After spending over an hour on RacingReference researching for this piece, there’s one thing that sticks out in the history of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series.

When Kyle Busch is in the field, he usually wins. The all-time winningest driver in the series, with 67, Busch once ran 5 races and won every single one of them.

However, that was 2019 and six years later, that theory doesn’t hold much water. While Rowdy was in the field tonight at Charlotte, it was a young Toyota driver who dominated the race. 

If you’ve been following the Truck Series, he needs no introduction, but it was Corey Heim who cruised to a six-second win. To properly put Heim’s domination into perspective, let’s compare two drivers’ statistics.

Driver A: 5 wins, 15 top-5s, 21 top-10s, 875 laps led and a 5.7 average finish

Driver B: 4 wins, 7 top-5s, 9 top-10s, 752 laps led and a 6.1 average finish

Driver A is Christopher Bell’s Truck Series championship season in 2017 over 23 races, not a bad season for the future Cup Series superstar. However, Driver B is Heim’s 2025 season through just 11 of the 25 races. 

It’s safe to say that Heim is on pace for a dominant season more reminiscent of the 1990s, when the series was just beginning, than the modern day. But can Heim truly achieve the best season in series history? Let’s take a look:

Wins

Record: 9, Heim’s current total: 4

Set in 1999 by Greg Biffle, the record for wins has been challenged several times. Three times drivers have won eight races, but the most recent challenge to the throne was Busch in 2010, when he won eight races.

With 14 races left in the season, it’s possible that Heim can get to nine or even 10. He’s already had multiple wins at North Wilksboro, Bristol and Homestead slip through his fingers, so clearing that mark is doable.

Lucky for Heim, there are tracks left on the schedule where he’s already visited Victory Lane. Pocono, Martinsville and Bristol are all races he’s won before, should all be very winnable races, so let’s add three more to his total. 

Still in need of three wins to break the record, the rest of the tracks on the schedule are no gimmes. Heim will be a threat at Darlington, Nashville and Michigan, but he’s never won at any of those tracks.

It’ll take perfection from Heim, but it’s within reach, especially if he can turn around his luck at Watkins Glen and the Charlotte ROVAL. 

Laps Led

Record: 1,533, Heim’s current total: 752

No driver has led more laps through 11 races in the history of the series than Heim, but he’ll need to continue his pace to catch Mike Skinner’s 1996 record. 

Corey Heim has now led 700 laps in 2025.

This is the most laps a driver has EVER led through 11 races in a Truck Series season.

— NASCAR Insights (@NASCARInsights) May 24, 2025

Heim has clearly shown the pace, but thanks to stage cautions and two road courses in the second half of the schedule, it’s a lot harder to predict if he’ll break this record. He’ll need more than a few dominant performances like Charlotte, where he led 98 of 134 laps.

That’s not to say it can’t be done. In 2008, Ron Hornaday Jr. led 1,326 laps in 25 races, and that was during a season where he had multiple DNFs. 

Average Finish

Record: 4.5, Heim’s current total: 6.1

Another record held by Skinner’s insane 1996 season, this one is not as far out of reach as the former. Heim’s pace is already the best average finish for any driver in the series since Hornaday Jr’s 5.7 in 2007.

Making it through 11 races with no DNFs is quite the accomplishment and one that simply cannot hold for long. Heim will have to offset the eventual wreck or failure with wins, which, as we’ve been over, he’ll do.

It’ll take some luck, but Skinner’s record might not be in the history books for much longer.

Heim’s next opportunity to put a stamp on this season will come next Friday, May 30, at Nashville Superspeedway with a green flag time of 5:00 p.m. PST.