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Kubota Tractor 200

Friday, September 27th, 2024

Kansas Speedway, Kansas City, KS

  • 20 Chevrolet
  • 7 Ford
  • 7 Toyota

  • Wednesday, September 25th, 2024
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Reid Spencer
Truck Series Playoff field will be cut to eight at Kansas Speedway

Three drivers occupy comfortable positions, and two are in peril as the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series visits Kansas Speedway for Friday’s Kubota Tractor 200 (8:30 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio).

Based on their respective performances in the first two events of the series Playoffs, Christian Eckes, Corey Heim and Nick Sanchez already have clinched berths in the Round of 8.

On the other hand, both defending series champion Ben Rhodes and Playoff newbie Daniel Dye face elimination if they can’t erase 12- and seven-point deficits, respectively, to the current cut line for the next round.

Heim, Eckes and eighth-place Grant Enfinger are the three most recent Kansas winners. Heim dominated the 2024 spring race, winning the first stage, finishing second in Stage 2 and beating Zane Smith to the finish line by 1.088 seconds.

The remarkable aspect of the Playoffs so far doesn’t involve a Playoff driver. Rookie Layne Riggs, driving the No. 38 Ford for Front Row Motorsports, won his first two NCTS races in the Playoff events at the Milwaukee Mile and Bristol Motor Speedway.

The 22-year-old from Bahama, N.C., goes for a sweep of the round on Friday.

“It’s an unbelievable feeling of what this team and I have accomplished these past two races,” said Riggs, son of former NASCAR driver Scott Riggs. “It stings a little that we’re not in the Playoffs, but that pushes us even more.

“I’m a rookie driver with a rookie crew chief (Dylan Cappello). It wasn’t going to be easy, but things are starting to click, and I’m proud of the progression we’ve made as a group.”

  • Kubota Tractor 200
  • Pole Winner: Ty Majeski
  • Age: 30
  • Team : No 98 - Soda Sense/Curb Records Ford
  • Owner: Mike Curb
  • Crew Chief: Joe Shear Jr
  • Ty Majeski won the Pole Award for the Kubota Tractor 200 with a lap of 30853 seconds, 175023 mph
  • This is his 10th pole in 85 NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races
  • This is his fifth pole and 16th top-10 start in 2024
  • This is his first pole in eight races at Kansas Speedway
  • Connor Mosack (second) posted his third top-10 start of 2024 and his second in two races at Kansas Speedway
  • Christian Eckes (third) posted his seventh top-10 start at Kansas Speedway It is his 17th in 19 races this season
  • Layne Riggs (13th) was the fastest qualifying rookie

  • Friday, September 27th, 2024
  • NASCAR Wire Service - Reid Spencer
Corey Heim completes season sweep at Kansas in NASCAR Truck elimination race

Corey Heim won Friday night’s Kubota Tractor 200 in the fastest truck, but he needed help from fellow Playoff driver Ty Majeski to secure the victory in the NASCAR CRAFTSMAN Truck Series Round of 10 elimination race at Kansas Speedway.

Majeski ran out of fuel approaching the white flag while leading, allowing Heim to surge past in his No. 11 TRICON Garage Toyota and claim his sixth victory of the season in a race that saw reigning series champion Ben Rhodes and Playoff rookie Daniel Dye eliminated from title contention.

Under the third and final caution on Lap 78 of the 134-lap race, Majeski came to pit road for tires and fuel, along with ThorSport Racing teammate Rhodes and eventual fourth-place finisher Kaden Honeycutt.

Heim, runner-up Layne Riggs and third-place finisher Christian Eckes stayed on track during the caution and made green-flag pit stops within the final 30 laps. Heim, who started the race from the rear of the field after hitting the outside wall and cutting a tire in practice earlier in the day, was chasing Majeski when the latter ran out of fuel.

Majeski, who had clinched a berth in the Round of 8 with his win in Stage 1, rolled home in 15th, the last driver on the lead lap.

“We were the best truck all night—it’s my favorite track, I love coming here,” said Heim, who won at the 1.5-mile speedway in the spring. “I look forward to this. I had a smile on my face all week coming to this place.

“I just thought we could sweep the year here. It’s an awesome place to come. I certainly thought we had it lost there to the 98 (Majeski), almost making it on fuel, but it just shows my team made the right call.”

The victory was Heim’s second at Kansas and the 11th of his career. He led a race-high 64 laps in an event that featured 10 lead changes among three drivers.

Heim, Eckes and Nick Sanchez had clinched spots in the Round of 8 in the second race of the Round of 10 at Bristol. Majeski, seventh-place finisher Rajah Caruth, ninth-place Grant Enfinger, 14th-place Tyler Ankrum and 18th-place Taylor Gray advanced on points Friday night.

In the closing laps, there was real suspense regarding the fortunes of two-time series champion Rhodes and Enfinger. Rhodes was on the same strategy as Majeski and ran as high as third as the race neared its conclusion.

But Enfinger gained positions as Rhodes lost them in the late going, and the die was cast when Rhodes ran out of fuel.

“We qualified fourth, and at the start of the race—massive changes with the truck,” said Rhodes, who won titles in 2021 and 2023. “We could not get it tightened up… Still kind of unacceptable. If we’d have gotten our stage points, it would have taken care of itself.”

Rhodes came home 22nd after running out of fuel and fell 25 points short of Enfinger for the final spot in the Round of 8.

“It was definitely a little bit stressful, definitely too close for comfort there,” Enfinger said. “This is a round we want to forget. We snuck through here, and now we’re looking forward to going to Talladega next week (for the first race in the Round of 8).”

Dye scraped the outside wall twice during the first stage and made multiple pit stops, falling three laps down. He finished 27th and, like Enfinger, was 25 points away from advancing to the next round.

Riggs, who didn’t qualify for the Playoffs in his rookie season, added the runner-up finish to his two victories in the previous two races.

Dawson Sutton ran fifth, followed by Tanner Gray, Caruth, Bayley Currey, Enfinger and Connor Mosack.

  • Drivers Entered: 34
  • Laps Scheduled: 134
  • Margin of Victory: 07.638 Seconds
  • Time of Race: 1 Hours 35 Minutes 50 Seconds
  • Average Speed: 125.843
  • Cautions: 3 for 20 laps
  • Lead Changes: 10
  • Green Flag Passes: 1,382 (12.1 passes per green flag lap)

  • Kubota Tractor 200
  • Race Winner: Corey Heim
  • Age: 22
  • Team : No 11 - Safelite Toyota
  • Owner: Johnny Gray
  • Crew Chief: Scott Zipadelli
  • Corey Heim won the Kubota Tractor 200, his 11th victory in 60 CRAFTSMAN Truck Series races
  • This is his sixth victory and 15th top-10 finish in 2024
  • This is his second victory and fifth top-10 finish in six races at Kansas Speedway
  • Layne Riggs (second) posted his first top-10 finish in two races at Kansas Speedway It is his eighth top-10 finish in 2024
  • Christian Eckes (third) posted his eighth top-10 finish in ten races at Kansas Speedway
  • Layne Riggs (second) was the highest finishing rookie
  • Christian Eckes leads the point standings by 8 points over Corey Heim
Corey Heim takes the checkered flag to win
Kansas City, Kansas - September 27, 2024 : Corey Heim, driver of the #11 Safelite Toyota, takes the checkered flag to win the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Kubota Tractor 200 at Kansas Speedway.
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Kubota Tractor 200 at Kansas Speedway results
FIN ST # DRIVER MAKE TOT PTS FIN PTS STG PTS PO PTS LAPS LED X LED S1 S2 STATUS
9 19 9 Grant Enfinger Chevrolet 28 28 0 0 134 0 0 0 0 Running
25 26 88 Matt Crafton Ford 12 12 0 0 132 0 0 0 0 Running
23 30 56 Timmy Hill Toyota 14 14 0 0 132 0 0 0 0 Running
8 22 41 Bayley Currey Chevrolet 31 29 2 0 134 0 0 0 9 Running
28 28 76 Spencer Boyd Chevrolet 9 9 0 0 129 0 0 0 0 Running
33 12 42 Matt Mills Chevrolet 4 4 0 0 75 0 0 0 0 Accident
24 8 52 Stewart Friesen Toyota 15 13 2 0 132 0 0 9 0 Running
22 4 99 Ben Rhodes Ford 15 15 0 0 133 0 0 0 0 Running
31 34 10 Jennifer Jo Cobb Chevrolet 6 6 0 0 89 0 0 0 0 Electrical
14 14 18 Tyler Ankrum Chevrolet 23 23 0 0 134 0 0 0 0 Running
3 3 19 Christian Eckes Chevrolet 51 34 17 0 134 19 4 2 3 Running
11 15 77 Chase Purdy Chevrolet 26 26 0 0 134 0 0 0 0 Running
15 1 98 Ty Majeski Ford 40 22 17 1 134 51 3 1 4 Running
6 21 15 Tanner Gray Toyota 38 31 7 0 134 0 0 8 7 Running
17 29 44 Conor Daly Chevrolet 0 0 0 0 133 0 0 0 0 Running
1 33 11 Corey Heim Toyota 64 40 18 6 134 64 3 3 1 Running
30 24 33 Lawless Alan Ford 7 7 0 0 128 0 0 0 0 Running
13 11 5 Dean Thompson Toyota 24 24 0 0 134 0 0 0 0 Running
16 20 32 Bret Holmes Chevrolet 21 21 0 0 133 0 0 0 0 Running
18 17 17 Taylor Gray Toyota 29 19 10 0 133 0 0 7 5 Running
12 7 2 Nicholas Sanchez Chevrolet 35 25 10 0 134 0 0 6 6 Running
7 16 71 Rajah Caruth Chevrolet 31 30 1 0 134 0 0 0 10 Running
21 9 13 Jake Garcia Ford 16 16 0 0 133 0 0 0 0 Running
4 6 45 Kaden Honeycutt Chevrolet 43 33 10 0 134 0 0 4 8 Running
10 2 7 Connor Mosack Chevrolet 28 27 1 0 134 0 0 10 0 Running
2 13 38 Layne Riggs Ford 50 35 15 0 134 0 0 5 2 Running
34 25 04 Marco Andretti Chevrolet 3 3 0 0 43 0 0 0 0 Brakes
27 10 43 Daniel Dye Chevrolet 10 10 0 0 131 0 0 0 0 Running
29 31 22 Frankie Muniz Ford 8 8 0 0 129 0 0 0 0 Running
20 23 1 Brenden Queen Toyota 17 17 0 0 133 0 0 0 0 Running
5 5 25 Dawson Sutton Chevrolet 32 32 0 0 134 0 0 0 0 Running
19 32 02 Nathan Byrd Chevrolet 0 0 0 0 133 0 0 0 0 Running
26 27 46 Justin Mondeik Chevrolet 11 11 0 0 131 0 0 0 0 Running
32 18 91 Corey Day Chevrolet 5 5 0 0 75 0 0 0 0 Accident

Race Infractions

Penalties imposed prior to or during the race.

Driver Infraction Penalty Lap Lap Assessed Flag
Corey Heim Pre-Race to the Rear Unapproved Adjustments Tail End 0 0 White
Conor Daly Unspecified Going below the white line on the start Pass Thru 0 4 Green
Jennifer Jo Cobb Crewmember(s) over the wall too soon Tail End 34 37 Yellow
Nathan Byrd Speeding on pit road Tail End 34 37 Yellow
Marco Andretti Unspecified Equipment over the wall too soon Pass Thru 39 43 Green
Dawson Sutton Speeding on pit road Tail End 64 68 Yellow
Tyler Ankrum Tire violation Tail End 64 68 Yellow
Brenden Queen Tire violation Tail End 64 68 Yellow
Matt Crafton Pitting before pit road is open Tail End 67 68 Yellow
Daniel Dye Pitting before pit road is open Tail End 67 68 Yellow
Justin Mondeik Pitting before pit road is open Tail End 82 83 Yellow
Jennifer Jo Cobb Pitting before pit road is open Tail End 82 83 Yellow
Nathan Byrd Pitting before pit road is open Tail End 82 83 Yellow
Daniel Dye Pitting before pit road is open Tail End 82 83 Yellow
Spencer Boyd Pitting before pit road is open Tail End 82 83 Yellow
Ben Rhodes Pitting before pit road is open Tail End 82 83 Yellow
Jennifer Jo Cobb Unspecified Was not in the longest line for the restart Pass Thru 83 85 Green
Matt Crafton Unspecified Going below the white line on the restart Pass Thru 83 88 Green
Matt Crafton Commitment Line Violation Pass Thru 88 90 Green
Lawless Alan Too many crewmember(s) in contact with pit service area Pass Thru 88 92 Green