For the second time this season, It’s Heim time.
Corey Heim captured his second NASCAR Truck Series victory of 2024 at Kansas Speedway in the Heart of America 200 after a dominant performance in his TRICON no. 11 Toyota Tundra, leading the most laps with 77 laps led. Heim won his seventh career Truck Series race by 1.088 seconds.
Zane Smith gained in the closing laps, but was unable to catch Heim in the end, finishing second. Smith led 28 laps and won stage two but fell behind in stage three, being behind Heim by four seconds at one point before falling about a second short.
Smith’s McAnally-HIlgemann Racing teammate and former Kansas winner Christian Eckes crossed the line third, and Kaden Honeycutt completed a career-best run in his No. 45 Chevrolet Silverado, finishing fourth. In the closing stages, Honeycutt battled Heim for the lead but fell behind during final green flag pit stops. Brett Moffitt, in his 2024 Truck Series series debut for the TRICON No. 1, completed the top five.
Nick Sanchez, Tanner Gray, Dean Thompson, Daniel Dye and Matt Crafton rounded out the top 10.
Chase Purdy led the field to green with Ty Majeski to his outside. As Purdy cleared the No. 98 with his Spire Motorsports teammate Connor Mosack following, Majeski fell into a five wide battle and suffered a flat left front tire and rode the turn one wall to bring out the first caution of the night. Majeski would finish last of the 33 entries.
Purdy would lose the lead to former Truck Series champion Smith on lap eight, but Smith would swiftly lose the lead to Heim four laps later on lap 12.
Heim maintained the lead over Smith to win stage one, his second of the 2024 season. Eckes, Purdy and Honeycutt completed the top five.
Eckes and Honeycutt passed Heim in the pits, and Eckes would prevail initially on the stage two restart, but his MHR teammate Smith took the lead for the second time of the race on lap 40.
Smith stayed ahead of the No. 11 to take the stage two victory. The top five finishing order for stage two consisted of Eckes, Honeycutt and Purdy respectivley.
Smith lost seven positions on his pit stop while Eckes would retake the lead to start the third stage. His lead wouldn’t last long as Sanchez took the lead momentarily on lap 69. On the next lap, Heim would return to the front with Honeycutt right behind.
Honeycutt remained behind the No. 11, but the No. 45 pit crew had a slower stop, falling to fourth, and Heim undercut…
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