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The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series is back in action on Friday night at Martinsville Speedway for the Boys and Girls Club of the Blue Ridge 200. This is the fifth race of the 2025 season.
Through the first four events, there are no major surprises at the top of the standings. Corey Heim is the leader by eight points over Ty Majeski, while Chandler Smith is third. Those three drivers are likely going to remain at the top all year long.
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Post-Qualifying Updates
Check back here after qualifying for some updates on top contenders and top place differential plays.
Top Contenders
No real surprises here. Corey Heim is on the pole and Ty Majeski starts on the front row as well. Chandler Smith starts fourth. William Byron didn't qualify as well as he starts just 13th, but the place differential upside there makes him a candidate to post big DFS numbers as well. At least one of these drivers should be in each of your lineups.
Top Place Differential Plays
- Gio Ruggiero (17th)
- Grant Enfinger (19th)
- Ben Rhodes (20th)
- Tyler Ankrum (24th) - probably my top PD play
- Luke Baldwin (27th)
Fades Because They Qualified Too Well
Some drivers I'm wary of because of where they start:
- Kaden Honeycutt (Third)
- Tanner Gray (Sixth)
- Jake Garcia (Eighth)
- Lawless Alan (Ninth)
Top Drivers
William Byron - $12.5K
Last week, a Hendrick Motorsports Cup Series driver dipped down into the Truck Series and won in the Spire No. 07 truck. Can William Byron follow in Kyle Larson's footsteps and make it two wins in a row for this truck?
Byron has to be viewed as the favorite on Friday night. The current Cup Series points leader has been very good at Martinsville, winning twice here in Cup. That includes the spring race last year, where Byron led 88 of the 415 laps to take the win.
Corey Heim - $11.0K
Four races in, Corey Heim is the only full-time Truck Series driver to win a race, winning twice and almost taking a third before an ECU issue last week. The current points leader has come close in the past two seasons to capturing the Truck Series championship and is certainly building a strong resume early this season that should at least allow him to make the championship race as he racks up playoff points.
David Gilliland on Heim’s power failure at Homestead while leading late: A wire wasn’t properly secured & touched the header. The headers are extremely hot and the heat melted the wire. Once that happens doesn’t take much for ECU to shut off but Corey was smart enough to know how…
— Danielle Trotta (@DanielleTrotta) March 27, 2025
Now, Heim should contend for his third win of the year at a track where he won in 2023, leading 82 laps of the 124 that were run. Last year, he finished in the top 10 in both races at Martinsville.
Ty Majeski - $10.5K
We're at a short track, so Ty Majeski has to be considered a favorite. Of his six Truck Series victories, four have come at true short tracks and another at Phoenix, a one-mile track.
None of those wins have come at Martinsville...yet. In this race last spring, Majeski led 66 laps after winning the pole and finished second. He'll have a good shot to capture the victory on Friday night.
Chandler Smith - $9.3K
I think we all knew Chandler Smith would be a problem this year. He's too talented to be back in the Truck Series and he's proven that already with four top 10s in the first four races of the season.
Could Martinsville be the site of his first 2025 win? Based on how he can in the Xfinity Series here last year, it's certainly possible, as Smith finished third in both races and led a total of 37 laps across the two events.
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Grant Enfinger - $9.8K
While I don't think Grant Enfinger has the juice to dominate here like the drivers in the previous section, he should still be in for a solid result on Friday and is a nice pivot if you think those drivers will be too chalk.
Enfinger won here in 2020, but his results in this No. 9 truck have been hit or miss, as he was just 22nd in this race one year ago but came back in the fall to finish a strong ninth.
Tyler Ankrum - $8.8K
After struggling a bit at Martinsville early in his career, Tyler Ankrum now has top 10s in three of his past four starts at the track, including a fifth-place finish in this spring race last season.
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— NASCAR Insights (@NASCARInsights) March 26, 2025
He was also very good on short tracks last year. Of his 12 top 10s in 2024, eight came on tracks that were one mile long or shorter. He still needs to pick up the pace elsewhere, but Ankrum has short tracks figured out.
Ben Rhodes - $8.3K
It's a disappointing start to the year for Ben Rhodes, as the two-time champion sits 11th in points with an average finish of 18.5. Martinsville will be a good spot for Rhodes to get back on track, though, as he finished second here last year.
Stewart Friesen - $8.0K
Stewart Friesen's strong start to 2025 might be the most impressive thing in the Truck Series this year. The veteran driver was rumored late in the season last year to be in danger of losing this ride. Instead, he sits fifth in points.
He'll look to build on that at Martinsville, a track where he had five top 10s, including a 10th-place finish last fall. He's won a pole here before and has led laps in 25 percent of his starts at the track.
NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Value Picks
Rajah Caruth - $7.7K
Rajah Caruth was seventh in this race last year, then just 31st in the fall race. He has one top 10 in 2025 with an average finish of just 22.0, but he has the talent to turn that around. Consider him a boom-or-bust play.
Giovanni Ruggiero - $7.2K
It doesn't feel like Gio Ruggiero's DFS salary is keeping up with his early production. The rookie has been fairly impressive so far, posting an average finish of 14.3 and sitting 13th in points. Homestead last week was the first time he'd finished outside the top 15, as the car was involved in a crash right at the start of the race.
Jake Garcia - $6.9K
I feel like a broken record with Jake Garcia, as I keep saying he's a better driver than his results have shown. After a 2024 season where I kept getting proved wrong on that, I actually have hope that I'm right in 2025.
That's because Garcia has already tied his top 10 number from 2024, and his average finish of 13.5 is a significant early improvement from last year's 19.2. There's still time for things to fall apart, but Garcia looks like a borderline top-10 guy but is still being priced like a back-end driver.
Lawless Alan - $6.3K
Normally, I'd see the name Lawless Alan and it would be an auto-fade, but he's in probably the best equipment he's ever been in, the Tricon Garage No. 1 truck.
Truck Martinsville Entry List Notes:
35 Trucks for 36 Spots (NO DNQs)
#1 Is Lawless Alan
#2 Is Cody Dennison
#6 Is Norm Benning
#07 Is William Byron
#7 Is Corey Day
#22 Is Alan Waller
#44 Is Matthew Gould
#66 Is Luke Baldwin
#67 Is Ryan Roulette
#84 Is Patrick Starpoli— Colby Evans (@StartAndParkCar) March 24, 2025
Still, this will depend a lot on where Alan starts. I can't trust him if he starts in the top 15 because his poor track record suggests he won't be able to get too good of a run out of this truck. This is definitely a "wait and see" play — if Alan starts outside the top 20, I'll play him because of the strength of this truck.
Luke Baldwin - $6.2K
There's some risk here since Luke Baldwin is making his Truck Series debut, but the 18-year-old has Whelen Modified Tour experience at Martinsville, finishing seventh here last year. He's in a strong Thorsport truck for his first race.
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