2025 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series

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Ty Majeski enters the season as the defending Truck Series Champion. Ty majeski (52260230727) (cropped).jpg
Ty Majeski enters the season as the defending Truck Series Champion.

The 2025 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series will be the 31st season of the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series, a stock car racing series sanctioned by NASCAR in the United States. The season will start on February 14 with the Fresh From Florida 250 at Daytona International Speedway and will end with the Craftsman 150 on October 31 at Phoenix Raceway.

Ty Majeski enters the season as the 2024 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Champion. [1]

Teams and drivers

Full-time teams

ManufacturerTeamNo.DriverCrew chiefReferences
Chevrolet CR7 Motorsports 9 Grant Enfinger TBA [2] [3]
Freedom Racing Enterprises 76 Spencer Boyd TBA [4] [5]
McAnally-Hilgemann Racing 18 Tyler Ankrum Mark Hillman [6]
19 Daniel Hemric TBA [7]
81 Connor Mosack (R) Blake Bainbridge [8]
91 Jack Wood Kevin Bellicourt [9]
Niece Motorsports 42 Matt Mills TBA [10]
44 Christian Rose (R)TBA [11]
45 Kaden Honeycutt (R)Phil Gould [12]
Rackley W.A.R. 26 Dawson Sutton (R)Chad Kendrick [13] [14]
Spire Motorsports 71 Rajah Caruth TBA [15]
Ford Front Row Motorsports 38 Layne Riggs TBA [16] [3]
Reaume Brothers Racing 33 Frankie Muniz (R)TBA [17]
Toyota Tricon Garage 1TBAJake Hampton [18]
5 Toni Breidinger (R)Derek Smith [19] [18]
11 Corey Heim Scott Zipadelli [20] [18]
15 Tanner Gray Jeff Hensley [21] [18]
17 Gio Ruggiero (R)Jerame Donley [22] [18]

Limited schedule

ManufacturerTeamNo.DriverCrew chiefRacesReferences
Chevrolet FDNY Racing 28 Bryan Dauzat TBA4 [23]

Driver changes

Moving series

Full-time rides

Team changes

Schedule

The 2025 schedule was released on August 29, 2024 and consists of 22 oval races and 3 road course races. [29] The schedule has 25 races for the first time since 2011. With the season-finale at Phoenix being on October 31, the season will finish in the month of October for the first time since 2000.

Notes:

NoRace title Track LocationDateTime [30] TV [30] Radio
1 Fresh From Florida 250  O  Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, Florida February 147:30 pmFS1 MRN
2 Fr8 208  O  Atlanta Motor Speedway Hampton, Georgia February 222 pm
3 Victoria's Voice Foundation 200  O  Las Vegas Motor Speedway Las Vegas, Nevada March 149 pm
4 Baptist Health Cancer Care 200  O  Homestead-Miami Speedway Homestead, Florida March 218 pmFox
5 Long John Silver's 200  O  Martinsville Speedway Ridgeway, Virginia March 287:30 pmFS1
6 Weather Guard Truck Race  O  Bristol Motor Speedway Bristol, Tennessee April 117:30 pm
7 TBA  O  Rockingham Speedway Rockingham, North Carolina April 185 pm
8 SpeedyCash.com 250  O  Texas Motor Speedway Fort Worth, Texas May 28 pm
9 Heart of America 200  O  Kansas Speedway Kansas City, Kansas May 107:30 pm
10 Wright Brand 250  O  North Wilkesboro Speedway North Wilkesboro, North Carolina May 171:30 pm
11 North Carolina Education Lottery 200  O  Charlotte Motor Speedway Concord, North Carolina May 238:30 pm
12 Rackley Roofing 200  O  Nashville Superspeedway Lebanon, Tennessee May 308 pm
13 TBA  O  Michigan International Speedway Brooklyn, Michigan June 712 pmFox
14 CRC Brakleen 175  O  Pocono Raceway Long Pond, Pennsylvania June 205 pmFS1
15 TBA  R  Lime Rock Park Lakeville, Connecticut June 281 pmFox
16 TSport 200  O  Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park Clermont, Indiana July 258 pmFS1
17 TBA  R  Watkins Glen International Watkins Glen, New York August 85 pm
18 Clean Harbors 250  O  Richmond Raceway Richmond, Virginia August 157:30 pm
NASCAR Truck Series Playoffs
Round of 10
19 Buckle Up South Carolina 200  O  Darlington Raceway Darlington, South Carolina August 3012 pmFS1MRN
20 UNOH 200  O  Bristol Motor Speedway Bristol, Tennessee September 118 pm
21 TBA  O  New Hampshire Motor Speedway Loudon, New Hampshire September 2012 pm
Round of 8
22 TBA  R  Charlotte Motor Speedway (Roval) Concord, North Carolina October 33:30 pmFS1MRN
23 Love's RV Stop 225  O  Talladega Superspeedway Lincoln, Alabama October 173:30 pm
24 Zip Buy Now, Pay Later 200  O  Martinsville Speedway Ridgeway, Virginia October 246 pm
Championship 4
25 Craftsman 150  O  Phoenix Raceway Avondale, Arizona October 317:30 pmFS1MRN

Notes:

    O Oval track
    R Road course

    Schedule changes

    Added races

    • Rockingham is on the schedule for the first time since 2013.
    • Michigan is on the schedule for the first time since 2020.
    • Lime Rock Park, a road course in Connecticut, is on the Truck Series schedule for the first time.
    • Watkins Glen is on the schedule for the first time since 2021 and for only the second time since 2000.
    • New Hampshire is on the schedule for the first time since 2017.
    • The Charlotte Roval will have a Truck Series race for the first time.

    Removed races

    • Circuit of the Americas will not be on the schedule in 2025. It is the first time since NASCAR started racing there in 2021 that the track will not have a Truck Series race.
    • Gateway will not be on the schedule for the first time since 2013.
    • Milwaukee will not be on the schedule for the first time since 2022. [31]
    • The fall race at Kansas was taken off the schedule. The track will have only one Truck Series race for the first time since 2021.

    Date changes

    • Homestead–Miami moves from October to March.
    • Nashville moves from June to May.
    • Pocono moves from July to June.
    • The race at Darlington moves from May to Labor Day weekend and will be run on the same weekend as the Cup Series' Southern 500 instead of on the track's spring Cup Series race weekend.

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