With Corey Heim’s win at Richmond, the 2025 regular season for the Craftsman Truck Series is over and the field for the playoffs is officially set. (Stewart Friesen, injured in a fiery wreck in a dirt modified race, declined a medical waiver and gave Kaden Honeycutt, in on points, his ride.) And so it is time for me to make my predictions for the playoffs. As always, if I am right, you’ll never hear the end of it. If I am wrong, you’ll never hear about this again.
Oh, and one more thing, I picked Ty Majeski to win last year’s championship and “I was right, I was right!!!” Anyways, on with the picks.
Eliminated after the Round of 10: Daniel Hemric and Tyler Ankrum
Eliminated after the Round of 8: Jake Garcia, Rajah Caruth, Ty Majeski, and Kaden Honeycutt
Championship 4: Corey Heim, Layne Riggs, Chandler Smith and Grant Enfinger
2025 Craftsman Truck Series Championship: Corey Heim
Notes: Okay, if you read a previous article, you’ll note that my feeling is that Heim basically HAS to win this championship. Otherwise, it’s going to be a horrible look for a playoff system that already has a lot of detractors. (Not that I’m one of them.) The addition of Riggs and Smith in the Championship 4 feels like a no-brainer. (Keep scrolling down to hear my thoughts on them as well.)
I almost went with Majeski to complete the foursome but decided to go with Enfinger. (Enfinger would be the feel-good story of 2025 if he upset “The Big Three” and claimed the title.)
I think the question of who will be eliminated in the first round might be the most interesting. The success of Heim might also be seen as coming at the cost of any momentum from most of the others in the field. Hemric and Ankrum could be replaced by any combination of Caruth, Garcia and Honeycutt. I actually had Honeycutt out after the first round instead of Ankrum but decided Honeycutt running on behalf of Friesen would be enough to get him through to the Round of 8. (No matter how Honeycutt does, he’s going to be this year’s version of Layne Riggs, but just coming out of nowhere to make the playoffs.)
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