whole career. We do have some new transmissions and I guess I’m just not quite used to them yet, so I’m pretty upset about that. I think things could have been a lot different, but it all started at the Roval and getting turned around on Lap 1. We go to Talladega and having all the issues we had. I’m definitely dejected. I would have been dejected if we were even in fourth. I just don’t like it.”
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Grant Enfinger, Daniel Hemric and Rajah Caruth were the other three eliminated drivers.
Caruth’s title hopes came to an end on Lap 73 when contact with Honeycutt exiting Turn 4 caused the left-rear tire to go down on his No. 71 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet. He then spun into the Turn 1 wall, ultimately ending his night with a 34th-place result.
