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RFK Racing announced Friday afternoon that Brad Keselowski underwent successful surgery after suffering a broken leg during a ski trip on Thursday with his family.

The news came from the RFK Racing team that he co-owns and drives for in the NASCAR Cup Series. The organization indicated the 41-year-old veteran aims to be ready in time for the season-opening Daytona 500 on Feb. 15 (2:30 p.m. ET, FOX, HBO Max, MRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

RELATED: Keselowski’s season in review | 2026 schedule

“I’m grateful for the medical team who took great care of me and for the support system around me,” Keselowski said in a statement. “My attention now is fully on recovery. I’m motivated to get back to full strength as quickly as possible and will work relentlessly to be ready for Daytona.”

<blockquote class=”twitter-tweet”><p lang=”en” dir=”ltr”>Life has a way of reminding you to slow down. Grateful for my family by my side, an excellent medical team, and the ability to take a few steps forward today. Focused on Daytona. Bonus – I&#39;m now bionic! <a href=”https://t.co/AZD2ejHGgc”>pic.twitter.com/AZD2ejHGgc</a></p>&mdash; Brad Keselowski (@keselowski) <a href=”https://twitter.com/keselowski/status/2002134049801056703?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>December 19, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src=”https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js” charset=”utf-8″></script>

Keselowski, the 2012 Cup Series champion, finished 20th in last season’s Cup Series standings with six top-five finishes that included three runner-up efforts. He enters the 2026 season seven starts shy of 600 for his Cup Series career.

Keselowski became part-owner of the organization founded by Jack Roush in the summer of 2021, and the team relaunched as RFK Racing for the next season. RFK expanded to a three-car operation last season, with Ryan Preece joining the group as a new teammate to Keselowski and Chris Buescher.

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Emotions and tributes from the motorsports community poured in after the news that NASCAR veteran Greg Biffle and his family were among the seven on board in a fatal plane crash Thursday in Statesville, North Carolina.

RELATED: Greg Biffle, 1969-2025 | All of Biffle’s Cup Series wins

Biffle’s influence spanned his successful racing career, which included 56 victories in NASCAR’s three national series and his addition to the list of NASCAR’s 75 Greatest Drivers. But his impact extended beyond the motorsports world with his lifesaving efforts to bring relief to Western North Carolina after the devastation left by Hurricane Helene in September 2024.

Here is a selection of the tributes and remembrances of Greg Biffle, from the motorsports world and beyond.

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Editor’s note: This is the 24th in a series in which we review the top 30 drivers in the NASCAR Cup Series in reverse order of the 2025 final standings.

Driver: Joey Logano, No. 22 Team Penske Ford
Crew chief: Paul Wolfe
Final 2025 ranking: 7th
Key stats: 1 win, 7 top fives, 13 top 10s, 2 poles, 577 laps led

How 2025 ended: After winning two of the three previous NASCAR Cup Series championships (2022 and 2024), Logano had an uncharacteristic off-year in 2025, finishing seventh. However, he came on strong during the 10-race playoffs, with four top fives and two other top-10 finishes, advancing to the third-round semifinals before he was eliminated in the Championship 4 season finale. Even though he finished a respectable seventh, statistically it was his overall worst-performing season with the fewest wins (tie), top fives (tie) and top 10s (tie) since 2012.

Best race: Logano had two best races in 2025. There was his lone win of the season with the playoff qualifying victory in the spring race at Texas Motor Speedway, where he led just seven laps to take the checkered flag. But from a dominating standpoint, his fourth-place finish in the Loudon playoff race was his best overall performance, starting from the pole and leading a season-high 147 laps before trailing off in the closing laps.

RELATED: 2026 Cup Series schedule | Joey Logano driver page

Other season highlights: Logano finished the year with a fourth-place finish in the season-ending race at Phoenix Raceway, but it unfortunately was too little, too late, as he had been eliminated from potentially earning the fourth Cup championship of his career a week earlier at Martinsville Speedway. … Logano ended with a top-10 finish for the ninth time in the past 11 seasons.

Stat to know: Track position was arguably Logano’s biggest problem in 2025. He failed to lead even one lap in 19 of the season’s 36 points-paying races, including a 15-race stretch from the spring race at Charlotte to the playoff opener at Darlington, where he failed to lead a lap in 11 of those events.

Quotable:  Two quotes pretty much summed up how 2025 turned out. After he was eliminated from advancing to the Championship 4 at Martinsville, Logano said, “We didn’t deserve it.” And when asked about weaknesses and deficiencies of the overall season, particularly inconsistency and failure to execute when he needed to, Logano admitted, “We just weren’t good enough.”

Looking ahead: When it comes to bouncing back from disappointing seasons, history has been on Logano’s side, particularly with winning championships the following season. After finishing 17th and not making the playoffs in 2017, he roared back to win his first Cup crown the following year. Then, after finishing eighth in 2021, he won his second championship in 2022. And when he dipped down to a 12th-place finish in 2023 (when teammate Ryan Blaney earned his first Cup championship), Logano scored his third Cup title in 2024. So if history once again repeats itself, he should be in contention to win his fourth Cup title in 2026.

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Legacy Motor Club announced Thursday that seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson will race in the season-opening Daytona 500, driving the No. 84 Carvana Toyota in the 2026 “Great American Race.”

The organization revealed the design of the owner/driver’s entry on Thursday morning, highlighting the fifth year of Johnson’s partnership with Carvana with halo accents and neon details in the paint scheme. He’ll attempt to make the field as an open, non-chartered entry in a bid for his 23rd Daytona 500 start on Feb. 15, 2026 (2:30 p.m. ET, FOX, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, HBO Max).

RELATED: 2026 Cup Series schedule | Silly Season’s key players

“Carvana has been an incredible partner, and every season we’ve found new ways to celebrate what makes racing so special,” Johnson said in a release provided by the team. “This year’s scheme is sharp, it’s fresh, and I can’t wait for fans to see it on the track in Daytona.”

Johnson, 50, is now scheduled for two part-time starts next year, with the potential for more. He previously announced his intentions to enter the inaugural Cup Series race in San Diego on June 21 at Naval Base Coronado, competing just a half-hour’s drive from his hometown of El Cajon, California.

Johnson has raced a partial Cup Series schedule the last three seasons. He retired from full-time competition after the 2020 season, amassing a record-tying seven titles and 83 victories — figures that earned him a landslide election to the NASCAR Hall of Fame’s Class of 2024.

Johnson sits at exactly 700 Cup Series starts, reaching that milestone in last year’s Coca-Cola 600. His only other appearance on the Cup grid last season came in the Daytona 500, where he collected a respectable third-place finish.

MORE: Most all-time Cup Series starts

Johnson is a two-time winner of the “Great American Race,” prevailing for the first time in 2006 as a springboard to his first Cup Series championship. His second 500 victory came in 2013, a year in which he made a season sweep of Cup events at Daytona International Speedway.

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Editor’s note: This is the 23rd in a series in which we review the top 30 drivers in the NASCAR Cup Series in reverse order of the 2025 final standings.

Driver: Chase Elliott, No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet
Crew chief: Alan Gustafson
Final 2025 ranking: 8th
Key stats: 2 wins, 11 top fives, 19 top 10s, 454 laps led

How 2025 ended: Elliott qualified for the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs for the ninth time in his 10-year career, winning the Kansas Speedway postseason race in the Round of 12 and earning six top-10 finishes during the 10-race playoff stretch. Elliott was eliminated from a shot at his second championship, finishing third at Martinsville Speedway in the Round of 8 finale behind his Hendrick teammates William Byron and Kyle Larson, who both advanced to the championship bout. A 10th-place finish in the Phoenix Raceway finale placed Elliott eighth in the championship final standings.

Best race: A last-lap pass at EchoPark Speedway (formerly Atlanta Motor Speedway) in June thrilled a sold-out crowd and earned Elliott his second career Cup Series victory at his “home” track. Although it was a dramatic last-lap pass that earned the trophy at Atlanta, Elliott led 41 laps on the day at the 1.5-miler and snapped a 44-race winless streak.

RELATED: 2026 Cup Series schedule | Chase Elliott driver page

Other season highlights: The 2025 season marked the first time Elliott won multiple races since 2022. However, his best race statistically came in a sixth-place finish after leading 238 of 407 laps at Dover Motor Speedway.  His six-race top-10 showing in the 10-race playoff stretch was certainly a sign that the No. 9 team was prepared for a real fight for the championship. Three times Elliott strung together three consecutive top-10 runs, including an impressive stretch in the playoffs at three vastly different venues; he scored fifth at the one-mile New Hampshire Motor Speedway, tallied a win at the Kansas 1.5-miler and landed eighth at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval.

Stat to know: Remarkably, Elliott’s final season statistics beyond the two wins — his 11 top fives and 19 top-10 finishes — exactly match his 2024 output. His 454 laps led were his most out front since 2022. His 12.6 average finish was impressive, considering his 16.1 average start was the second-lowest of his career (17.3 in 2023).

Quotable: “The way I’ve kind of progressed through the playoffs this year is just to fight as hard as I can each week, try to earn myself and our team three more weeks, and you never know what can happen in three weeks. … That can be the difference in somebody being mediocre to potentially getting on a hot streak or even a team collectively getting better throughout that course of time.” — Elliott said of his 2025 playoff strategy.

Looking ahead: The good news for Elliott is that his Hendrick Motorsports organization earned its series-record 15th Cup Series championship. The tough news is that it wasn’t Elliott but his teammate, Larson, hoisting the trophy this season. A multi-time winner for the sixth time in his career and first time in three years, Elliott and Alan Gustafson, his longtime crew chief, finished the year feeling optimistic about their progress. Elliott led the most laps since 2022 and advanced to the Round of 8, all positive progress for a former series champion who enters every year expecting to claim another trophy and showing up on the grid with all the resources to do so.

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NASCAR Cup Series rookie Connor Zilisch is set to compete in IMSA’s Rolex 24 next month, officially joining the Action Express Racing group for the 2026 season opener at Daytona International Speedway.

Zilisch will make his third consecutive start in the twice-around-the-clock endurance classic, but his first in the premier GTP class. He’ll drive the No. 31 Cadillac Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R as a teammate to Earl Bamber, Jack Aitken and Frederik Vesti on Jan. 24-25, 2026.

RELATED: 2026 Rolex 24 entry list | Zilisch, Allmendinger test at Daytona

“I’m excited to be with Action Express Racing for the Rolex 24 at Daytona,” Zilisch said. “The Rolex 24 is one of my favorite races, and I’m thrilled to be with one of the best teams in the IMSA paddock. I’m very thankful to everyone at GM and Cadillac Racing for their help in making this happen. This is such a cool opportunity. We had a solid test in November at Daytona. I really enjoyed working with all the guys on the Whelen team and can’t wait to get back there for the race.”

Zilisch will move to the Cup Series next season as a Sunoco Rookie of the Year candidate for Trackhouse Racing in the No. 88 Chevrolet. The 19-year-old driver’s rise to NASCAR’s top division comes after a sensational campaign with JR Motorsports in the Xfinity Series, where he won a tour-best 10 races and placed second in the final standings.

Zilisch’s Rolex 24 debut as a 17-year-old standout was a winning one, co-driving an Era Motorsport entry to victory in 2024 in the Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) class. Last year’s effort came in the Grand Touring Daytona Pro (GTD PRO) class, driving the Trackhouse by TF Sport Corvette Z06 GT3.R with current NASCAR teammate Shane van Gisbergen, IndyCar star Scott McLaughlin and veteran sports-car racer Ben Keating.

“The first time I came to Daytona racing was in (Mazda) MX-5 Cup, and I’ve loved it ever since,” Zilisch said, “and just being able to race in the 24 hours is something that I dreamed of as a kid, and that’s why I always come back and keep doing it. And, you know, it’s my third time doing it and my third different car that I’ve done it in. I’m just excited for the opportunity to even be here today and get this chance to test the car. It’s been such a dream of mine to get to drive in the highest class of IMSA, and doing that today has been really cool.”

MORE: 2026 IMSA schedule

The Action Express team — managed by veteran racing executive Gary Nelson — was a winner its last time out, claiming victory in the Motul Petit Le Mans 10-hour season finale at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta last October. The organization finished second in last year’s IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for GTP cars and is a seven-time champion in the Michelin North American Endurance Cup.

Cadillac will have a three-car lineup for the 2026 schedule, with two entries from Wayne Taylor Racing and one from Action Express.

This year’s Rolex 24 is slated for a full grid of 61 cars racing in three classes. On-track preparations for the 24-hour race begin Jan. 16-18 with the Roar before the Rolex 24 event on the 3.56-mile Daytona course.

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — NASCAR Studios today announced “Kid Racers,” an original feature-length documentary capturing one of the most raw, electric, and little-known corners of American motorsports. The film debuts Wednesday, Dec. 17, at 7 p.m. ET, airing live and exclusively on The NASCAR Channel.

Filmed at the legendary Millbridge Speedway in Salisbury, North Carolina, “Kid Racers” follows five families and their fearless 8-and 9-year-old racers as they chase dreams on a red-clay track that has become a proving ground for NASCAR’s next generation. These kids, fresh out of car seats and already piloting winged Outlaw karts at 45–55 miles per hour, go head-to-head with the children of NASCAR greats, including Kyle Busch, Kyle Larson and Clint Bowyer. At Millbridge, the message is universal: “If you can win here, you can win anywhere.”

“‘Kid Racers’ shines a light on one of the most authentic and emotionally charged corners of our sport, where passion is born, families rally together, and the next generation of NASCAR talent takes shape,” said John Dahl, NASCAR senior vice president of content. “This documentary captures the heart of our sport, and we’re proud to debut it on The NASCAR Channel.”

The film spotlights five unforgettable young competitors:

• Tanner Tucker, the fierce 2022 season champion carrying his father’s unfinished NASCAR dream.
• Giselle Hicks, a fourth-generation racer learning to rise above doubt in a male-dominated class.
• Jackson Darnell, the analytical “nicest guy on the track,” with the instincts of a future broadcaster.
• Gabe Yacono, the track’s beloved sportsman, racing for the joy and community it brings.
• Chase DeMarco, a multi-talented racer and diehard fan overcoming late-season setbacks.

“Kid Racers” is directed by Cynthia Hill, the Peabody Award–winning and Emmy-nominated filmmaker known for several documentary projects including: “A chef’s Life,” “Burden of Proof,” “Road to Raceday”, and “What happened, Brittany Murphy?” It is executive produced by Tim Clark, John Dahl and Tally Hair from NASCAR Studios, and produced by Sandra Davidson.

The NASCAR Channel is NASCAR’s free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) network. It offers 24/7 programming with no subscription required and is available on The Roku Channel, Xumo Play, Tubi, Samsung TV Plus and Prime Video.

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Editor’s note: This is the 22nd in a series in which we review the top 30 drivers in the NASCAR Cup Series in reverse order of the 2025 final standings.

Driver: Tyler Reddick, No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota
Crew Chief: Billy Scott
Final 2025 Ranking: 9th
Key Stats: 0 wins, 7 top fives, 14 top 10s, 169 laps led

How 2025 ended: The 2024 Regular Season Champion netted five finishes of 11th or better in the final six races of 2025, leading the No. 45 group toward a better conclusion of a shaky season. Much of Reddick’s focus shifted away from racing through the final month of the season as off-track priorities — namely the health of his newborn son, Rookie — took precedence over anything on the track. Nonetheless, with his son now in better health, Reddick returned to the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs for the fifth consecutive season and finished the year inside the top 10 in the final standings for the third consecutive season.

Best race: Reddick was twice a runner-up in 2025, placing second both in the season-opening Daytona 500 as well as the playoff-opening Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway. Of the two races, Darlington was where Reddick shone most, consistently pressuring eventual race winner Chase Briscoe for the crown-jewel victory before settling for the second spot. Reddick’s evasive maneuvers led him through a last-lap crash at Daytona in February, narrowly avoiding a spinning Denny Hamlin and giving chase to William Byron, who prevailed in the “Great American Race” for the second straight year.

RELATED: 2026 Cup Series schedule | Tyler Reddick driver page

Other season highlights: Reddick had a front-row seat to an electric finish at Circuit of The Americas, where he won the pole and finished third after a fierce battle between Kyle Busch, Christopher Bell and William Byron resulted in a win for Bell. The No. 45 car was also up front for 42 laps in the spring race at Darlington, leading to a fourth-place finish. A three-race stretch through the summer produced consecutive top-six finishes for Reddick at EchoPark Speedway (fourth), the Chicago Street Course (third) and Sonoma Raceway (sixth).

Stat to know: Reddick’s average finish of 14.5 was tied for seventh-best with William Byron in 2025, proving the No. 45 was firmly in the mix all season. However, Reddick’s other stats took a notable step back in 2025, going winless and posting his fewest top fives, poles and laps led since 2021 and his fewest top 10s since 2022.

Quotable: “My focus was not on racing at all, but I felt like we were still able to go out and perform well. I was able to, in a very condensed way, look back at my notes, do sim. Only a couple times through the process was I able to do some preparation, which, again, wasn’t a high priority. Things just fell in the right place, where I was able to still go race. But, yeah, I mean, in a lot of ways, it’s hard to say how it affected my performance because racing was the last thing on my mind for a long period of time.” – Reddick on racing through his son Rookie’s health concerns.

Looking ahead: Although the No. 45 team statistically regressed in 2025, there’s plenty of reason to believe Reddick will be back to winning form in 2026. Six of his seven top fives in 2025 came on different styles of tracks, collecting multiple top fives at Darlington while also placing there at a traditional superspeedway (Daytona), a 1.5-mile superspeedway (EchoPark), street course (Chicago), road course (COTA) and intermediate (Las Vegas). This year marked Reddick’s first winless season since 2021, but the No. 45 team showed impressive resolve under unusual circumstances, particularly late in the season. Expect Reddick to contend for a deep playoff run again in 2026.

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Editor’s note: This is the 21st in a series in which we review the top 30 drivers in the NASCAR Cup Series in reverse order of the 2025 final standings. 

Driver: Ross Chastain, No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet
Crew chief: Phil Surgen
Final 2025 ranking: 10th
Key stats: 1 win, 4 top fives, 12 top 10s, 83 laps led 

How 2025 ended: After missing the Cup Series Playoffs last year, Ross Chastain powered his No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet back into the postseason following his win in the Coca-Cola 600 on Memorial Day Weekend at Charlotte, which turned out to be his only victory of the 2025 season. The native of Alva, Florida, made it to the Round of 12 before getting eliminated from the playoffs after the chaotic final lap of the Charlotte Roval cutoff race. Chastain made contact with Denny Hamlin in the frontstretch chicane at the Roval to get a spot he needed to keep his title hopes alive, but he ended up spinning them both out and ultimately watched his playoff run conclude on the Charlotte frontstretch in reverse across the start/finish line. Still, at the end of the year, Chastain was the top Trackhouse driver in the final standings in 10th, ahead of teammates Shane van Gisbergen (12th) and Daniel Suárez (29th).  

Best race: On Lap 395 of the Coca-Cola 600, Chastain made a move to the inside on William Byron in Turns 1 and 2 to take the lead, as his No. 1 Chevrolet led the final six laps at Charlotte to score his sixth career Cup Series victory and first crown-jewel win. The path to Victory Lane at the 1.5-mile North Carolina intermediate track was not an easy one because Chastain was in a backup car after crashing in the Saturday practice session, due to a left-rear tire going down, which caused his car to spin in Turn 3 and hit the wall. As a result, Trackhouse team members worked into the early hours of Sunday morning at the shop to ensure that Chastain’s car was ready to go racing for 600 miles deep into Sunday night. Chastain went on to make history by becoming the first driver to win from an official starting position of last place (40th) since the late Hall of Famer Bobby Allison in 1969 at Richmond Fairgrounds, per NASCAR Insights. 

RELATED: 2026 Cup Series schedule | Ross Chastain driver page 

Other season highlights: Chastain persevered to the runner-up position at Texas, despite being critical of his No. 1 Trackhouse Chevrolet’s lack of speed in qualifying after starting 31st. He also got into a feud with Joey Logano on numerous occasions at Martinsville, Chicago and Dover before both drivers decided to bury the hatchet and move on from their on-track disagreements. 

Stat to know: For the first time since the start of his Trackhouse tenure in 2022, Chastain led fewer than 100 laps. The driver of the No. 1 Chevrolet led 83 laps in nine of 36 races. 

Quotable: “It is just conversations. And I’m not gonna let one bad instance get in the way of a lot of good times. One bad time is not gonna affect that for me, and Daniel and I’s relationship will survive. I wrecked him, I mean, he should be upset, that team should be upset. So I went to the crew chief and him, and wanted them to make sure they knew that they knew. I wanted to make sure that, like, it was the last thing I wanted to do. And for the first half of the brake zone, I thought I was fine. And then the second half of the brake zone, I realized I’m going too fast, and I should have reacted better, and I didn’t. So that’s just a non-negotiable to wrecking, spinning teammates out. We had conversations this week.” — Chastain expressed regret for spinning Trackhouse teammate Suárez at Sonoma. 

Looking ahead: Chastain will return to the No. 1 Chevrolet in 2026, but crew chief Surgen is moving on to a different role within the organization. On Nov. 7, Trackhouse named Brandon McSwain the new crew chief for Chastain. McSwain comes over from Hendrick Motorsports after working as a race engineer on Byron’s No. 24 team. With a new voice atop the box in McSwain, this organizational change could be the spark Chastain needs to get back toward the front of the field more consistently and lead laps. 

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Editor’s note: This is a roundup in which we review the 2025 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season. Check out our index of 2025 driver recaps. 

2025 Craftsman Truck Series Champion: Corey Heim
2025 Regular Season Champion: Corey Heim
Full-time winners: 8 (Corey Heim, 12; Layne Riggs, 3; Chandler Smith, 2; Tyler Ankrum, 1; Rajah Caruth, 1; Daniel Hemric, 1; Giovanni Ruggiero, 1; Stewart Friesen, 1)
Wins by team: Tricon Garage, 13; Front Row Motorsports, 5; Spire Motorsports, 4; McAnally-Hilgemann Racing, 2; Halmar Friesen Racing, 1

How 2025 ended: A 2025 campaign defined by utter dominance concluded electrically for Corey Heim and the No. 11 Tricon Garage team during the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Championship at Phoenix Raceway. In what has a claim to be the clutchest NASCAR Overtime restart ever, the Marietta, Georgia, native vaulted from 10th to second in one fell swoop, erasing a pit-road deficit that resulted from a four-tire call. Out-maneuvering 2024 champion Ty Majeski followed, and just like that, Heim cashed in with win No. 12 and his first title triumph. Championship near-misses in years prior (Heim finished third and runner-up in the title standings in 2023 and 2024, respectively) were avenged, and history was achieved; Heim’s 12 wins are the most ever in a single season, and, at 23 years old, now coincidentally has 23 Truck Series wins to his ledger, already the sixth-most all-time. Poetry tends to rhyme, and, well, it was Heim’s time.

RELATED: 2025 Craftsman Truck Series standings

Best race: After matching Greg Biffle for the most wins in a single season via his ninth victory of 2025 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in September, the next logical step was for Heim to surpass that mark. He did so the very next race. After a first-lap wreck brought calamity, Heim stayed level, rallied and wheeled his heavily-taped No. 11 machine to Victory Lane at the Charlotte Motor Speedway Roval after staying out during a critical overtime restart. History was now his, and, as we’d see the rest of the way, even more history was to be etched into the Truck Series annals for good.

Other season highlights: While Heim was 2025’s focal point, he wasn’t the only season highlight. Despite not making the Championship 4, Layne Riggs’ sophomore campaign was a sound one, tallying career highs in wins (three), top fives (13) and top-10 finishes (16). 19-year-old rookie Gio Ruggiero scooped up his first career national series win following an overtime finish at Talladega Superspeedway. In its national series return for the first time since 2013, Rockingham Speedway saw Tyler Ankrum snap a 130-race winless streak, the longest drought broken in Truck Series history. Then there was Lime Rock Park, with the Connecticut road course hosting its first national series race. 2025 definitely lived up to the billing.

Stat to know: Heim has led in 26 consecutive races dating back to 2024, the longest streak all time. Heim led 1,625 circuits in 2025, lapping the field (no pun intended), with the next closest competitor being 1,128 legs behind the mark (Layne Riggs, 497). With this dominance, Heim already ranks sixth all-time in Truck Series laps led (2,989).

Quotable: “It’s such a team effort at the end of the day. Like, those guys have consistently set me up with winning equipment, and Scott (Zipadelli, No. 11 crew chief), being the captain of the team, he’s been the guy to keep that whole crew together since 2023. We’ve had literally every single person other than pit crew together on that 11 crew from the middle of 2023, so it’s obviously guys that want to work for him. It’s really a big family, honestly. It feels like a family, and I want it to be remembered that way.” — Corey Heim on No. 11 team’s accomplishments.

MORE: 2026 Craftsman Truck Series schedule | Buy tickets

Looking ahead: Excitement is in the air for 2026. A fourth manufacturer — Ram — will enter the Truck Series fray with Kaulig Racing next season, with five trucks carrying the new banner. In addition to Chicagoland Speedway returning, new track venues, including St. Petersburg and Naval Base Coronado, will be on the schedule. And while the Truck Series roster is nowhere near finalized (Heim included), whatever is solidified will surely bring variability and competition that fans will be eager to watch.