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Track: Nashville Superspeedway
Location: Lebanon, Tennessee
Track length: 1.33 miles
When: Sunday, 7 p.m. ET
Where to tune in: Prime Video, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio
Race purse: $11,055,250
Race distance: 300 laps | 399 miles
Stages: 90 | 185 | 300
Defending winner: Joey Logano, June 2024
Starting lineup: Chase Briscoe on pole

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Nashville sets stage for regular-season run to postseason

Just like that, half of the regular season is over. It’s June, and Nashville Superspeedway is ready to propel the NASCAR Cup Series into the second half of the run to the playoffs.

Ross Chastain assured his spot in the 2025 postseason with a win at the Coca-Cola 600 one week ago, and there’s a strong chance he backs that up Sunday at Nashville, where he wheeled the No. 1 to Victory Lane in 2023 and was in contention late in 2024. But there are other big names with big teams and big dreams eager to win and secure that playoff position as Race No. 14 of 26 inches toward the green flag.

MORE: Cup Series standings | Full 2025 schedule

Team Penske’s Ryan Blaney ranks sixth in laps led (200), seventh in points (363) and eighth in average running position (14.43). Yet his 17.8 average finish is tied with two others for 14th-best, sunken by a series-high five DNFs through 13 races. Nashville has proven to be hit or miss for Blaney: In four starts, the No. 12 Ford has finished inside the top 10 twice (third, 2022; sixth, 2024) and crashed out twice (2021, 2023). And with 13 races separating us from the postseason, Blaney provisionally sits 11th in the projected 16-driver playoff field, 89 points above the elimination line — safe, but not secure.

Chase Briscoe, on the other hand, was all miss and no hits in his four trips with Stewart-Haas Racing. That can all be erased in his first trip to the concrete oval with Joe Gibbs Racing and its No. 19 team. Crew chief James Small and now-retired driver Martin Truex Jr. scored a runner-up finish at Nashville in 2023 behind Chastain, but the No. 19 Toyota has also finished outside the top 20 three times in for Nashville appearances. In fact, according to Racing Insights, JGR only has two top fives at Nashville in the four races and failed to have a car finish inside the top 10 in 2024 despite leading 203 of the 331 laps. Still, Briscoe stands 13th in the provisional postseason standings, 40 points to the good coming off a Charlotte top five.

Despite its spot smack-dab in the middle of the regular season, Nashville can play a pivotal role in the championship outcome. Last season, Joey Logano took advantage of incredible fuel saving to win after five periods of NASCAR Overtime, locking his spot in the playoffs and ultimately propelling the No. 22 Team Penske group toward its third championship season.

So who’s next? And who knows? Perhaps everything we thought we knew about this regular season could change Sunday night.

Ryan Blaney and Chase Elliott race at Nashville.
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MORE: Full Saturday recap

From atop the pit box …

What do crew chiefs have in focus to win Sunday’s race?

Sure, Nashville’s party central — Broadway — is a half hour northwest of the facility, but two drinking phrases for Sunday evening will be track position and fuel mileage.

Should a caution fall on the brink of the fuel window – which varies by manufacturer, with some saying 76 laps and others saying closer to 80 – expect teams to pit, hoping to get a few caution laps to bank enough fuel and stretch their tanks. Stephen Doran, crew chief for Zane Smith in last year’s five-overtime extravaganza, called the No. 71 Chevrolet to pit road with roughly 75 laps remaining in regulation. The race went 31 laps past its scheduled distance and Smith leaped more than 20 positions in the running order.

“We had just had a caution with like 75 to go so everyone could make it, so we knew most would stay out and didn’t have much to lose,” Doran, now crew chief for Shane van Gisbergen, told NASCAR.com on Saturday at Nashville. “We weren’t really thinking of fuel at the time; we were thinking of a tire advantage. As it turned out, it was a huge advantage on fuel to be able to jump everyone else that was pitting in overtime because they were out of fuel.”

Three-time Cup champion Joey Logano ultimately stretched his tank the furthest last summer, earning his first of two fuel-mileage victories in 2024 (Las Vegas, October). The No. 22 Ford pushed the limit, going 110 laps on a tank of gas with the aid of six caution flags.

“With the way the tire holds on to speed, it opens up the opportunity,” Paul Wolfe, crew chief of the No. 22 car, said. “As we go into any weekend, it’s understanding the tire and the trends of falloff and those types of things. This weekend, a new left-side tire, a little softer, is what we’re being told. There are opportunities to stay out with a lot of laps, and there’s the chance for two tires, which we did as well during that race. It’s one of those races where if you don’t have track position, there’s definitely opportunities to try to make some.”

It might be an outcry for another Nashville race to go five overtimes. But teams know that the race can be won or lost on restarts.

“I’d say you’re not going to see that again, but it is a track where the restarts are wild,” Doran stated. “It’s hard to pass here, it’s hard to complete a pass, so people are super aggressive on restarts to try and get track position. I think that’s why you saw the craziness at the end of the race last year.”

— Jayski’s Dustin Albino

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NASCAR Cup Series cars race into Turn 1 at Nashville past pit signs.
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History tells us …

Watch out for the current concrete kings. According to Racing Insights, three drivers have combined to win the last six races on concrete: Hamlin, Logano and Larson. Hamlin himself owns three of those wins, including two in 2024. Larson has won each of the last two, both of which came at Bristol Motor Speedway. But will the trend continue at a different Tennessee track?

He may not be the favorite to win, but watch out for …

AJ ALLMENDINGER. The No. 16 Kaulig Racing Chevrolet has impressed much of this season, even if last week’s top five at Charlotte broke a streak of two DNFs and three finishes outside the top 20. In three Nashville Cup starts, Allmendinger has never finished outside the top 20 — 19th, 10th and 11th. With Kaulig’s improved speed, perhaps Allmendinger will find himself in the mix once again.

Fantasy update

NASCAR Fantasy Live expert Dustin Albino provides insight for your Sunday lineup.

Toyota dominated Saturday at Nashville, with Tyler Reddick leading the way in most practice metrics and Chase Briscoe winning consecutive pole awards for the first time in his career. The biggest move this weekend is jumping Briscoe into my starting lineup after listing the No. 19 car as one to stay away from earlier this week. Briscoe had steady short- and long-run speed in practice. I also bumped Bubba Wallace as my garage pick, thinking it would be a smart idea to have Toyota as the focal point of your lineup on Sunday. The bonehead move of the year could be not having Kyle Larson available, but the No. 5 car looked average in practice and qualified a season-low 28th. I also flopped RFK drivers in 36 for 36, with Brad Keselowski being my new pick.

Lineup: Denny Hamlin, Tyler Reddick, Ross Chastain, Chase Briscoe, Chase Elliott.

Garage: Bubba Wallace.

MORE: Get lineup advice in Fantasy Fastlane

Speed reads

Our biggest pieces of the week — get covered for race day from all angles.
• NASCAR at Nashville: Key information, links, results through the weekend | Read more
• In-Season Challenge: How it works after 32-driver field is set after Nashville | Read more
• ‘Be a sponge’: How common thread, common goals propelled Trackhouse to Coca-Cola 600 win | Read more
• Racing Insights: Full finishing order projections for Sunday’s Cracker Barrel 400 | Read more
• Turning Point to Nashville: Larson’s ‘Double’ fallout, most successful drivers under the lights | Read more
• At-track photos: Best shots and scenes from Music City | View gallery
• NASCAR Classics: All the thrills and intense moments from Nashville | Watch races
• Paint Scheme Preview: Schemes set to shine under the Nashville lights | View gallery

The sun sets behind the Nashville Superspeedway grandstands.
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LEBANON, Tenn. — Before last weekend’s Coca-Cola 600, Tyler Reddick stated the No. 45 team needed a reset. Then, he nearly went out and put the full marathon together, only for it to go awry during the final stint. 

That’s the story of Reddick’s 2025 season just past the one-third mark. 

The defending regular-season champion sits fifth in the regular-season championship battle at the halfway point. But digging deeper into the statistics, he’s not far behind his pace from 2024, and is actually one position higher in the standings. The primary difference is he’s 17 points further behind the lead this year (minus-107 compared to minus-90 last year).

Coming off a Championship 4 appearance, expectations were naturally higher after scoring 23XI Racing’s first three-win season.

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“The rapid increase in performance that 23XI has had ever since I joined the team, at some point that inevitably is going to taper off some,” Reddick said on Saturday at Nashville Superspeedway. “You never want to get to the point where you’re going back down the mountain, but the closer you get to the top of that mountain, the harder it gets to continue to find speed. It seems like more now it’s a matter of finding consistency.” 

Consistency, indeed. The No. 45 team is tied with its 23XI teammate Bubba Wallace for the fourth-most stage points in the series, sitting right at the century mark. They trail only William Byron (137), Kyle Larson (128) and Ryan Blaney (110). 

The glaring weakness has been the final stage. Reddick has a mere four top-10 finishes, down from seven last year at this time. Since the fourth race of the season at Phoenix Raceway, the No. 45 team has only two finishes better than 14th. Four of the last five races have been 18th or worse at the checkered flag. 

Yet Reddick isn’t concerned with the potential of the No. 45 team. He believes his team should be graded on performance, rather than results.

“It’s more a matter of what’s our capability and performance is like,” Reddick added. “Last weekend (at Charlotte), it was really good. We’ve been a little bit more hit or miss compared to last year. The finishes will come with the more consistent performance. 

“At the end of the year, you look back and see the results of every given weekend. For me, it’s more about the performance that we bring to the race track and that won’t always be reflected in the finishing results.” 

Denny Hamlin, co-owner of 23XI Racing, still thinks the No. 45 team needs a larger sample size from the reset to see an improvement. He was pleased last week.  

“It’s going to take a little time with them,” Hamlin stated. “I like the speed that they’ve had over the last two weeks. Their race pace at [North] Wilkesboro wasn’t what I expected; it was about what I expected at Charlotte out of them. Execution is going to be the key with them. I think they have reset and we’re coming into the weekends now with that reset mind and we’ll see where they go with it.”

It was about this time last year that the No. 45 soared. Over the final 13 races of the 2024 season, Reddick had 11 top-10 finishes, with seven of those cracking the top five. The high point was winning at Michigan International Speedway, where he enters next weekend’s event as the defending winner. 

Reddick was the fastest driver in Nashville during Saturday’s practice session on single-lap and 10-lap averages. He qualified fourth for Sunday’s Cracker Barrel 400 (7 p.m. ET, Prime Video, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio), slotting in third of the Toyota drivers.

The California native also had a surprise to share this weekend, announcing Sunday the birth of his second child, Rookie George Reddick.

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Chase Briscoe claimed the Busch Light Pole Award for the second consecutive week and third time of the season Saturday, besting his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate, Denny Hamlin, by only 0.049 seconds in qualifying to earn the top starting position for Sunday’s Cracker Barrel 400 at Nashville Superspeedway (7 p.m. ET, Prime Video, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

Briscoe was among the very last to take to the 1.33-mile concrete oval, turning in a track record lap of 164.395 mph in the No. 19 JGR Toyota. He and Hamlin — a two-time Nashville pole winner — will lead the field to green with current NASCAR Cup Series championship leader, Hendrick Motorsports’ William Byron in the No. 24 Chevrolet and 23XI Racing’s Tyler Reddick in the No. 45 Toyota, a row behind.

RELATED: Starting lineup | At-track photos: Nashville

“I guess I just pushed my head farther forward as I was coming to the line,’’ Briscoe joked of the tight margin between the teammates to decide pole position.

“Honestly, I thought I ran a decent lap. Just a smooth lap and sometimes that’s what it takes. Obviously, a good Saturday for our Bass Pro Shops Toyota, and obviously, two weeks in a row we’ve been able to do that now, which is nice. Just need to put a Sunday together now.

“Track position is going to be really, really big here tomorrow and that’s the name of the game most every place we go, certainly at this place. So hopefully we can maintain track position and keep it up front all day long.’’

Hamlin agreed about the significance of a good starting position.

“Certainly going to be a track position-type race, and with very minimum [tire] falloff, even in practice I kept having to back up from the guys that I was catching,’’ said Hamlin, driver of the No. 11 JGR Toyota. “Obviously, great job for our Progressive Toyota team to get us a good starting spot and pit stall.

“I would have loved to have number one, but Chase just ruined that,’’ he added, smiling. “Really happy for the whole Joe Gibbs Racing team to get the whole front row there. I definitely think we can race from that spot.’’

Reddick held the number one position on the speed chart for much of qualifying, only to be bested later by his team co-owner Hamlin, Briscoe, and Byron late in the session. Last year’s regular season champion Reddick was fastest in practice in both single-lap speed and 10-lap average speed.

Last week’s Charlotte race winner Ross Chastain — the 2023 Nashville winner — was fifth fastest in the No. 1 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet, followed by RFK Racing owner and driver Brad Keselowski, who set the fastest time among the Fords, who is eager for execution to start matching the potential.

Joe Gibbs Racing’s Christopher Bell, Spire Motorsports’ Michael McDowell, Team Penske’s Joey Logano and RFK’s Christopher Buescher rounded out the top 10 in qualifying.

Former race winner (2021) Kyle Larson will start 28th and his Hendrick teammate Chase Elliott, the 2022 Nashville winner, will roll off 11th.

Reddick paces the field in practice

Cup Series drivers started Saturday with practice split into two 25-minute group sessions. Carson Hocevar led Group 1 with a speed of 160.338 mph while Tyler Reddick led a rapid Group 2 at 161.337 mph.

The top 10 overall were Reddick, Hamlin, Chase Elliott, Byron, Briscoe, Keselowski, Chastain, Hocevar, Bubba Wallace and McDowell.

MORE: Practice results | Busch, Berry go for a spin

Reddick led both groups overall in consecutive 10-lap averages. Hamlin, Chastain, Briscoe and Keselowski completed the top five there.

In Group 2, Kyle Busch got loose and slid while exiting Turn 4 and managed to avoid any damage, which brought out the first caution flag of the session. Moments later, Josh Berry had a similar incident while going over the bumps in the final turn, but managed to escape unscathed.

Contributing: Staff Report

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Roush Fenway Keselowski Racing owner and driver Brad Keselowski is fresh off his best finish of the year in the No. 6 Ford Mustang — a fifth-place run at Charlotte, where his five laps out front marked the first laps he’s led this season.

Amazingly, the effort was the 2012 NASCAR Cup Series champion’s best work since an 11th-place showing at Las Vegas in March. While he didn’t celebrate in Victory Lane, he got a lot closer and that is something he hopes his team can build off.

“Just trying not to do too much, we’re hitting our stride as an organization, particularly with the six-team,” said Keselowski, who is ranked 32nd in the championship standings and hoping to earn a playoff berth with a victory. His last win came at Darlington Raceway last spring.

MORE: Cup Series standings | Nashville weekend schedule

“The cars are developing more speed. Our execution’s getting better. It’s an exciting time for us outside of looking where we are in the points standings. We need to build off of that and incrementally inch our way toward being able to win and I think we’re really close to that right now.

“Last week was a really positive moment for us. The last run of the race, we passed at least a half dozen cars and ran the fastest laps and did all the things that make you feel like you can go win.”

Keselowski has never scored a top 10 at Nashville in four Cup Series starts at the track, but heads to his home state, Michigan, next week, where he has 15 top-10 finishes in 27 starts, including three runner-up finishes. He’s finished top 10 in three of the last four races there.

“Last year, I don’t think we had as much pace but were getting good finishes,” he added. “We have more potential now, but didn’t have the execution we had last year. I’m just eager to get the execution to match the potential.”

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Ranked in fourth place in the NASCAR Cup Series standings, Chase Elliott has certainly established himself best among those drivers without a win. But for the driver of the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet, that is not enough.

He’s ranked fourth in the championship standings — two of his Hendrick teammates, William Byron and Kyle Larson, lead the rankings. Consistency has certainly been key to Elliott’s season with seven top 10 and three top-five finishes through the opening 13 races. His best effort has been fourth place — at both COTA and Martinsville.

RELATED: Nashville schedule | Best photos from Music City

He has been particularly good at this week’s Nashville concrete 1.33-miler, winning the race in 2022 and scoring a fourth-place finish there in 2023. Looking ahead to next week at Michigan, Elliott has an impressive 10 top-10 finishes — including three runner-up efforts — in 14 starts.

“I thought we had a really good car last week at Charlotte,” Elliott said. “I think it’s a product of a lot of hard work and just a collective effort of trying to make some improvement. That’s always the goal, just keep chipping away. I think the team is in a really good spot.’’

Elliott knows he’s in a good place points standings-wise, but the 2020 Cup Series champion and perennial most popular driver isn’t satisfied with “pointing” his way into a title run. His last victory came over a year ago at Texas Motor Speedway.

“Certainly better to be in that position than on the other side of the fence, no doubt,” Elliott said of his points position. “But I’d be lying if I said that was my top focus. It’s just not. I think that if you’re worried about barely getting into the playoffs, I think you have some work to do.

“It really is kind of the best way I can think about that. And just to talk about my thought process, I want to be better than that. I want to be in the group of people of how many playoff points do you have, not just barely getting in. Our expectations and goals are above that, and we hope that we can achieve all of our goals.”

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LEBANON, Tenn. – Denny Hamlin hopes to add his name to the record book Sunday evening at Nashville Superspeedway by becoming the 22nd driver in NASCAR history to reach 700 career Cup Series starts. There’s a real possibility, however, that he misses his first NASCAR Cup Series race since 2014.

Hamlin’s longtime partner Jordan Fish is expecting to give birth to the couple’s third child – their first boy – at any moment. Her due date is June 1, the same date as Sunday’s Cracker Barrel 400 at Nashville.

MORE: See results for Nashville | At-track photos

The No. 11 team planned for Hamlin to get through practice and qualifying on Saturday with driver Ryan Truex on standby. The New Jersey native hasn’t started a race at the Cup level since a 23-race stint in 2014. He has just a single national series start this year, finishing 17th with Sam Hunt Racing at Daytona International Speedway.

“Oh yeah,” Hamlin said on if it’s a real possibility that he misses the Nashville race. “[Fish is] due tomorrow. I can’t miss it. I’ve got to be there for her, and that’s the biggest priority. I just wish she could hang on a little bit longer.

“I didn’t put a time on it. I think that there’s probably an eight-hour window that I don’t think it would be possible for me to do both.”

Hamlin isn’t intending to make the trip back to North Carolina following practice and qualifying and will remain in Nashville on Saturday evening.

The two-time 2025 winner put it simply that, should he get the call, he’s gone. Truex was fitted into the No. 11 Toyota, as the two drivers are similar in stature.

In four starts at Nashville, Hamlin has a pair of top 10 finishes with an average finish of 10.5. The No. 11 car has led at least 70 laps in the last three races. He’s aiming to be the first driver to win in their 700th start.

“It feels good to still be as competitive as I was in start one,” he added. “That’s what I’m most grateful in all of this is, 700 starts later, I can still go out and win this weekend.”

Truex has just one national series start at Nashville, finishing 16th in an Xfinity Series race with Michael Waltrip Racing in 2011.

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See where your favorite NASCAR Cup Series driver will pit for the Cracker Barrel 400 at Nashville Superspeedway on Sunday (7 p.m. ET, Prime Video, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

See where your favorite NASCAR Xfinity Series driver will pit for the Tennessee Lottery 250 at Nashville Superspeedway on Saturday (7:30 p.m. ET, The CW, PRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

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See where your favorite NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driver will pit for the Rackley Roofing 200 at Nashville Superspeedway on Friday (8 p.m. ET, FS1, NRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

View of pit stalls.

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LEBANON, Tenn. — Front Row Motorsports unloaded its newest cutting-edge race truck on Friday at Nashville Superspeedway for Layne Riggs. It was all going according to plan. 

Cording a tire in practice resulted in only six timed laps on the race track. Still, Riggs started third for the Craftsman Truck Series’ Rackley 200 and was an immediate threat.

By Lap 19, Riggs was challenging series’ wins leader and regular-season championship headman Corey Heim for the lead. After passing the No. 11 Toyota, Riggs tallied his third career stage victory — all coming in the first 12 races of 2025.

RELATED: Race results | At-track photos: Nashville

The first miscue on pit road came at the Stage 1 break, as Riggs lost multiple positions. He was able to scurry up to a runner-up finish in Stage 2 to Heim. 

But the final dagger occurred during the No. 34 team’s final pit stop, with front tire changer Blake Hickman getting caught up while changing the right-front tire. Riggs plummeted to eighth in the running order while Rajah Caruth’s No. 71 team got him out in clean air for the start of the final stage. 

With the laps dwindling away, Heim made a final charge on Caruth for the race lead. That allowed Riggs to gain quickly, though he couldn’t pass the No. 11 truck for second position. The No. 34 Ford took the checkered flag in third, capping off a three-week stretch of consecutive top-five finishes. 

“This one is probably one of the biggest stingers so far,” Riggs said after the checkered flag. “It’s probably the most dominant car I’ve had and not won the race. The last time I felt like that was at Bristol (last year) and we did win.

“It just stings when it feels like I did everything flawlessly on the race track and we just gave it away on pit road. We just have to be better on pit road. These races, especially here in the trucks, it’s so line dominant and clean air means so much. My balance would change tremendously with each [truck] I passed to get to the front. You have to get single-filed out to start making passes and at that point you lose so much track position.” 

The same issue for the No. 34 crew occurred at the conclusion of Stage 1 to begin the month of May at Texas Motor Speedway. After pitting from the lead during the opening stage, he recounts dropping to 25th in the running order. 

Riggs put it simply, the No. 34 team must improve. 

“Just practice more. Get better reps and be smarter,” Riggs suggested of how the No. 34 team can hone in on the issue. “When we get down to these end-of-the-race situations and come in leading, [we] cannot let the pressure get to us.”

It wasn’t all bad for Riggs. Rounding out the podium, he’s now 11 points behind fourth in the regular season standings and picked up a playoff point.

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LEBANON, Tenn. — In the closing laps of Friday night’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at Nashville Superspeedway, Rajah Caruth had a question for himself.

“How bad do you want it?” Caruth thought silently, as four-time winner Corey Heim and Layne Riggs pursued him relentlessly over the final circuits.

Caruth answered his own question by driving flawlessly over the final 15 laps of the Rackley Roofing 200, crossing the finish line 0.518 seconds ahead of Heim in second and 0.629 seconds ahead of Riggs in third.

The victory was Caruth’s first at Nashville, his first of the season and second of his career, which vaulted him into the Craftsman Truck Series Playoffs.

RELATED: Race results | At-track photos: Nashville

After Heim won the second stage — his ninth stage win of the season — a quick pit stop under caution during the stage break gave Caruth the lead on Lap 100, and he held it the rest of the way to claim the coveted guitar trophy that goes to Nashville race winners.

Driving the No. 71 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet, Caruth led twice for 61 of 150 laps, including the last 51.

“I didn’t expect that at all — those guys were breathing down my neck the whole run,” Caruth said of Heim and Riggs. “My pit crew won that race. They won the race for us, got us off pit road twice.

“We’ve been off this year, but it was good to get it done tonight. That was a lot of fun. I asked myself, ‘How bad do you want it?’ I just tried my best, and we had clean air. Their stuff was better, but I just did my best. That was it.”

Heim agreed that losing the lead on the final pit stop was critical.

“With the third stage being so straightforward — lack of strategy, going green there — it was tough to come back from not having the lead. But I slid through my (pit) box during the last stop and didn’t do my guys any favors… just something to reflect on my end.

“But huge congrats to Rajah. He did an awesome job managing from the lead. I was really free behind him, and he made pretty much the right choice every time as far as where I was going to go.”

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Riggs, who won the first stage, got to Heim’s bumper twice in the battle for second but couldn’t claim the runner-up spot.

“I’ll tell you, I had the best seat in the house there at the end of that race,” said Riggs, who fell from second to eighth off pit road during the second stage break because of trouble removing his right front tire. “They were doing some racing right there in front of me.

“I hoped to be right there in the mix. I just didn’t have enough time.”

Daniel Hemric came home fourth, followed by Corey Day, a dirt-track phenom who posted his first top five in his tenth career start in Truck Series competition.

Heim widened his series lead to 122 points over second-place Hemric entering next Saturday’s DQS Solutions & Staffing 250 at Michigan International Speedway on June 7 (Noon ET, FOX, NRN Radio, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

NOTE: Post-race inspection was completed without issue in the Craftsman Truck Series garage, confirming Rajah Caruth as the winner.

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SEEKONK, Mass. — Due to forecasted inclement weather, Seekonk Speedway and NASCAR officials announced today that the J&R Precast 150 & NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series divisions will now race on Sunday, June 1 at 3 p.m.

The event will begin with NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour qualifying at 2:30 p.m., followed by qualifying heats for the Seekonk Late Models, Helger’s Sportsman and Sport Trucks.

The NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour will hit the track for their feature hit promptly at 4:10 p.m. Following the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour J&R Precast 150, Seekonk’s Sport Trucks (25 laps), Late Models (45 laps, Everett’s Triple Crown round one) and Helger’s Sportsman (25 laps) will all compete in their feature events.

Tickets for the show are available online at SeekonkSpeedway.com. Fans are encouraged to purchase ahead to avoid lines on race day and save money.

“We feel this was the best decision for this event, and it looks to be a picture perfect Sunday coming up for short-track racing as we continue our 80th season,” David Alburn, General Manager at Seekonk Speedway, said. “We look forward to seeing the fans for a matinee special with NASCAR’s oldest touring series – the ground pounding Whelen Modified Tour – and three of our NASCAR weekly divisions for a great day of Sunday racing action.”

Grandstands on Sunday will open at 1:30 p.m. for advance ticket holders and 2 p.m. for day of ticket sales.

In the pit area, the NASCAR garage opens at 9:45 a.m., while NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series haulers will enter at 11 a.m. The practice rounds for the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour will run from 12-1 p.m., followed by weekly division practice at 1:05 p.m. NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour qualifying begins at 2:30 p.m. and heat races at 3 p.m.

For more information on Seekonk Speedway, visit SeekonkSpeedway.com and follow the track on social media for the latest news and updates.