After a crash at Darlington Raceway on May 10 led to his first finish outside the top 10 all season, Corey Heim got right back in the saddle in just a week’s time, as he captured his third win of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series season on Sunday (May 19) in the Wright Brand 250 at North Wilkesboro Speedway.
The No. 11 Toyota took the lead from Jake Garcia on lap 186 and never relinquished it. Heim led a race-high 66 laps on his way to the win in a race that began Saturday before being postponed due to a massive downpour that flooded the track.
“Definitely a crazy weekend with the weather and what not, but I knew since practice that we had the speed,” Heim said in a Fox Sports 1 post-race interview. “Can’t say enough about these TRICON Garage guys. What a truck and what a weekend. Knew we had potential from practice and put it all together and executed great today.”
With Heim firmly out front in the closing laps, the only drama was for second. Grant Enfinger took the runner-up spot for his best finish of the season.
“Overall, just the best execution of the season,” Enfinger told Fox Sports 1. “This is the third time, second time in a row, we’ve brought a really fast Champion Power Equipment Chevrolet.”
Layne Riggs also had a season-best finish in third with the help of some pit strategy, feeling he and Front Row Motorsports finally got the result they knew they could have. Riggs’ previous best finish was 10th at Bristol.
“We really needed this,” Riggs said. “We finally finished where we deserved to finish today. We knew we had a third or fourth place truck. It’s just hard with the way the track was changing to pit so early and guess what everyone was going to do.”
While Heim was celebrating on the frontstretch, it was one of his TRICON teammates who the crowd was going crazy for. Brenden “Butterbean” Queen, a regular in the CARS Late Model Tour, finished fourth in his Truck debut in the No. 1 Toyota.
“It’s what I’ve worked for my whole life and never thought I’d have this opportunity,” Queen said. “I just never knew if I’d get this opportunity and Bean Nation has stuck with me. I’m just blessed, man. I hope I can turn this into some more opportunities. I love racing my late model but it’s my dream to get to the next level.”
Queen was running near the front of the pack when he decided to pit midway through stage two and got tagged with a speeding…
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