Corey Heim won the Black's Tire 200 at Rockingham Speedway by 0.090 seconds over Kaden Honeycutt, his teammate at TRICON Garage, with the steering of his Toyota No. 1 turned 20 degrees to the right on the straights and the tires vibrating through every corner during the final four laps. Honeycutt managed to take the lead on lap 199 in the Toyota No. 11, the same truck with which Heim won the championship in 2025, but could not hold on.

The victory is Heim's second consecutive win in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series and the 25th of his career. With it, he collected the $100,000 Triple Truck Challenge bonus and is now in position to claim $500,000 next Saturday at Bristol Motor Speedway if he wins a third consecutive race in "The Trip" program, something no driver has ever achieved.

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Four laps with a broken truck

Heim led 178 of the 200 laps, a personal record, and became the first driver in the 2026 season across any of NASCAR's three national series to achieve maximum points in a single race: he won both stages and recorded the fastest lap of the event (22.965 seconds on lap 174), accumulating 76 points.

With four laps to go, something broke in the truck's steering. "I didn't feel like I pushed it harder than in previous runs or that I damaged the right-front tire more, but suddenly the truck started pulling and I had to turn right on the straight to keep it straight," Heim said. "My steering wheel was at like 20 degrees to the right and it was vibrating a lot through the corners. I thought we were going to lose this one in the worst possible way."

Honeycutt was closing the gap lap by lap, got to Heim's bumper with three laps to go, and took the lead on lap 199, but Heim used the lapped truck of his teammate Tanner Gray as a blocker entering turn 1 on the final lap. Honeycutt found no room to return the pass, and Heim exited turn 4 still ahead to take the checkered flag.

"I used a couple of lapped trucks to slow him down," said Heim. "I respect Kaden for racing clean. I did what I had to do there at the end."

Honeycutt accepted the result without complaint. "I don't know what I could have done differently other than put us both in the gravel," he said. "I didn't want to do that. I wanted to make sure one of us won, and obviously I wanted it to be me, but it's good that our TRICON organization could do this. Our trucks have been very, very good all year, and I think our time is going to come."

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Smith disqualified, Heim leads the championship without competing for the title

Layne Riggs and Chandler Smith finished third and fourth in the Ford trucks of Front Row Motorsports, but Smith's No. 38 was disqualified in post-race inspection for a ride-height violation. The penalty stripped him of all points from the event and dropped him from first to fourth in the championship with 173 units. Smith had arrived at Rockingham with a 33-point lead over Honeycutt and a victory at Daytona, and now sits 17 points behind the two drivers tied at the top with 190 each: Heim and Honeycutt.

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Heim is not even competing for the title. In 2025 he won the championship with TRICON Garage, broke the single-season wins record with 12, and captured the title, but this year he splits his schedule between select Truck starts in the No. 5, 12 Cup Series races in the Toyota No. 67 for 23XI Racing, and some appearances in the O'Reilly Auto Parts Series. In two Truck races in 2026, he has two victories: at Darlington last week he won from 15th place in overtime, passing Ross Chastain on the inside in turns 3 and 4 on the final lap, and at Rockingham he held on with a broken truck.

Stewart Friesen moved up to fourth with Smith's disqualification, followed by Grant Enfinger, Tyler Ankrum (winner at Rockingham last year), Corey LaJoie, and Ty Majeski. Jake Garcia, who started from pole, finished ninth, one lap down, and Cole Butcher rounded out the top 10.