Rajah Caruth wins NASCAR Truck race at Nashville in tense end

Rajah Caruth has earned his first victory of the 2025 season and simply the second of his profession, keeping off each Corey Heim and Layne Riggs within the closing laps at Nashville.

Driving the No. 71 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet, Caruth grabbed the lead on pit street on the finish of the second stage. The driving force made probably the most of what his pit crew did for him, by no means surrendering the race lead. 

“I did not anticipate that in any respect,” mentioned Caruth. “These guys have been respiratory down my neck the entire run. My pit crew received that race — Jarius, Zico, Dawson, Josh, Cody — they received that race for us. Due to them, due to everybody at HendrickCars.com, the women and men at Spire Motorsports. We have been off this yr however good to get a dub tonight, man. I am out of breath.”

Heim is the winningest driver of the 2025 season with 4 wins within the first 11 races, together with final weekend’s occasion at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Talking on the runner-up end at Nashville, he mentioned, “I really feel like clear air was the factor (we wanted) tonight. With the third stage being so easy, and the shortage of technique going inexperienced there, it was robust to return again from not having the lead. I slid via my field within the final cease and did not do my guys any favors. Simply one thing to replicate on — on my half.

“However massive congrats to Rajah. He did an superior job managing from the lead and I used to be actually free behind him and he made just about the proper selection each time as for the place I used to be gonna go. It is good racing towards individuals that are not going to wreck you, racing for the race lead.”

Layne Riggs completed an in depth third with Daniel Hemric fourth and Corey Day fifth. Kaden Honeycutt, Chandler Smith, Ty Majeski, Bayley Currey, and Grant Enfinger stuffed out the rest of the highest ten. 

Kyle Busch, who needed to combat again from a penalty for a restart violation, completed fifteenth.

An easy race

The race itself acquired off to a gradual begin after Frankie Muniz’s #33 truck dumped oil all around the observe, with Muniz pressured to tug out of the race with out finishing a single lap below velocity. The one on-track accident occurred on Lap 55 when Jack Wooden and Akinori Ogata spun.

Riggs went on to win the opening stage whereas Heim claimed the Stage 2 win, including one other playoff level to his spectacular complete. 

Whereas Caruth by no means misplaced the lead within the ultimate 47-lap run, Heim definitely got here shut as he acquired to the surface of him with simply six laps to go. Caruth ran him excessive and Heim selected to raise. From that time onward, he had his palms full with Riggs within the battle for second and by no means acquired again alongside Caruth.