Trackin’ Trucks: Rajah Caruth Wins at Nashville
Rajah Caruth earned his first Craftsman Truck Series victory of the 2025 season on Friday night at Nashville Superspeedway, holding off a charging Corey Heim in the closing laps of the Rackley Roofing 200.
Caruth led 61 of 150 laps for his first victory at the 1.33-mile track. It was the second victory of his career.
“We‘ve been off this year, but it was good to get it done tonight. That was a lot of fun.” Caruth said of the win, “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.”
Caruth worked hard to keep Heim, who led 58 laps and won the second stage of the event, behind him, beating Heim by 0.518 seconds and 0.629 seconds ahead of Layne Riggs, who overcame two long pit stops and made it back to the front.
Heim had the best equipment, but lost the lead on the final pit stop of the night.
“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.”
Riggs came home in third, Daniel Hemric earned fourth, while Corey Day rounded out the top-five finishers and earned the first top five of his career.
Kaden Honeycutt finished sixth, Chandler Smith seventh, while Ty Majeski, Bayley Currey, and Grant Enfinger earned eighth through 10th place, respectively.
A Look Ahead
Heim extended his series lead to 122 points over Hemric and 125 points ahead of Smith, who is in third.
Caruth currently holds the 10th place position by less than 25 points over Giovanni Ruggiero (22 points) and Stewart Friesen (23 points).
The Craftsman Truck Series head to Michigan International Speedway next Saturday, June 7th at 12 p.m. ET on FOX.
Reviewed by Courtney Horn
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Saturday, May 31, 2025
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