The 2024 Baptist Health 200 NASCAR TRUCK Series pit stop performance data highlights the fastest pit stops, team efficiency, and crew performance from Homestead Miami Speedway.
Saturday, October 26th, 2024
Homestead Miami Speedway, Homestead, FL
After a week off, the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series returns to Playoff competition this weekend as the opening race of a Saturday doubleheader in South Florida, the Baptist Health 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway (Noon ET on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).
Veteran Grant Enfinger became the first driver to earn a position in the Nov. 8 Championship Race at Phoenix Raceway – capturing the win at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway two weeks ago.
This weekend’s race on the 1.5-mile Homestead-Miami track will go a long way to deciding who will be joining the driver of the No. 9 CR7 Motorsports Chevrolet to race for the big trophy. The season’s winningest driver, TRICON Garage’s Corey Heim holds a healthy 30-point advantage over the Championship 4 Round cutline heading into the green flag, with McAnally-Hilgemann Racing’s Christian Eckes 29 points to the good and ThorSport Racing’s Ty Majeski five points up in that final transfer position over Spire Motorsports’ Rajah Caruth.
Tricon Garage’s Taylor Gray is 13 points out of the top-four, followed by REV Racing’s Nick Sanchez (-20) and McAnally-Hilgemann’s Tyler Ankrum in eighth place, 23 points down.
It’s actually the tightest Playoff battle among NASCAR’s three premier series- both how close – a five-point margin – it is from that pivotal fourth place position to being out of the title chase in fifth and also the relatively tight gap (-23 points) from eighth place to fourth.
Last year was a “Playoff Day” in the CRAFTSMAN Truck Series race at Homestead-Miami with Carson Hocevar leading a quartet of championship-eligible drivers that swept the top-four finishing positions. The only former winner in the field this weekend is Majeski, who claimed the trophy in 2022.
The Wisconsin-native and two-time winner this season is three-for-three in top-10s at Homestead-Miami and led a race best 67 laps en route to his win there two years ago.
Heim is another driver to watch, scoring top-five finishes in both his Homestead-Miami starts, including a best of third last year and fifth place in 2022. Enfinger has the most starts (seven) at the track among the Playoff eight with a best showing of runner-up in 2018.
Practice for the race is Friday afternoon at 2:35 p.m. ET, followed by qualifying at 3:05 p.m. ET.
A strategy call from the pit box coupled with a patient move forward landed veteran Grant Enfinger his second consecutive NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Playoff race win in Saturday’s Baptist Health 200 at Homestead-Miami Speedway while his closest competitors ran out of fuel behind him in the closing laps.
Enfinger, who won the opening race in this Playoff round at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway three weeks ago denied the other seven Playoff racers a chance at an automatic bid into championship contention. So now at least two drivers will advance based on points-earned with only next Saturday’s race at Martinsville, Va. to settle which other three drivers move onward into the title fight.
Enfinger’s No. 9 CR7 Motorsports Chevrolet suffered damage on an early race restart, and the team opted to move to a different pit strategy – taking tires and fuel on lap 80 while most of the day’s previous race leaders opted to pit later on Lap 100. Ultimately Enfinger was able to both save enough fuel and race off to enough advantage that no one was able to catch him as he raced away to his 12th career victory.
Taking the lead for good with 22 laps remaining, Enfinger claimed a 17.5-second win over ThorSport Racing’s Ty Majeski as other trucks on a similar alternate strategy to Enfinger – the No. 38 driven by Layne Riggs and the No. 2 driven by Nick Sanchez – began running out of fuel in the final two laps.
Enfinger had enough fuel he even did a burnout to celebrate the win.
“At the end of the day, [crew chief] Jeff [Stankiewicz] just had the best truck out here,” said Enfinger, who actually made up a lap on track after contact on a race re-start cut his tire earlier in the day.
“Our car was really fast after about five laps yesterday [in practice] and was the same way today. Jeff did a good job managing me with the tires and then managing me with the fuel. I feel like I saved at least 20 percent more than I did in the first run. Jeff was on me pretty hard obviously and the 38 [Layne Riggs] ran out and the 2 [Nick Sanchez] did too.
“Hard to beat these two weeks,” he added with a grin.
“We’ve had potential all year,” the 38-year-old Alabama native continued. “There’s been sometimes, I haven’t executed and sometimes we’ve just had bad luck. Maybe it’s just time we get our momentum now.”
Connor Mosack finished a career best third-place in the No. 7 Spire Motorsports truck. The day’s most dominant truck, driven by TRICON Garage’s Playoff driver Corey Heim finished fourth after leading a race best 68 of the 134 laps. Heim continues to lead the championship standings and is now 49 points above fifth place with the top-four drivers advancing to the title race.
“Overall, a good day for points, but disappointing,” said Heim, who has a series best six wins on the year. “We were so fast last year and wanted to come back and redeem ourselves and win the race of course. But no complaints as far as points go, makes Martinsville a little bit easier if we put together a decent day.”
McAnally-Hilgemann Racing’s Playoff driver Tyler Ankrum, finished fifth – his best finish of the Playoff run to date. Veteran Stewart Friesen was sixth, followed by Daniel Dye.
And three Playoff drivers – Spire Motorsports’ Rajah Caruth, McAnally-Hilgemann’s Christian Eckes and Tricon Garage’s Taylor Gray rounded out the top-10.
Heading into the next race, Heim has that 49-point edge above the cutoff line. Eckes is 38 points to the good and Majeski now holds a 22-point advantage. Caruth is ranked fifth, the first driver outside the Playoff bubble, 22 points back. Gray is 24 points back and Ankrum and Sanchez – who finished 13th after running out of fuel – are 41 and 43 points behind, respectively.
Frankie Muniz, the popular actor from the Malcolm in the Middle television series, finished 33rd in his series debut, his truck suffering mechanical problems early in the race.
The NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races in the Zip Buy Now, Pay Later 200 at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway next Friday evening (6 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) to settle the Championship Four field. Eckes won the race there this April.
Summary of each driver's pit stop during the race. Detailed Report is below the Summary Report.
DRIVER | ST | FIN | STATUS | PIT STOPS | AVG DRVR TIME | DRVR RANK | AVG CREW TIME | CREW RANK | AVG TTL TIME | TTL RANK | FST STOP | SLW STOP |
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Taylor Gray | 2 | 10 | Running | 3 | 26.981 | 2 | 14.914 | 1 | 41.895 | 1 | 41.397 | 42.318 |
Grant Enfinger | 9 | 1 | Running | 2 | 27.245 | 8 | 14.948 | 2 | 42.193 | 2 | 41.629 | 42.756 |
Dean Thompson | 18 | 15 | Running | 3 | 27.184 | 5 | 15.544 | 3 | 42.728 | 3 | 42.463 | 42.866 |
Corey Heim | 1 | 4 | Running | 3 | 27.487 | 15 | 15.571 | 4 | 43.059 | 4 | 42.034 | 43.737 |
Nicholas Sanchez | 4 | 13 | Running | 3 | 27.237 | 7 | 15.884 | 6 | 43.121 | 5 | 42.231 | 43.905 |
Christian Eckes | 8 | 9 | Running | 3 | 27.274 | 9 | 15.849 | 5 | 43.123 | 6 | 42.350 | 44.290 |
Rajah Caruth | 3 | 8 | Running | 3 | 26.973 | 1 | 16.461 | 8 | 43.434 | 7 | 42.459 | 44.790 |
Connor Mosack | 10 | 3 | Running | 3 | 27.356 | 11 | 16.171 | 7 | 43.528 | 8 | 42.683 | 44.144 |
Stewart Friesen | 12 | 6 | Running | 3 | 27.380 | 12 | 16.605 | 9 | 43.985 | 9 | 43.242 | 44.829 |
Ty Majeski | 5 | 2 | Running | 3 | 27.188 | 6 | 17.183 | 10 | 44.371 | 10 | 43.968 | 44.722 |
William Sawalich | 20 | 17 | Running | 3 | 27.490 | 16 | 17.326 | 11 | 44.817 | 11 | 43.862 | 46.126 |
Matt Crafton | 22 | 11 | Running | 3 | 27.085 | 3 | 18.040 | 13 | 45.125 | 12 | 43.344 | 47.515 |
Tanner Gray | 33 | 20 | Running | 3 | 27.685 | 17 | 17.562 | 12 | 45.247 | 13 | 43.894 | 47.693 |
Layne Riggs | 13 | 22 | Running | 3 | 27.300 | 10 | 18.128 | 14 | 45.428 | 14 | 42.427 | 51.190 |
Tyler Ankrum | 15 | 5 | Running | 3 | 27.438 | 13 | 18.217 | 15 | 45.655 | 15 | 42.883 | 48.516 |
Kaden Honeycutt | 6 | 14 | Running | 3 | 27.146 | 4 | 18.706 | 16 | 45.852 | 16 | 44.291 | 48.956 |
Corey Day | 21 | 16 | Running | 2 | 28.564 | 20 | 18.952 | 18 | 47.516 | 17 | 44.972 | 50.060 |
Daniel Dye | 7 | 7 | Running | 3 | 28.762 | 22 | 18.840 | 17 | 47.602 | 18 | 43.396 | 50.217 |
Chase Purdy | 17 | 26 | Running | 2 | 29.176 | 28 | 19.186 | 19 | 48.361 | 19 | 48.195 | 48.527 |
Timmy Hill | 25 | 23 | Running | 2 | 28.445 | 19 | 20.571 | 23 | 49.016 | 20 | 48.410 | 49.621 |
Conner Jones | 23 | 25 | Running | 3 | 29.087 | 27 | 20.035 | 21 | 49.122 | 21 | 47.659 | 50.655 |
Connor Zilisch | 16 | 18 | Running | 3 | 29.049 | 26 | 20.309 | 22 | 49.358 | 22 | 43.508 | 57.503 |
Jake Garcia | 26 | 24 | Running | 2 | 28.791 | 23 | 20.686 | 24 | 49.477 | 23 | 48.093 | 50.860 |
Spencer Boyd | 34 | 27 | Running | 3 | 30.311 | 32 | 19.353 | 20 | 49.664 | 24 | 49.356 | 49.971 |
Marco Andretti | 30 | 30 | Running | 2 | 28.746 | 21 | 21.422 | 26 | 50.167 | 25 | 48.427 | 51.907 |
Conor Daly | 28 | 28 | Running | 3 | 29.042 | 25 | 21.265 | 25 | 50.307 | 26 | 48.929 | 51.580 |
Lawless Alan | 27 | 21 | Running | 3 | 28.237 | 18 | 22.199 | 27 | 50.436 | 27 | 47.679 | 53.328 |
Ben Rhodes | 19 | 12 | Running | 2 | 27.446 | 14 | 23.289 | 30 | 50.735 | 28 | 49.530 | 51.939 |
Dawson Sutton | 14 | 19 | Running | 3 | 28.893 | 24 | 22.221 | 28 | 51.114 | 29 | 45.311 | 57.948 |
Matt Mills | 24 | 34 | Accident | 2 | 29.251 | 29 | 22.405 | 29 | 51.656 | 30 | 51.648 | 51.664 |
Nathan Byrd | 29 | 29 | Running | 2 | 29.531 | 30 | 25.024 | 32 | 54.555 | 31 | 54.042 | 55.067 |
Justin Mondeik | 32 | 32 | Running | 3 | 29.560 | 31 | 25.560 | 33 | 55.119 | 32 | 53.714 | 56.484 |
Bayley Currey | 11 | 31 | Running | 1 | 34.059 | 33 | 24.624 | 31 | 58.683 | 33 | 58.683 | 58.683 |
Each 2- and 4-wheel pit stop during the race.
DRIVER | LDR LAP | DRV LAP | DRV TIME | CREW TIME | TOT TIME | TYPE |
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Grant Enfinger | 62 | 62 | 26.814 | 14.815 | 41.629 | 4-wheel change |
Grant Enfinger | 33 | 33 | 27.675 | 15.081 | 42.756 | 4-wheel change |
Matt Crafton | 33 | 33 | 27.095 | 16.249 | 43.344 | 4-wheel change |
Matt Crafton | 99 | 98 | 26.998 | 17.517 | 44.515 | 4-wheel change |
Matt Crafton | 62 | 62 | 27.162 | 20.353 | 47.515 | 4-wheel change |
Timmy Hill | 62 | 62 | 27.756 | 20.654 | 48.410 | 4-wheel change |
Timmy Hill | 34 | 34 | 29.134 | 20.487 | 49.621 | 4-wheel change |
Bayley Currey | 63 | 57 | 34.059 | 24.624 | 58.683 | 4-wheel change |
Spencer Boyd | 34 | 33 | 29.904 | 19.452 | 49.356 | 4-wheel change |
Spencer Boyd | 79 | 78 | 30.412 | 19.252 | 49.664 | 4-wheel change |
Spencer Boyd | 63 | 62 | 30.617 | 19.354 | 49.971 | 4-wheel change |
Matt Mills | 62 | 62 | 28.759 | 22.889 | 51.648 | 4-wheel change |
Matt Mills | 33 | 33 | 29.743 | 21.921 | 51.664 | 4-wheel change |
Stewart Friesen | 78 | 78 | 27.295 | 15.947 | 43.242 | 4-wheel change |
Stewart Friesen | 62 | 62 | 27.301 | 16.583 | 43.884 | 4-wheel change |
Stewart Friesen | 33 | 33 | 27.545 | 17.284 | 44.829 | 4-wheel change |
Ben Rhodes | 78 | 78 | 27.777 | 21.753 | 49.530 | 4-wheel change |
Ben Rhodes | 62 | 62 | 27.115 | 24.824 | 51.939 | 4-wheel change |
Tyler Ankrum | 62 | 62 | 27.435 | 15.448 | 42.883 | 4-wheel change |
Tyler Ankrum | 33 | 33 | 27.782 | 17.784 | 45.566 | 4-wheel change |
Tyler Ankrum | 78 | 78 | 27.097 | 21.419 | 48.516 | 4-wheel change |
Christian Eckes | 98 | 97 | 27.002 | 15.348 | 42.350 | 4-wheel change |
Christian Eckes | 33 | 33 | 26.979 | 15.749 | 42.728 | 4-wheel change |
Christian Eckes | 62 | 62 | 27.841 | 16.449 | 44.290 | 4-wheel change |
Chase Purdy | 62 | 62 | 29.343 | 18.852 | 48.195 | 4-wheel change |
Chase Purdy | 33 | 33 | 29.008 | 19.519 | 48.527 | 4-wheel change |
Ty Majeski | 99 | 98 | 27.087 | 16.881 | 43.968 | 4-wheel change |
Ty Majeski | 33 | 33 | 27.407 | 17.017 | 44.424 | 4-wheel change |
Ty Majeski | 62 | 62 | 27.071 | 17.651 | 44.722 | 4-wheel change |
Tanner Gray | 120 | 119 | 27.177 | 16.717 | 43.894 | 4-wheel change |
Tanner Gray | 33 | 33 | 27.772 | 16.383 | 44.155 | 4-wheel change |
Tanner Gray | 62 | 62 | 28.107 | 19.586 | 47.693 | 4-wheel change |
Conor Daly | 112 | 109 | 27.942 | 20.987 | 48.929 | 4-wheel change |
Conor Daly | 63 | 62 | 29.925 | 20.486 | 50.411 | 4-wheel change |
Conor Daly | 34 | 33 | 29.258 | 22.322 | 51.580 | 4-wheel change |
Corey Heim | 100 | 99 | 27.052 | 14.982 | 42.034 | 4-wheel change |
Corey Heim | 62 | 62 | 27.489 | 15.916 | 43.405 | 4-wheel change |
Corey Heim | 33 | 33 | 27.921 | 15.816 | 43.737 | 4-wheel change |
Lawless Alan | 102 | 101 | 27.626 | 20.053 | 47.679 | 4-wheel change |
Lawless Alan | 62 | 62 | 27.980 | 22.322 | 50.302 | 4-wheel change |
Lawless Alan | 34 | 33 | 29.105 | 24.223 | 53.328 | 4-wheel change |
Dean Thompson | 100 | 99 | 27.081 | 15.382 | 42.463 | 4-wheel change |
Dean Thompson | 33 | 33 | 27.353 | 15.502 | 42.855 | 4-wheel change |
Dean Thompson | 62 | 62 | 27.117 | 15.749 | 42.866 | 4-wheel change |
Taylor Gray | 62 | 62 | 27.083 | 14.314 | 41.397 | 4-wheel change |
Taylor Gray | 100 | 99 | 26.722 | 15.248 | 41.970 | 4-wheel change |
Taylor Gray | 33 | 33 | 27.137 | 15.181 | 42.318 | 4-wheel change |
Nicholas Sanchez | 62 | 62 | 27.377 | 14.854 | 42.231 | 4-wheel change |
Nicholas Sanchez | 33 | 33 | 26.876 | 16.350 | 43.226 | 4-wheel change |
Nicholas Sanchez | 78 | 78 | 27.458 | 16.447 | 43.905 | 4-wheel change |
Rajah Caruth | 97 | 96 | 26.944 | 15.515 | 42.459 | 4-wheel change |
Rajah Caruth | 62 | 62 | 27.238 | 15.815 | 43.053 | 4-wheel change |
Rajah Caruth | 33 | 33 | 26.738 | 18.052 | 44.790 | 4-wheel change |
Jake Garcia | 102 | 101 | 27.807 | 20.286 | 48.093 | 4-wheel change |
Jake Garcia | 63 | 63 | 29.774 | 21.086 | 50.860 | 4-wheel change |
Kaden Honeycutt | 62 | 62 | 27.075 | 17.216 | 44.291 | 4-wheel change |
Kaden Honeycutt | 33 | 33 | 27.258 | 17.051 | 44.309 | 4-wheel change |
Kaden Honeycutt | 99 | 98 | 27.104 | 21.852 | 48.956 | 4-wheel change |
Connor Mosack | 78 | 78 | 27.035 | 15.648 | 42.683 | 4-wheel change |
Connor Mosack | 62 | 62 | 27.407 | 16.349 | 43.756 | 4-wheel change |
Connor Mosack | 33 | 33 | 27.627 | 16.517 | 44.144 | 4-wheel change |
Layne Riggs | 78 | 78 | 27.181 | 15.246 | 42.427 | 4-wheel change |
Layne Riggs | 62 | 62 | 26.784 | 15.882 | 42.666 | 4-wheel change |
Layne Riggs | 33 | 33 | 27.934 | 23.256 | 51.190 | 4-wheel change |
Marco Andretti | 113 | 110 | 28.241 | 20.186 | 48.427 | 4-wheel change |
Marco Andretti | 63 | 62 | 29.250 | 22.657 | 51.907 | 4-wheel change |
Daniel Dye | 99 | 98 | 27.347 | 16.049 | 43.396 | 4-wheel change |
Daniel Dye | 62 | 62 | 28.541 | 20.653 | 49.194 | 4-wheel change |
Daniel Dye | 33 | 33 | 30.398 | 19.819 | 50.217 | 4-wheel change |
William Sawalich | 62 | 62 | 27.446 | 16.416 | 43.862 | 4-wheel change |
William Sawalich | 106 | 105 | 26.950 | 17.512 | 44.462 | 4-wheel change |
William Sawalich | 33 | 33 | 28.075 | 18.051 | 46.126 | 4-wheel change |
Conner Jones | 62 | 62 | 30.209 | 17.450 | 47.659 | 4-wheel change |
Conner Jones | 34 | 33 | 28.500 | 20.553 | 49.053 | 4-wheel change |
Conner Jones | 81 | 78 | 28.552 | 22.103 | 50.655 | 4-wheel change |
Connor Zilisch | 99 | 98 | 27.392 | 16.116 | 43.508 | 4-wheel change |
Connor Zilisch | 33 | 33 | 28.644 | 18.418 | 47.062 | 4-wheel change |
Connor Zilisch | 63 | 63 | 31.111 | 26.392 | 57.503 | 4-wheel change |
Dawson Sutton | 114 | 113 | 27.761 | 17.550 | 45.311 | 4-wheel change |
Dawson Sutton | 62 | 62 | 29.997 | 20.086 | 50.083 | 4-wheel change |
Dawson Sutton | 33 | 33 | 28.920 | 29.028 | 57.948 | 4-wheel change |
Nathan Byrd | 34 | 33 | 29.151 | 24.891 | 54.042 | 4-wheel change |
Nathan Byrd | 63 | 62 | 29.910 | 25.157 | 55.067 | 4-wheel change |
Justin Mondeik | 105 | 101 | 28.655 | 25.059 | 53.714 | 4-wheel change |
Justin Mondeik | 63 | 61 | 29.833 | 25.327 | 55.160 | 4-wheel change |
Justin Mondeik | 34 | 33 | 30.191 | 26.293 | 56.484 | 4-wheel change |
Corey Day | 100 | 99 | 28.489 | 16.483 | 44.972 | 4-wheel change |
Corey Day | 33 | 33 | 28.639 | 21.421 | 50.060 | 4-wheel change |