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CRC Brakleen 175

Friday, July 12th, 2024

Pocono Raceway, Long Pond, PA

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  • Friday, July 12th, 2024
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Holly Cain
Just three races left in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series regular season

The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series returns to competition after a week break with only three races remaining to set the 2024 10-driver Playoff field.

McAnally-Hilgemann Racing driver Christian Eckes shows up at Pocono Raceway for Friday’s CRC Brakleen 175 (5:30 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) fresh off one of the most dominating performances of the season. The three-race winner led every lap in winning the most recent Truck Series race, two weeks ago at Nashville.

There are four drivers with guaranteed Playoff positions – four-race winner Corey Heim, three-race winner Christian Eckes, two-race winner Nick Sanchez and a first-time series’ winner, Rajah Caruth. Ty Majeski is fifth in the Playoff standings with a healthy 144-point edge on the cutoff line. Tyler Ankrum, Taylor Gray, reigning series champ Ben Rhodes, Grant Enfinger and Tanner Gray are currently above the Playoff cut line.

Tanner Gray holds only a slim 14-point advantage on Daniel Dye and a 17-point advantage on veteran Stewart Friesen in that final position. Three-time series champion Matt Crafton is 54 points behind Gray.

NASCAR Cup Series’ champion Kyle Busch earned his third Pocono Truck Series win last year. There are no former winners entered this week. Heim, who has won three races just since May, finished runner-up to Busch last summer and was fourth in his debut at the Tricky Triangle in 2022.

A pair of NASCAR Cup Series drivers are on the Pocono entry list. Ross Chastain will run the No. 45 Neice Motorsports Chevrolet and former Truck Series champion Zane Smith will drive the No. 91 McAnally-Hilgemann Racing Chevrolet.

Heim, Taylor Gray and Dye will all pull double-duty competing in both the trucks and Xfinity Series races at Pocono.

  • CRC Brakleen 175
  • Pole Winner: Christian Eckes
  • Age: 23
  • Team : No 19 - NAPA Auto Care Chevrolet
  • Owner: Bill McAnally
  • Crew Chief: Charles Denike
  • Christian Eckes won the Pole Award for the CRC Brakleen 175 with a lap of 0 seconds, 0000 mph
  • This is his eighth pole in 105 NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races
  • This is his second pole and 12th top-10 start in 2024
  • This is his first pole in six races at Pocono Raceway
  • Corey Heim (second) posted his seventh top-10 start of 2024 and his second in three races at Pocono Raceway
  • Rajah Caruth (third) posted his second top-10 start at Pocono Raceway It is his seventh in 14 races this season
  • Layne Riggs (17th) was the fastest qualifying rookie

  • Friday, July 12th, 2024
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Holly Cain
Corey Heim earns his fifth win this season at Pocono Raceway

Corey Heim earned his series’ best fifth victory of the season in Friday evening’s rain-interrupted CRC Brakleen 175 at Pocono (Pa.) Raceway. The 21-year old swept both stages and led 55 of the 70 laps to add to his trophy total.

But, he had to battle competitors and climate for this win.

The Georgian’s No. 11 TRICON Garage Toyota led Grant Enfinger’s Chevrolet across the finish line by .867-second to take his 10th career victory – quickly re-establishing himself as the race leader – again – on the final re-start with three laps remaining.

“It started from the very beginning, we’ve had such a close bond,’’ Heim said of his strong working relationship with crew chief Scott Zippidelli and the career-best single season win mark.

“Week in and week out, so proud of these guys, can’t say enough about them,’’ Heim said.

Rain drops covered the windshields of the trucks – particularly in Turn 2 of the 2.5-mile Pocono track – and eventually brought out a caution flag for weather with only nine laps remaining in the race. But after parking on pit road for just over 10 minutes of red-flag stoppage, the field returned to the track for a lap only to come back down pit road again as the rain got heavier with seven laps remaining.

Not surprisingly Heim immediately told his crew the rain was substantial. Enfinger, who was 2.2-seconds behind Heim at the time of the initial red flag, was optimistic it was going to be a brief shower. NASCAR had already determined before the green flag that the race would be official no matter the circumstance at 8:20 p.m. ET – approximately one hour and 10 minutes after the first red flag waved Friday evening.

But the sun shone on the re-start allowing enough laps to complete the race – a light rain beginning again during driver’s post-race interviews.

Enfinger’s second-place finish equals his best mark of the year – also at North Wilkesboro, N.C. – and certainly helped solidify the CR7 Motorsports driver’s position in the Playoff standings. He is seventh place with only two races remaining before the 2024 Playoffs begin Aug. 25 at the Milwaukee Mile Speedway.

McAnally Hilgemann’s Christian Eckes finished third, followed by TRICON Garage’s Taylor Gray and NASCAR Cup Series regular Ross Chastain, driving for Niece Motorsports.

The closing laps featured close racing up front with many among the lead pack having to be conscious about saving fuel – a variable then made moot with the rain stoppage. Heim was trying to hold off the hard-charging, highly-motivated veteran Enfinger, who was racing for his first win of the season while Eckes had to hold off Chastain for third place.

The pole-winner Eckes led the race’s opening 11 laps in the No. 19 McAnally Hilgemann Chevy and finished second to race-winner Heim in both stages. But a slow pit stop during the secong stage break forced Eckes to play catch-up. He restarted 10th but was up to fourth place within five laps and continued to move forward.

He rallied to that ultimate third-place showing giving him a series best 12-race streak of Top-10 finishes and he still holds a 32-point edge on Heim for the regular season championship.

The first caution flag for a race incident came out with 26 laps remaining when Rajah Caruth spun on track. At the time Heim led Chastain by almost 3-seconds. As the trucks drove under caution, drivers were alerted that rain was imminent, so the front-runners did not pit.

Chase Purdy, Stewart Friesen, Matt Crafton, Dean Thompson and Caruth rounded out the Top-10.

With only two races remaining to set the 10-driver Playoff field, Daniel Dye holds a single-point edge on Tanner Gray in that 10th position and a slight four-point advantage over Friesen.

Only four fulltime series drivers have won this season to claim automatic Playoff berths including Heim, Eckes, Friday’s 13thplace finisher Nick Sanchez and Caruth.

  • Drivers Entered: 36
  • Laps Scheduled: 60
  • Laps Actual: 70 - NASCAR OVERTIME!
  • Margin of Victory: 0.867 Seconds
  • Time of Race: 1 Hours 32 Minutes 42 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 113.269
  • Cautions: 4 for 17 laps
  • Lead Changes: 3
  • Green Flag Passes: 1,103 (20.8 passes per green flag lap)

  • CRC Brakleen 175
  • Race Winner: Corey Heim
  • Age: 22
  • Team : No 11 - Safelite Toyota
  • Owner: Johnny Gray
  • Crew Chief: Scott Zipadelli
  • Corey Heim won the CRC Brakleen 175, his 10th victory in 55 CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races
  • This is his fifth victory and 12th top-10 finish in 2024
  • This is his first victory and third top-10 finish in three races at Pocono Raceway
  • Grant Enfinger (second) posted his fourth top-10 finish in eight races at Pocono Raceway It is his sixth top-10 finish in 2024
  • Christian Eckes (third) posted his fourth top-10 finish in six races at Pocono Raceway
  • Thad Moffitt (29th) was the highest finishing rookie
  • Christian Eckes leads the point standings by 32 points over Corey Heim
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Pit Stop Summary Report

Summary of each driver's pit stop during the race. Detailed Report is below the Summary Report.

Average Driver and Crew Pit Stop Time
CRC Brakleen 175 at Pocono Raceway Pit Stop Summary
DRIVER ST FIN STATUS # STOPS AVG DRV TIME DRV RNK AVG CREW TIME CREW RANK AVG TOT TIME TOT RNK FASTEST STOP SLOWEST STOP
Nicholas Sanchez 9 13 Running 3 17.405 1 14.063 3 31.468 1 8.406 43.656
Chase Purdy 16 6 Running 2 30.882 28 8.809 1 39.691 2 38.337 41.044
Ben Rhodes 7 18 Running 2 28.125 14 13.563 2 41.688 3 38.413 44.963
Matt Mills 13 11 Running 2 27.878 10 15.515 4 43.393 4 38.413 48.373
Corey Heim 2 1 Running 1 26.931 2 16.850 9 43.781 5 43.781 43.781
Taylor Gray 19 4 Running 1 27.128 4 17.051 10 44.179 6 44.179 44.179
Ross Chastain 27 5 Running 2 28.018 12 16.517 6 44.535 7 44.485 44.584
Tyler Ankrum 4 14 Running 2 28.141 15 16.484 5 44.624 8 43.695 45.553
Tanner Gray 11 19 Running 1 27.420 6 17.528 13 44.948 9 44.948 44.948
Bayley Currey 20 17 Running 3 28.373 16 16.581 7 44.954 10 37.648 50.954
Grant Enfinger 8 2 Running 1 28.068 13 17.116 11 45.184 11 45.184 45.184
Dean Thompson 22 9 Running 2 28.674 19 16.789 8 45.463 12 38.564 52.362
Daniel Dye 5 16 Running 1 27.360 5 18.603 17 45.963 13 45.963 45.963
Connor Mosack 18 15 Running 3 27.593 8 18.478 16 46.071 14 42.943 51.766
Bret Holmes 30 12 Running 2 28.624 18 17.484 12 46.108 15 46.062 46.153
Stewart Friesen 10 7 Running 1 26.933 3 19.498 18 46.431 16 46.431 46.431
Rajah Caruth 3 10 Running 2 29.306 24 17.689 14 46.995 17 45.182 48.808
Matt Crafton 15 8 Running 2 27.617 9 20.370 20 47.986 18 46.420 49.552
Zane Smith 21 20 Running 3 29.748 27 18.274 15 48.022 19 46.739 50.376
Lawless Alan 24 32 Running 2 28.829 22 20.051 19 48.880 20 45.316 52.443
Christian Eckes 1 3 Running 1 27.904 11 21.494 22 49.398 21 49.398 49.398
Timmy Hill 25 23 Running 3 27.486 7 22.131 24 49.617 22 46.287 51.393
Layne Riggs 17 30 Running 3 29.313 25 21.933 23 51.246 23 47.565 56.475
Jake Garcia 12 21 Running 1 29.542 26 22.617 25 52.159 24 52.159 52.159
Ty Dillon 14 25 Running 1 28.377 17 23.950 26 52.327 25 52.327 52.327
Justin Carroll 36 28 Running 2 32.135 29 20.468 21 52.603 26 43.073 62.132
Kris Wright 26 26 Running 1 28.819 21 23.991 27 52.810 27 52.810 52.810
Luke Fenhaus 28 22 Running 2 28.722 20 25.353 28 54.075 28 53.792 54.357
Ty Majeski 6 31 Running 1 28.836 23 28.562 30 57.398 29 57.398 57.398
Mason Maggio 32 27 Running 1 33.204 30 27.593 29 60.797 30 60.797 60.797

Pit Stop Detailed Report

Each 2- and 4-wheel pit stop during the race.

CRC Brakleen 175 at Pocono Raceway Pit Stop Detail
DRIVER LDR LAP DRV LAP DRV TIME CREW TIME TOT TIME TYPE
Grant Enfinger 32 32 28.068 17.116 45.184 4-wheel change
Matt Crafton 32 32 27.635 18.785 46.420 4-wheel change
Matt Crafton 16 16 27.598 21.954 49.552 4-wheel change
Timmy Hill 45 45 27.135 19.152 46.287 4-wheel change
Timmy Hill 17 16 28.080 23.090 51.170 4-wheel change
Timmy Hill 65 64 27.242 24.151 51.393 4-wheel change
Ty Dillon 45 45 28.377 23.950 52.327 4-wheel change
Ross Chastain 16 16 28.203 16.282 44.485 4-wheel change
Ross Chastain 32 32 27.833 16.751 44.584 4-wheel change
Bayley Currey 45 45 28.506 9.142 37.648 Right-sides only
Bayley Currey 65 64 27.913 18.346 46.259 4-wheel change
Bayley Currey 33 32 28.700 22.254 50.954 4-wheel change
Matt Mills 32 32 27.635 10.778 38.413 Right-sides only
Matt Mills 16 16 28.121 20.252 48.373 4-wheel change
Zane Smith 65 64 29.592 17.147 46.739 4-wheel change
Zane Smith 33 32 27.826 19.125 46.951 4-wheel change
Zane Smith 19 17 31.825 18.551 50.376 4-wheel change
Kris Wright 17 16 28.819 23.991 52.810 4-wheel change
Stewart Friesen 32 32 26.933 19.498 46.431 4-wheel change
Ben Rhodes 45 45 29.104 9.309 38.413 Right-sides only
Ben Rhodes 16 16 27.146 17.817 44.963 4-wheel change
Tyler Ankrum 45 45 27.412 16.283 43.695 4-wheel change
Tyler Ankrum 32 32 28.869 16.684 45.553 4-wheel change
Christian Eckes 32 32 27.904 21.494 49.398 4-wheel change
Chase Purdy 32 32 30.463 7.874 38.337 Left-sides only
Chase Purdy 16 16 31.301 9.743 41.044 Right-sides only
Ty Majeski 32 32 28.836 28.562 57.398 4-wheel change
Tanner Gray 32 32 27.420 17.528 44.948 4-wheel change
Corey Heim 32 32 26.931 16.850 43.781 4-wheel change
Lawless Alan 65 62 29.171 16.145 45.316 4-wheel change
Lawless Alan 46 44 28.487 23.956 52.443 4-wheel change
Dean Thompson 32 32 30.222 8.342 38.564 Right-sides only
Dean Thompson 16 16 27.126 25.236 52.362 4-wheel change
Bret Holmes 32 32 28.377 17.685 46.062 4-wheel change
Bret Holmes 17 16 28.870 17.283 46.153 4-wheel change
Taylor Gray 27 26 27.128 17.051 44.179 4-wheel change
Nicholas Sanchez 42 41 -1.919 10.325 8.406 Right-sides only
Nicholas Sanchez 27 26 26.959 15.382 42.341 4-wheel change
Nicholas Sanchez 16 16 27.174 16.482 43.656 4-wheel change
Rajah Caruth 32 32 27.555 17.627 45.182 4-wheel change
Rajah Caruth 46 45 31.057 17.751 48.808 4-wheel change
Jake Garcia 65 64 29.542 22.617 52.159 4-wheel change
Justin Carroll 18 17 31.198 11.875 43.073 Right-sides only
Justin Carroll 33 32 33.071 29.061 62.132 4-wheel change
Connor Mosack 32 32 27.861 15.082 42.943 4-wheel change
Connor Mosack 45 45 27.756 15.749 43.505 4-wheel change
Connor Mosack 16 16 27.162 24.604 51.766 4-wheel change
Mason Maggio 33 32 33.204 27.593 60.797 4-wheel change
Layne Riggs 46 44 29.748 17.817 47.565 4-wheel change
Layne Riggs 34 33 29.243 20.454 49.697 4-wheel change
Layne Riggs 17 16 28.947 27.528 56.475 4-wheel change
Daniel Dye 32 32 27.360 18.603 45.963 4-wheel change
Luke Fenhaus 32 32 29.042 24.750 53.792 4-wheel change
Luke Fenhaus 65 64 28.402 25.955 54.357 4-wheel change